At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

As students at The George Washington University in downtown Washington, D.C., my classmates and I had the atypical college experience; we didn’t have a football team or expansive lawn on which to play frisbee, and most of the dorms consisted of former hotels and apartment buildings that the university acquired to house the burgeoning student [...]

I just received your most recent e-mail, in which you once again implored me to contribute to this fine institution of higher learning. What intrigued me about this particular e-mail, however, was that you asked me to donate money in order to support scholarships for athletes, including a basketball player named Travis who expressed a [...]

Too funny: ABC News Jon Garcia reports: Hundreds of cheering, screaming students from George Washington University in Washington DC streamed into the streets and down Pennsylvania Ave to chant and gloat out in front of the White House. The students, who’d gathered the University’s Marvin Center to watch election returns, said they decided to take [...]

Congratulations, George Washington University! We’re no longer the most expensive university in the United States! At a cost of $53,166, Sarah Lawrence College (uh, wherever that is?) has knocked GWU ($50,312) down to the #2 spot. And Jesus, over $50k a year to go to GWU? That makes the $36k rate from a few years [...]

PR damage control in full effect: GW Colonials everywhere, past and present, can rest assured that even though the Hippo may be an endangered species, it will be safe at GW. (I stole these photos off Facebook)

Administrators rebuffed reports this week that the University was phasing out its unofficial hippo mascot, saying it was never discussed by the senior administration and that the bookstore stopped ordering hippo apparel because of a “misunderstanding.” [...] “Counter to the implications of the story, there has been no high-level decision to do away with our [...]

No Democratic presidential candidate has won Virginia since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and Republican Party leaders say the selection of Ms. Palin has improved Mr. McCain’s chances of carrying the state. Even so, advances by Democrats over the last few years, including the elections of two successive governors and a United States senator, and [...]

Came across this story on DCist this morning. There was a fire in the dorm that I lived in while I was a sophomore at GWU. It wasn’t until I watched the news report that I realized that the location where the fire started was my former bedroom. The window A/C unit caught on fire, [...]

This past Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of the Watergate burglaries that subsequently led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon. I wasn’t alive in 1972 (and thank god for that, because life without cell phones, e-mail, google, and wikipedia must have been downright boring!) but the Watergate burglaries hold a special place in this [...]

The best part of GW’s paper, The Hatchet, has always been the crime log. The latest issue certainly does not disappoint: Disorderly Conduct 10/1 – Hall on Virginia Avenue – 1:50 a.m. – case closed A student entered the lobby of the dormitory and began to yell at the officer stationed at the front desk [...]