Archive for September, 2007

Lester Holt was Wrong!

And I predicted it! And, to top it off, I was there in person to see just how wrong he was. Lester Holt, as mentioned in my previous blog, had said that the Washington Redskins would be 3-0 after this past weekend because they were playing the Giants. Turned out his statement was just an [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 26, 2007 at2:56 pm Comments (0)

Meeting some Big Wigs

This week has been pretty eventful and that’s not including the schools of thought paper I have to write by Monday and the Giants-Redskins game I’m going to on Sunday. On Wednesday night, the Partnership for Public Service (the place where I intern) put on a black-tie gala that awards the nation’s top public servants. [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 21, 2007 at2:11 pm Comments (4)

National Gallery of Art via Anti-War Protest

Today was the first of five art tours given to Cornell students in Washington by the art historian at the National Gallery of Art and Cornell professor, Eric Denker. The tour lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes and covered five paintings, but changed the way the 20+ people that went will ever look at an [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 15, 2007 at7:31 pm Comments (3)

Kickoff Weekend

I write this post out of sheer loyalty despite the fact that the season for the Giants looks ruined from the outset though there’s always hope. I shall however stray away from what happened this past weekend as there is no need to dwell on it and focus on what the Giants did the week [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 12, 2007 at5:53 pm Comments (1)

The Most Powerful House of the Most Powerful Branch in the Government

Yesterday marked only my second class of History of the Senate taught by Dr. Betty Koed and I know it will be one of my favorite classes at Cornell. Out of Dr. Koed’s mouth spews loads of information that I wish I could absorb all of it but am relegated to the fact that unlike [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 5, 2007 at5:31 pm Comments (1)

A Baseball Game at RFK

Friday night in Washington, DC – What did I do? Being the sports fan that I am, I decided to complete the 4th installment of the 32 part series, “Better Know a Ballpark” in which I visit all 32 baseball stadiums sometime during my life just like Stephen Colbert interviews all 400+ Congressmen/women in the United States [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on September 2, 2007 at10:39 pm Comments (0)