I prefer to get my news from more credible sources than Comedy Central, so I wasn’t peeing my pants like Alex when rumors of a Stephen Colbert Cornell visit surfaced. Accordingly, I wasn’t planning on going to see Colbert when he came to speak in Barton Hall on Friday, but I was offered baller seats [...]
I never posted about homecoming– here’s what went down: I woke up at 10 am and tailgated with my sisters, wandered up to the hotelie tailgate full of amazing hotelie-made food and enjoyed menu selections such as turkey-cranberry-bleu cheese paninis, lovely mac and cheese and pretty decent chili (any woman who has ever lived in [...]
Since turning 21, I feel like I’ve gained roughly 500 pounds of straight-up booze weight. And if it’s not the bars that are doing this to me, it’s all the vino I drink (and love and then go out and buy) in Wines class. Or the fact that my friends and I sometimes go sit [...]
Despite being a tourguide, a blogger, a Daily Sun columnist and a Cornell spiritwear fashionista, I don’t adore any and all things Cornell. In fact, many traditions beloved by most Cornellians don’t fly with me. For instance, a capella? Hate it. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that I’d prefer [...]
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My name is Jenna and I’m a senior Hotel Administration major (you know you’re jealous). I came here from Plano, TX, a huge suburb of Dallas where the high school football teams and the retail shopping experiences are top-notch. I graduated in 2004 from Plano West Senior High, a two-year public high school with around 1800 students. I’m now in Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration where the entire school is smaller than my graduating senior class, but I like it that way. Although we’re allowed to concentrate in specific areas within the Hotel Administration major– Finance or Food and Beverage, for example– I sort of spent the last 3 years dabbling in everything from culinary arts to hotel design to information systems. I’m thinking that I’d like to go into some sort of industry-related writing; maybe, like, travel magazine writing?
I’m just getting started on my senior year and could not be happier (or busier, really). I work as a Cornell tour guide, answering the phone for 254-INFO, working in the traffic/visitor information booths around campus, and writing back to those emails you send to info@cornell.edu. True to my Southern roots, I’m a member of a sorority, Kappa Delta, and lived in the house with 35 of my sisters sophomore year. I’m involved in various hotelie clubs and worked as a function manager for Hotel Ezra Cornell, a weekend-long event where hotelies take over the Statler Hotel and showcase their talents to hundreds of guests who just happen to be the most influential leaders in the global hospitality industry. In 2007-2008, I take over as the executive director of the Vagina Monologues as part of the nationwide V-Day movement to stop violence against women. Freshman year, I played clarinet in the Cornell Wind Ensemble, bass clarinet in the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, and a little bit of both in the Cornell Chamber Orchestra. I served as Director of Tours for the Hotel School and am now the president of the Hotel School Ambassadors, the group of fabulous hotelies that give tours to prospective students and act as mentors to newly admitted freshmen. Also, I am one of the founding members of the Hotel School Student Advisory Board, a group of SHA students who meet with academic deans to discuss curriculum and other things that will help continuously improve our fabulous school. On top of all that, I had a column in the Cornell Daily Sun junior year (called “Fast Times at Statler High”) and remain on the Sun Op-Ed Board my senior year. I am also an editor of a news blog run by an outside firm, as well as a writer at Hotelchatter.com. Plus, I go out on the weekends… really, I do have a life. Kind of.
This year’s mission: find a job or get into grad school. And, um, graduate.
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