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the hotelie life

Academics

My Spring ‘07 class schedule, all of these required for my degree:

  • Service Operations Management
  • Hospitality Facilities Design
  • Restaurant Management
  • Restaurant Management Lab (working in the restaurant yayy)
  • Managerial Communications II
  • Finance (some sort of finance that is required and apparently different from the ones I took before)
    …yes, such is the life of a hotelie. But really, these classes are challenging and I’m looking forward to them.

    Also, here are the classes I’ve taken over my 2 years here (*=required for hotelies):

    • Deans Distinguished Lecture Series*
    • Organizational Behavior and Interpersonal Skills*
    • Microeconomics for the Service Industry*
    • Managerial Communication I*
    • Microcomputing*
    • Wind Ensemble
    • Cornell Symphony Orchestra
    • The Anthropology of Food and Cuisine (College of Arts and Sciences)
    • Freshman Writing Seminar** (College of Arts & Sciernces, see below)
    • Introduction to Hotel Operations*
    • Introduction to Foodservice Operations*
    • Financial Accounting*
    • Hospitality Quantitative Analysis*
    • Human Resources Management*
    • Finance*
    • Marketing Management for the Service Industry*
    • Information Systems Management*
    • Inventing an Information Society (College of Engineering)
    • Managerial Accounting*
    • Culinary Theory and Practice*
    • Culinary Theory and Practice- Cooking Lab*
    • Hospitality Development and Planning*
    • Advanced Business Modeling (intensive MS Excel course)
    • Spa Management
    • Hospitality & Business Law
    • Service Operations Management
    • Special Events & Catering
    • Seminar in Culture and Cuisines
    • Culture & Cuisines Culinary Lab

    **= most freshman at Cornell, regardless of college or AP scores, are required to take two first-year writing seminars (hotelies are one exception and only have to take one of these seminars). These courses are capped at 17 students and are a made up of students from all different colleges at Cornell. You can choose from hundreds of topics and you will definitely find one that interests you…and if you don’t, well, you can always take the writing seminar called “Portraits of the Self” and write about… yourself.

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More than you ever needed to know.

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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