Living Life with Carr-isma…

Who am I?

Hi everyone!  My name is Evan Carr, and I’m a senior at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration majoring in Marketing, Strategy, and Information Systems. 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, psychology, economics, and music (aside from hotels and restaurants of course — I am a Hotelie after all).

What stuff do I do?

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

• Resident Advisor (Emeritus): Probably the most time-consuming position I had.  As an RA, I was stationed on North Campus with first-years trying to help them get acclimated to Cornell life.  My main duties included programming, meetings, counseling, and anything else I could 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 was in the C/D-quad in the Townhouses.  Retired now, but the memories are fun to think about.
• Delta Phi (Llenroc): This is actually something that I 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.
• Gym-junkie: I spend a lot of time in Helen Newman Hall and Noyes 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.
• Psychology Research: Since the start of my junior year, I started fulfilling my long-unsatisfied interest in psychology by becoming a Research Assistant in the Emotion and Cognition Lab in the Cornell Human Development department.  Loved that, so I also joined the Personality, Attachment, and Control Lab in fall 2010 in the Cornell Psychology department doing behavioral research and EEGs.  The stuff is pretty cool, and it has played a major role in motivating me to apply to PhD programs.

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 3347 — Consumer Behavior
• HADM 3374 — Fundamentals of Database Management
• HADM 4449 — Integrated Marketing Communications
• HD 4010 — Empirical Research

Fall 2010:

• HADM 3301 — Service Operations Management
• HADM 4441 — Strategic Management
• HD 4010 — Empirical Research
• PSYCH 1101 — Introduction to Psychology
• PSYCH 3800 — Social Cognition
• PSYCH 4700 — Undergraduate Research in Psychology

Spring 2011:

• HADM 3355 — Hospitality Facilities Management
• NS 3740 — Human Growth and Development:  Biological and Behavioral Interactions
• PSYCH 3250 — Adult Psychopathology
• PSYCH 3850 — Psychology of Emotion
• PSYCH 4700 — Undergraduate Research in Psychology

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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!