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University of Virginia: We are a community with quirks, both in language and in traditions. What is one of your quirks?

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University of Virginia: We are a community with quirks, both in language and in traditions. What is one of your quirks?

In the obscurity of Word documents, PDFs and PowerPoints on my desktop, vivid squares with bullet points of things to-do contrast the chaos. My whole life is on my notes app by day, deadlines, and activities, keeping me organized and my desktop colorful, undoubtedly, the most used app on my computer.

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