Leila Palizi's Blog

Hello fellow Hoosiers, past, present, and future! My name is Leila Palizi and I am a junior at IU. In order to keep things as concise and interesting as possible (which is unlikely, given that I like to write a lot), I present to you this list of essential facts about me and my time at IU so far: 1)...

              Let’s take a moment and backtrack. So midterm season is (thankfully) over. Homecoming, Halloween, IUDM… yeah, they left nearly as quickly as they came. So what’s left now? A slight sliver of a (much more optimistically tinged than last year) football season, a week off for Thanksgiving...

I remember quite clearly the first time I started to miss Bloomington after being away from it for a somewhat extended period of time. It was freshman year, and first semester had just drawn to a close. I had gone from knowing virtually no one and battling a semester of homesickness, learning to...

            As a college student, you are pretty darn busy. With classes, social life, extracurriculars, and studies comprising most of your schedule, there’s not much time to sleep, much less focus on staying fit. However, you don’t have to completely sacrifice your time for hours spent at the gym...

I see a lot of posts on WeAreIU about dorms and dorm life, so I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon. With move-in just three short weeks away, it's really hard for me to think of anything other than the fact that I'm going to be back in my favorite place in the world very, very soon. Here's a quick...

  A recent article in the New York Times regarding the ever-growing competitive nature of sorority recruitment highlights IU's recruitment as one of the toughest in the country. And this got me thinking... a lot of girls face dissapointment during recruitment and ultimately end up giving up on their...

Hello, future students! So I know that right now you're probably just about to burst with excitement over the fact that in about one month, you will begin your college journey at IU. (I definitely was 2 years ago at this time!) But I also know that you're probably feeling a litte bit nervous and...

Rather than dull you with paragraphs upon paragraphs detailing the trials and tribulations of my freshman year of college, I thought I'd spare you all and go with a list format instead. Fun to write, fun to read, and a lot more concise, too. Enjoy!  1.     If you don’t get along with your roommate,...

It's that time of the year again when admissions decisions are in full swing and my news feed is suddenly filed with an influx of status updates from proud high school seniors proclaiming acceptance to their colleges of choice. Watching their excessive use of caps lock and exclamation points in...