Candid at Cornell

There are a few rather important, pivotal decisions that all undergraduates must make at some point in their college career.  Among them: Your major Your housing Your on-campus job (if you feel the need for one) Whether to say “bless you” when the stranger studying next to you in the library sneezes. (I still haven’t [...]

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There is a problem I must address with this blog–now. Let’s face it, folks: I’m too happy-go-lucky. If you’ve been reading my posts for a while, you know that I’ve been carrying a very positive tone. (Cases in point: the “Day in the Life of a Cornell Student” comic, and the “What Every Freshman Should Know” [...]

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This has been fun. The blogger Cullen has written about it, my boss Lisa mentioned during training that it would happen, and I envisioned it happening when I accepted the Life on the Hill job offer over a year ago. What am I talking about? Being recognized on campus as a blogger, of course! I [...]

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I am not a science person. I’ll say that off the bat. Okay, I’ll admit that I’ve had a blast fulfilling my Arts and Sciences science requirements with classes on insects and astronomy…but let me just make it clear that I much prefer the humanities. (Debating over dissecting, Marx over Mendel, GDP over gymnosperms…however you [...]

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