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Since the latest installment in the “Grand Theft Auto” series, “Grand Theft Auto IV,” was released on Tuesday, it has gotten

Miley Cyrus, put some clothes on. Seriously. I think we all put up with you bopping around in obnoxiously sequined teeny garb with ultra-teased, bottle-blond faux follicles. Do you really need to be posing half-naked in Vanity Fair?

As you get older, there are many ages of your life that are considered milestones.

• 13: Your first year as a teenager
• 16: It is finally possible for you to get your license and cruise around without your parents!
• 17: No curfew, so stay out as late as you want
• 18: Legal adulthood!

Recently an e-mail was sent out to the student body containing a summary of a speech Bill Gates allegedly gave to a public high school in regard to how to succeed in life.

As we rush into the month of May, we find ourselves among a national testing craze. APs are right around the corner, the impending final exams are looming in the shadows, and the dreaded SAT exam is going down this Saturday. All around me, people are discussing SAT and ACT scores.

On Sunday the junior class traveled by charter bus to spend the day at Kings Island amusement park at Cedar Point, Ohio.

Dear Weather Dude,

I have lived in Champaign all 15 and 3/4 years of my life, and never have I seen such strange weather as I saw today.

Of course I know that in C-U the outside temperature changes more often than Britney Spears’ marital status, but come on.

First it was rain, then hail, then snow, and more rain … all within sixth period. And then the sun came out!

The day before the long weekend, I was given a handout by my French teacher. It was for an event, the Fete Fantastique Francophone, a campus event held from 7-10 p.m. on Saturday. Not only would people be speaking French, but proceeds go to benefit the Democratic Republic of Congo's Independence Festival in Chicago.

When a dog is lost, it can be returned home if it has a homing chip in it. The “lost dog” signs are torn down, and everything returns to normal.

When a child is lost there’s not always that guarantee. But what if there was a way there could be?

These days people seem to think that by slapping an "e-" or a "green" in front of something it automatically becomes environmentally friendly: e-homes, green toilet paper, and especially e-food, the exceptions of course being e-cards and Green Day, neither of which is particularly beneficial to, well, anything.

If you cheated your way through every test, homework assignment, interview, quiz, application, and essay and became the most succesful (enter your profession of choice here) in the world, would you really have achieved anything?

Everyone’s talking about it if they’re not talking on it. What is there not to talk about? It’s spiffy, it’s new, and it’s awesome. It’s Facebook Chat on Facebook!

Since the year is drawing to a close, I promised former Uni student Ishan Desai-Gellar that I would write at least one ridiculous "Hey look, I'm Jewish!" blog entry in my first year here at the OG.

I would consider myself a fairly good student. I may not understand everything in class and I may ask quite a few questions, but when it comes time to focus, take notes, and do my homework I feel like I tend to be on top of things.