Daphne Cunningham Diaries, UA Digital Collection

With school, extracurricular activities, work and countless other tasks that fill my days as a college student, it's hard to find time to even breathe. Now add a social life on top of all that and it is enough to make me feel like I couldn't possibly do anything else without simultaneously combusting.

Even though I might feel like I am the busiest person on the planet, countless other college students could easily compete for the same title.

But we aren't the only generation of college students with seemingly too much on our plates. The college life has been like this for decades.

And you're asking, "How do you know?" Well it just so happens I recently came across the diary of a college student by the name of Daphne Cunningham in the UA Libraries' Digital collection. A 1916 University of Alabama graduate and member of Kappa Delta sorority, Cunningham's diary provides an interesting view of college life in the early twentieth century.

Daphne Cunningham provided detailed entries of her time spent studying, going on dates and attending parties. Below is an image scan of one of Cunningham's diary entries.

As you can see, Daphne Cunningham was as busy as any college student today. And her dating life was much more extensive than mine has been...ever.

By reading the diary of Daphne Cunningham, we can learn more about the University of Alabama that she attended.

Publix Grand Opening

Bad weather and a stormy economy didn't stop eager shoppers from attending the grand opening of a new Publix at 6:45 this morning. The Publix is located in the Capital Market Center off Alabama Highway 69 South and Southview Lane.

With the current economic crisis, the new Publix might offer some much needed economic relief to the community of Tuscaloosa as well as additional competition to other grocery stores in the area. Winn Dixie and Food World are both already in the city limits.

Mayor Walt Maddox said the Publix alone would generate an estimated $13 million a year in sales its first year, which would translate to $260,000 in city sales tax and $65,000 in revenue from the countywide sales tax.

"Grocery stores are the most stable producers of sales tax," Maddox told The Tuscaloosa News in an earlier interview. "People don't quit buying groceries."

However, if Publix takes away business from the other supermarkets, the city's sales tax revenue would actually go down.

The Tuscaloosa opening was at the top of the Publix Supermarkets corporate Web site.

Ken Hunt, Publix store manager, spoke to the crowd at the ribbon cutting ceremony, which took place inside due to inclement weather.

"Me and my management staff and all of out associated here are here to take care of all of you," said Hunt. "We want to be the best store in town."