Bringing Shakespeare into the high school classroom has its many pitfalls, but professor Melanie Blood of the theater department and Geneseo theater students have bridged the gap between the Bard and the bored.

I wake up to the sound of crashing waves and for once it's not another guy in the dorm passing his garbage plate and Genny. It's the sound of breakers hitting the shore of Conesus Lake, which is just a short drive up route 20A from campus.

Your roommate is watching a "Trailer Park Boys" boxed set, a guy is baring his soul to his cell phone in the common room and you have a final in the morning. The simple fix? Go to a classroom. It's quiet, there's a board to write notes on and there's plenty of space for you to spread out in … until the building closes.

Read any comment feed on any religious news article and you'll see all belief and non-belief systems unite in a common spirit of disrespect and abominable spelling.

Senior Alex Spinello compares his sleep deprivation to the movie Fight Club. "Not that I'm turning into Tyler Durden, but sometimes I do feel like somebody else," he says.

"Wanna see some cancer?" junior Greg Roloff asked as he focused his microscope. For most, this is a new and unsettling experience, but Roloff knows what he's doing.

Maybe it's because her father died when she was three and she had to watch her mother service various households to sustain the family, or maybe it was having six kids. Maybe it's just her nature, and maybe it doesn't matter.

To Catherine Lathron, nothing that has happened since 1915 is really a big deal. Again and again she said she "thought nothing of it." But the scenes she remembers from her life are those that we understand only through books and The History Channel – and they seem like a big deal.

Ted Simpson was sitting down when I met him. It wasn't until we were through a third of our interview that he mentioned, casually, that he had lost both his legs to diabetes. He said it like I might say that I misplaced my toothbrush. Inconvenient, but hey, life goes on.

Geneseo students often say they enjoy the college's small size because of the relationships they build with faculty and the sense of a closely-woven community – now they can add to that list being the flagship for a burgeoning social retail website. College Town Traders recently selected Geneseo to be one of two schools nationwide to launch its new web design in spring 2011.

I have often marveled over the prospect of speaking fluent French at a Parisian café. I would wear a scarf and I would have a mustache. My half of the conversation, translated humbly into English, would go like this: “Hello! Yes, red, blue, yellow. One, two, three, four, five. Snails, but cheese. Why not? What! Goodbye! Rooster.”

Jim Young, 94, and Lorna Rossinow, 88, laugh when they talk about their relationship.

Bruce Jordan '66 puts his pants on one leg at a time. But once they're on, he writes world-renowned plays. He went to Geneseo and walked the same paths we do. Now, he and his partner Marilyn Abrams own the world rights to "Shear Madness," the longest running American play in history.

Charlotte Parmley, 87, remembers being taught in a one-room schoolhouse. Her mother was her first teacher.