25
February
2008
“Oh Mister Sun, Sun / Mister Golden Sun, / Please shine down on me” -Childhood Song
Heading home down the Slope this afternoon, I couldn’t help but close my eyes and bask in the 30 something degree gloriousness that is currently Cornell. During an otherwise somewhat sleepy Monday, a dude wearing shorts, Frisbee players on the Arts Quad and a little bit of Jack Johnson on the iPod provided hope that warmer days are on their way.
Granted, that will probably be in two months. Nevertheless, I cracked open a Crystal Light lemonade and dubbed today my midwinter summer afternoon. Bottoms up.
Posted: Cornellia
24
February
2008
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” -G. Randolf
I clocked about thirty hours last week at work and should have done just as many in the library with prelim season rolling into Ithaca. How do Cornell students ward off stress and seasonal affective disorder here? Well, we find a little help from our friends. In my case, I often rely on my roommates, Robyn, Sarah and Alex.
Living with a hotelie is always to your advantage. Case in point.
Yep, I pretty much have the most fabulous, beautiful, intelligent and down right awesome roommates ever (see above if you have any doubts). We all lived on the same hall freshman year, so props to the blind rooming process at CU. Sarah, Alex and Robyn are always willing to listen to a story, share a laugh or keep me in line. They even let me, the nerdy American Studies major, throw a Super Tuesday party a few weeks ago. This soirée featured yours truly dressed as “Super Tuesday Woman.” Now that’s roomie love.
Posted: A Day in the Life of, Cornellia, Senior Shenanigans
24
February
2008
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” -Melinda Gates
My friends and I have been checking out a great new class at the gym called Muscle Pump. According to my nutrition professor, weight baring exercise is especially important for women to keep strong bones. While everyone else is trying to work off the excess calories on the elliptical for Spring Break ‘08, we’ve been buffing up (ok, we’re no Arnolds . . . yet) and stocking up our calcium for the future.
We know Cornell women have to be strong to put up with all of the academic challenges, extracurriculars, stress and hills all of us find on this campus. In fact, Jamie Reed ‘01 has gotten so strong that she’ll be featured on American Gladiator. You go girl!
Posted: Senior Shenanigans
9
February
2008
“Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment.” -Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
As we all know, Newsweek named Cornell the Hottest Ivy last year. But life is not just all about earning a place on the Paris Hilton “That’s hot” list – brains matter too. No worries friends, as Forbes selected Ithaca as one of the smartest cities in the country.
I know some people are turned off my Cornell’s location; Ithaca seems like a small, strange hippie infested town that is “centrally isolated.”
However, I encourage everyone to give the ITH a second look. Not only does it offer a ton of awesome restaurants and cool cultural activities, those hippies are pretty friendly.
Ithaca has about 30,000 permanent residents and 30,000 college students (Cornell, Ithaca College and surrounding community colleges help make up that number). This truly makes it a smart and busy little place. And we’re within a few hours of pretty much every big city on the East Coast, with buses running several times each day to NYC.
Ithaca has encourage my love for tofu, provided some of the most awesome encounters with nature and taught me how to rock out to some good ol’ fashioned live music. Oh, and we’re beautiful and discussing Kierkegaard while doing it.
Posted: Cornellia
9
February
2008
“Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment.” -Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
As we all know, Newsweek named Cornell the Hottest Ivy last year. But life is not just all about earning a place on the Paris Hilton “That’s hot” list – brains matter too. No worries friends, as Forbes selected Ithaca as one of the smartest cities in the country.
I know some people are turned off my Cornell’s location; Ithaca seems like a small, strange hippie infested town that is “centrally isolated.”
However, I encourage everyone to give the ITH a second look. Not only does it offer a ton of awesome restaurants and cool cultural activities, those hippies are pretty friendly.
Ithaca has about 30,000 permanent residents and 30,000 college students (Cornell, Ithaca College and surrounding community colleges help make up that number). This truly makes it a smart and busy little place. And we’re within a few hours of pretty much every big city on the East Coast, with buses running several times each day to NYC.
Ithaca has encourage my love for tofu, provided some of the most awesome encounters with nature and taught me how to rock out to some good ol’ fashioned live music. Oh, and we’re beautiful and discussing Kierkegaard while doing it.
Posted: Cornellia
3
February
2008
“I’ll be cheering for Tom Petty tonight.” -Sarah
Since I’m from the Midwest, it pretty much goes without saying that football is a big deal. But if you aren’t interested in a win for the Patriots and the history books – or like my friend Sarah, more inspired by the halftime show – maybe you can at least cheer for Cornell. Root for the Giants, and you’ll be supporting Kevin Boothe ‘06 who plays for the special teams. May the best team win!
Posted: Cornellia
