Archive for November, 2007

The Best Sporting Event I Went to…

…wasn’t the Giants-Redskins at FedEx Field this past September, nor the Giants-Chargers iceball game back in the 90′s when my sister got pelted with an iceball, nor the two Nets playoff games against the Pacers, not even my high school’s state championship hockey victory over Christian Brothers Academy at what was then Continental Airlines Arena [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 26, 2007 at7:41 pm Comments (0)

Edward Hopper’s World

It was fortunate timing that a travelling exhibit of most of Edward Hopper’s oil and watercolor paintings and sketches were on display at the National Gallery of Art during the time of my stay here in DC. I really do enjoy Hopper’s style and the basis for his paintings, but must confess I did not [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 20, 2007 at12:06 pm Comments (1)

Q & A with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Cornell alum and Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Ginsburg sat down and talked with students from three different colleges this past Friday at the Supreme Court. I was lucky enough to be one of the 20 or so Cornell students who attended the discussion with her. Students from Hamilton College and American University were also in [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 18, 2007 at5:52 pm Comments (1)

A Federal Career Fair – United States Postal Service Style

My internship gave me the assignment of reporting back to them on the United States Postal Service Career Fair (USPS) and writing up a piece on it for their web-site. I thought it would be interesting to share my observations. When a college graduate or prospective employee thinks about working for the USPS, the first [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 14, 2007 at5:09 pm Comments (0)

A Supreme Visit

This morning Cornell students, who chose to, attended a Supreme Court hearing. We were given tickets by Justice Ginsberg (a Cornell alum) letting us bypass the line into the Supreme Court building and sitting in seats reserved for the Justices’ “honorable guests”. Pretty cool. The oral argument was on some contract between Mattel Inc (the [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 7, 2007 at2:32 pm Comments (0)

A Business Trip to Capitol Hill

Today, as part of my internship, I ventured up to the US Capitol Building with my boss to attend a briefing on human capital practices in the Intelligence Community, which includes the FBI, CIA, Dept. of Justice, etc. The briefing was led by Ron Sanders, a person many consider to be the premiere human capital [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 6, 2007 at4:47 pm Comments (1)

What is the Building next to the Watergate Hotel?

Answer: The Kennedy Center. On Thursday night about 20 Cornell in Washington students took a trip to the Kennedy Center to listen to the National Symphony perform Beethoven’s Overtures to Egmont and Coriolan as well as his Concerto in D Major and Symphony No. 5, which I, as well as many other people, know only [...]

Published in: Junior Year - I'm Getting Old on November 4, 2007 at4:30 pm Comments (0)