Ivy Years

This will probably be my last blog post here. NEW (OLD) BLOG: www.ivy.phoebeyu.com Words cannot express the immense amount of gratitude I have for Cornell. Three years ago TO THE DAY, I arrived in Ithaca for the first time, having only before caught glimpses of the campus on glossy brochures, Google Maps, and friends’ Facebook [...]

When I was at Stanford for a conference last year, a student there explained the “Duck Syndrome” to me. Imagine a duck gliding gracefully on a calm lake. While everything seems to be smooth on the surface, underneath, the duck is paddling furiously. This, according to the student, symbolizes the culture at Stanford. There are [...]