The New York Times wrote a lovely article about the Cornell Men’s Basketball Team a few weeks ago. The team is so close to clinching the Ivy Title, the first time in 20 years that a non-Penn or non-Princeton team has done so. This Friday, the undefeated Big Red will take on Dartmouth and Harvard, [...]
February 2008
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February 28, 2008
February 26, 2008
I used to be a huge coffee drinker. I would need a cup o’ joe every morning before I could humanely interact with others. How do I take my coffee? Black. I blame it on my mom for introducing me to the dizzying wonders of black coffee. Be forewarned: don’t have black coffee as your [...]
February 20, 2008
History 314: American Foreign Policy WWI-Present Up until now, I’ve always been scared to take history classes, just because the first thing that comes to mind is the amount of reading. Because we are looking at events in retrospect, there is a lot of micro-analyzing and counterfactuals. And everyone has an opinion on why certain [...]
February 14, 2008
Valentine’s Day: don’t love it, don’t hate it either. Since I’ve never really had a significant other and I don’t know what true love is, Valentine’s Day is still something very elementary school to me. I go through the motions, wear something within the color range of deep burgundy-hot pink (I have a rose-colored sweater [...]
February 10, 2008
The search for the summer internship.
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Everyone who is majoring in a business/economics-related field is participating in the rat race to score a summer internship at an investment bank in New York City. Cornell’s Career Services Center is in charge of on-campus recruiting, organizing resume drops and interview schedules for investment banks. My goal was to get one offer for the [...]
February 6, 2008
Racking up the frequent flier miles.
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Last Friday was day 1 of my annual 2-day sorority conference, and as president, it’s an opportunity to network and learn more about KD. Rah Rah Sisterhood. This was going to be a long day, since I had 4 (count ‘em) connections: ITH-LGA-WLM-CHA-MEM. The moment I saw the weather outside though (similar conditions as my [...]
February 1, 2008
There are a lot of different greetings in the voice mailbox world, and while all serve the same purpose, I think that some are more interesting than others. Take, for example, the standard electronic greeting. Some nice lady informs you that “your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice messaging system” and then the [...]