Last Saturday, I went with two of my friends to fulfill another 4-year-long dream: attend a Pao Bhangra performance. Hosted by Cornell Bhangra, it is the largest Bhangra exhibition in North America, pulling teams from all over the country to perform at Barton. This year, NYU, USC, and a few other DC-area teams visited Ithaca. [...]
April 2009
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Our final stop on our epic 2-week Europe extravaganza: Rome. As you may have read in Tim’s blog, Cornell has an amazing Architecture, Art, and Planning program in Rome. I stayed with my good friend Jess, a Urban and Regional Students major. Knowing that we had a few hours less in a more intimidating city, [...]
April 20, 2009
#14. Listen to a full chimes concert from the clock tower and guess the songs played.
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Ah, yes, the Big Red Ambition. I remember opening the Daily Sun my freshman year to a page long list of 161 things every Cornellian must do before departing the Hill. With feats as simple as eating pizza at the Nines (#96) to a little more daring (#36. Dress up and view the Rocky Horror [...]
April 15, 2009
“Hiking” around Taughannock
Posted by jl587 under Family and Friends, On Campus, Vacays and Travel | Tags: Cayuga Lake, Hiking, Ithaca, New York, State Park, Taughannock Falls |[4] Comments
In a scramble to partake in everything Ithaca has to offer, Katy and I trekked over to Taughannock Falls State Park last Saturday for a leisurely hike. With a 215 feet drop, the falls is taller than Niagara Falls, and is one of the highest drops east of the Rockies, not to mention a stone’s [...]
April 13, 2009
Firenze and the Tuscan Sun
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A lost in translation moment: From the Florence airport, Sarah and I took a 15 minute taxi ride to our hostel, a small apartment 30 seconds from the Uffizi Gallery, a five minute walk to the Duomo. The hostel was cash only, so when we checked in, we used up all of our cash and [...]
April 7, 2009
Lucky strikes: Girl Talk at Cornell
Posted by jl587 under Entertainment, Family and Friends, On Campus | Tags: Cornell, Cornell Concert Commission, Dance Party, Girl Talk, Ithaca, Mash-up |[2] Comments
After a whirlwind trip to Europe-more updates to come over the next week-I arrived in Ithaca at 6 pm last Sunday. Completely dazed and jetlagged, I had completely forgotten (rather, wrongly assumed) that Girl Talk, the mash-up DJ sensation, was set to perform in Barton Hall at 7 pm. A friend welcomes me home…and offers [...]
April 7, 2009
Barcelona: Beaches and Gaudi
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Sarah and I capped off an amazing first leg of our trip in the metropolitan and beautiful Barcelona. It was a challenge for both of us to relax and soak up the vacation time, since both of us are very uptight and punctual/scheduled people. Our phrase for the entire trip: where’s the fire? There was no [...]
April 6, 2009
Sorry for the brief hiatus: I just came back from a 12-day European trip with my friend Sarah. More details to come.