The entire summer going into senior year was dedicated to doing anything I could to help get Barack Obama elected President of the United States. It was also a time in which I spent many hours in front of the tv watching Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, and the crying Brit Hume [...]
It’s almost as if I went to sleep and woke up 20 years later. For the first time in my Cornell career I got sick. This wasn’t the cough and need tissues sick. This was a stomach virus sick. Apparently it’s going around campus. From Tuesday night until early afternoon Saturday (though technically my stomach [...]
All those who are teachers or have family members who are teachers know that if you want to teach at a public school you need to past the PRAXIS test. Another one of those stupid tests created by the ETS. In order to teach high school/middle school social studies in North Carolina I needed a [...]
Cornell alum Ann Coulter made an appearance on Mike Huckabee’s show this past month. The topic of Cornell came up, and Mike Huckabee used his experience in Ithaca to give some praise to the university. Cornell was one of the most respectful audiences he had given a speech at is the rough paraphrase of his [...]
There are very few times in which a quiz/test/exam is bearable to study for. It’s even rarer to describe studying for a quiz as fun, but for my Politics of Violence in 20th Century Europe course, that’s exactly the description warranted for an upcoming geography quiz this Friday. It’s worth 10% of my grade and [...]
It would be hard to find a funnier episode of the Office than the one that aired after the Super Bowl last night, “Stress Relief”. The fully developed story lines, the one liners, and the extreme hilarity paralleled with serious, compassionate events made this episode one to remember. Lines like Andy’s, “The fire! It’s shooting [...]