Life is a series of uncertainties. When you think you have one thing figured out, circumstances come along that make you realize you've figured out nothing. You go to a university to learn how to make a living and realize, through a series of events, you haven't figured out your life at all. These experiences are common in the lives of college students - and if you haven't experienced it yet, rest assured, you will.As a graduate student, I have learned things I wish I had learned as an undergraduate. I don't mean in the area of academics but in the area of life.

Members of TCU's Athletics Academic Center staff said they want to ensure student-athletes are assimilated into the academic community.The staff's goal is to oversee that all athletes earn a degree, said Chris Uchacz, athletics academic director.

"We make sure athletes are enrolled in the right classes, passing and taking enough hours for their degree plans," Uchacz said.

Student-athletes have the same responsibilities as any other student, men's basketball coach Neil Dougherty said.

"They are just asked to play a sport as well," Dougherty said.

Almost all people can recall their mothers telling them to brush their teeth before going to sleep and to say "please" and "thank you" when applicable. But there seems to be one piece of motherly advice many people seem to forget - how to act in the restroom.I can't begin to count how many times I have witnessed someone leaving the restroom without visiting the sink before the door - not just students but faculty, too.

There is some simple bathroom etiquette everyone should follow.

Sitting at 7,160 undergraduates this year, the university was advised by the Board of Trustees to cap the total of undergraduates in an effort to protect the quality of education, said the vice chancellor for academic affairs.A plan to cap the undergraduate total at 7,200 for five years began last year and concerns the imbalance of too many students and not enough faculty across TCU's schools and colleges, said Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Today marks the beginning of the 2006 Wilson/ITA Men's and Women's Regional Championships hosted by TCU.This is the first time the regional tournament has been held in Fort Worth, said Ana Cetnik, senior captain of the women's team.

The women's team will play the Southwest region, which includes some of the top-ranked teams from 23 Division I-A schools such as UT, LSU and Baylor.

An amazing sense of curiosity, wit and vitality are what co-workers say characterize the TCU alumna who will host the new KERA 90.1 radio talk show "Think." Krys Boyd, who graduated in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in radio-TV-film and a minor in news-editorial journalism, begins hosting the show Nov. 6, said Steve Anderson, public relations manager for KERA.

"She really wants to know what the people she is interviewing have to say," said Anderson, who has worked with Boyd for five years.

The abduction of a University of Texas at Arlington student this week has no connection to a similar reported assault of a TCU student in late September, TCU and UTA police said Wednesday.According to police reports, the victims, both women, were taken into vehicles by two men. In the incident involving a TCU student, the victim said she voluntarily entered a sports utility vehicle before she was sexually assaulted. But the suspects in the two cases do not have the same physical description, said TCU Police Detective Kelly Ham.

Student films. Student newspapers. Student teaching. Student nurses.With more than 7,000 undergraduate students at TCU, the need to separate oneself from the pack is becoming more and more important.One...

A terminally-ill patient at the Hospice of the West said he wants to have college students come hang out and watch a Cowboys game with him, said a volunteer coordinator for the Hospice of the West.Students had the chance to volunteer for activities like this and other community service events through organizations represented at the Volunteer Fair held Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sadler Lawn.