Living Life with Carr-isma…

Who am I?

Hi everyone!  My name is Evan Carr, and I’m a sophomore at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. I’m originally from Vestal, New York, which is about an hour drive from my current home-base in Ithaca, and I graduated from Vestal Senior High School in 2007.

My interests at Cornell span a wide variety of things, but I especially like sports, fitness, government, and music (aside from hotels and restaurants of course — I am a hotelie after all).

Right now, I’m still trying to find my path at the Hotel School, but the areas I find most interesting so far have to do with law and restaurant/hotel development.  In time, I’ll hopefully refine those interests into a career — at the moment, I’m mostly thinking about going into the industry to pursue restaurants or taking a trip to law school.

What stuff do I do?

Mainly, I fill my time at Cornell with a few things …

• Resident Advisor: Probably the most time-consuming position I have.  As an RA, I’m stationed on North Campus with first-years trying to help them get acclimated to Cornell life.  My main duties include programming, meetings, counseling, and anything else I can do to help along someone on my floor.  In 2008-2009, I was in Court-Kay-Bauer on the fourth floor of Court Hall, and in 2009-2010, I will be in the C-quad in the Townhouses.
• Delta Phi (Llenroc): This is actually something that I just got involved with in the Spring 2009 semester, but it’s come to be the extracurricular that I spend a lot of time on.  The fraternity is stationed at 100 Cornell Avenue on West Campus (gorgeous house if I do say so myself), and it’s a great place to catch a little R&R with friends.
• Cornell Daily Sun: On and off since I became a freshman, I started writing for the sports section of the Sun.  So far, I have covered golf, crew, squash, track & field, and a bunch of other random sports that I wrote features on.  I’m just getting back into it recently after a semester-long hiatus; it’s a great way to get to know people and stay informed about Big Red sports!
• Gym-junkie: I spend a lot of time in Helen Newman Hall at the fitness center to get away from the Cornell academic hustle-and-bustle.  Usually for an hour or so almost every night, you can find me there putting off doing the work that I should be doing.

What courses have I taken?

So far at Cornell, I’ve dabbled in quite a few things …

Fall 2007:

• HADM 1110 – Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
• HADM 1115 – Organizational Behavior and Interpersonal Skills
• HADM 1141 — Microeconomics for the Service Industry
• HADM 1165 — Managerial Communication 1
• HADM 1174 — Business Computing
• HD 1150 – Introduction to Human Development

Spring 2008:

• HADM 1121 — Financial Accounting
• HADM 1105 — Introduction to Hotel Operations
• HADM 1106 — Introduction to Food Operations
• ASTRO 1102 — Our Solar System
• DSOC 1101 — Introduction to Development Sociology
• Freshman Writing Seminar — Individualism in American Literature

Fall 2008:

• HADM 1110 — Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
• HADM 2211 — Human Resource Management
• HADM 2221 — Managerial Accounting
• HADM 2236 — Culinary Theory and Practice
• HADM 2255 — Development and Planning
• HADM 2275 — Introduction to Information Systems Management

Spring 2009:

• HADM 2201 — Hospitality Quantitative Analysis
• HADM 2222 — Finance
• HADM 2243 — Marketing Management for Services
• ENGL 2810 — Creative Writing

Fall 2009:

• HADM 3321 — Hospitality Financial Management
• HADM 3343 — Marketing Research for Decision Makers
• HADM 3365 — Managerial Communication 2
• HADM 3387 — Business and Hospitality Law
• HD 4220 — Emotion and Cognition Research Lab

Spring 2010:

• HADM 3305 — Restaurant Management
• HADM 3385 — Business Law
• HADM 3386 — Insurance and Risk Management
• HADM 4417 — Hospitality Leadership
• HADM 4481 — Labor Relations in the Hospitality Industry

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I’m open to any comments, questions, advice, rants, or musings from anyone — just drop me a comment (or e-mail me at Ewc39@cornell.edu), and I’ll get back to you!