http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:29:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright, so this is waaay late, and most likely not many people will still be checking the blogs, but here it goes. After finals are finished, us graduating seniors have a period of time known as Senior Week,commencement on Memorial Day Weekend. This is sort of the pinnacle of our social ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/06/25/senior-week/ Well, I know I haven't been around much, but the blog has been active in its own sort of way. Check out some of the things I have been getting lately: First, me blogging about Vaseline in my hometown Boston.com http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/04/16/college_blogs_tell_it_like_it_is/ Next, this is a great email I received from someone in ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/05/16/cool-happenings/ Alright, so the reason I have been MIA for so long is I have been working on our final project for my HADM 429 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management class. There is no final exam and the majority of our semester grade is based on our performance on the ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/05/07/the-kaytoo-fund/ I guess I never actually posted about our Joint Sevices Ball. Each spring semester the ROTC students in the three services (Navy, Army, Air Force) get together for a large dinner and ball. Sadly, this was my last joint services ball but it was a good one. The speaker was ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/05/02/joint-services-ball/ This past weekend Psi U hosted our annual Parents' Weekend. This is always a fun weekend since we all get to see our parents but more importantly, we get to see other brothers' parents which is always good for a few laughs. My Mom came this year and got in ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/30/parents-weekend/ Anyone who is familiar with college lacrosse knows that the perennial powerhouses have always been: Syracuse and Princeton. But... not lately. There has been a new entrant into the "elite" college lacrosse programs - Cornell. For the past few years we have gotten better and better; consistently making post season ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/22/sweet-sweet-lax/ I am usually against what can sometimes become false sympathy or "hopping on the emotional bandwagon" in terms of some people's reactions to large scale tragedies. As a follow up to that, I am not going to try and explain how I feel or what can possibly be going on ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/19/in-memoriam/ So... last weekend the pledges finally finished their process and were initiated as brothers in the 26th pledge class since reactivation of the Chi chapter of Psi Upsilon. This may not mean a lot to many of you, but I can assure you it is one of the best days ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/19/initiation/ Every year a few seniors from the house hop in a big truck or SUV and drive all the way to Ohio and back in a day (6 or so hours each way.) The purpose - picking up a large quantity of a very hard to find and Psi U ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/18/the-run/ Wait! I'm not ready yet... Scary to think about, here is my yearbook photo and fake graduation gown photo. I did order my actual cap and gown the other day. Sorry I have been a bit short with my posts. Just wrapped up a 25+ hrs. project, which included very little sleep ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/ben/2007/04/12/graduation/