On Monday night I completed the last final exam of my undergraduate career — Introduction to Wines — and promptly found a fellow Sun editor outside the building. Our destination was the Regent Lounge in the Statler Hotel, right across the street from Barton Hall, where our 700-person class was taking the exam on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Academics'
When There’s Nothing Left To Do.
May 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Academics, Food, Photography, Spring 2010
Tags:Exams·Final Exams·Finals·Wine·Wines
The Personal Development Semester
February 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Academics
By the end of last semester, I had taken care of all of my major’s and college’s requirements, which left me with a senior spring that is relatively wide-open compared to past semesters. No more pesky courses in fields that have little to do with International Agriculture & Rural Development (I’m looking at you, physics…). [...]
Best Field Trip Ever?
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Academics, Photography, Winter Break 2009-2010
Somehow, after nearly 29 hours of travel from door to door, I was jet-lag free. It’s possible that we were so far away (10.5 time zones) that the effects of jet-lag somehow got cancelled out, but either way, I was feeling surprisingly normal. Two weeks traveling through southern India had flown by, but during the [...]
What are the Ethics of Getting Hungry While Studying the Ethics of Hunger?
December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Awesome People, Fall 2009
One down, two to go. On Thursday night I took my final exam for Food Policy for Developing Nations, a class that is on my list of all-time favorites at Cornell. Not only was the course material and structure great (case studies of real food policy issues abroad, presented briefly by teams of students and [...]
Thanksgiving, The North American Way.
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Fall 2008: Chile, Fall 2009, Food
My last Thanksgiving dinner featuring turkey was in 2007, during my sophomore year. Looking back, it seems like eons ago, but in the grand scheme of things it really hasn’t been too long. Last year, during my fall semester in Chile, I couldn’t take the day to just lounge around the house and later consume [...]
Tags:Chile·Thanksgiving
Prelim Season
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Fall 2009, Weather
I was wearing shorts last week, if I recall correctly. Ithaca was still basking in the seemingly endless sunshine that, in a normal year, would have ceased to exist after orientation week (or so it always seems…). Then came this week. The mercury plummeted and the skies turned grey; we won’t be making it out [...]
It’s All in the Nose.
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Fall 2009
Returning to the US last December after a semester in South America, I felt comfortable with my ability to converse in Spanish. I listened to podcasts and read the news in Spanish to retain as much as possible as I went through a semester and summer with little practice and no Spanish classes. Now, for [...]
It’s Back To Work We Go.
August 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Academics, Fall 2009
On Monday, I returned to resume life on the hill after a summer that included a heartbreaking lacrosse defeat, an engaging internship, a kayak crossing of Long Island Sound, and a cross-country road trip, among other things. Despite all of that excitement, I was ready to return to campus for my senior year. At this [...]
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Commence the Language Countdown.
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Spring 2009
Cornell, like nearly every institution of higher education, has been forced to make budget cuts across the board during these difficult economic times. Each cut has sparked a response from faculty/staff and students alike, but one that resonates especially powerfully with me is the University’s recent decision to eliminate Dutch, Swedish, and Turkish language courses, [...]
Tags:Academics·Budget Cuts·Economic Downturn·Foreign Language
Back to the Grind.
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Academics, Spring 2009, Weather
The Monday after spring break is one of the more obnoxious days of the academic year. Nearly everyone on campus has just spent a slightly less stressful week spread out across the globe. The stream of cars on Route 79 entering Ithaca on Sunday evening carries better-rested students whose sunburn still kind of hurts and [...]
Tags:Academics·Snow·Spring Break·Weather