sometimes i think that the world’s too small now. historically, people have always wanted to discover, to explore.  it’s why today we love star wars or lord of the rings or doctor who or a million other stories about rich new worlds. we want to say, “i don’t what that is, but i’d like to go find out,” and it’s hard to do that now when google maps makes finding someplace in the remote french countryside as easy as finding your friend’s house. the blurb for this week’s saturday rose event mentioned hidden rooms, secret tunnels, and sushi (question: what has two thumbs and loves sushi?), so the micro-adventurer in me was pretty excited. first, our group listened to a bit of history on the founding of cornell university. i’m not usually the biggest history buff, but i did really enjoy finding out that ezra cornell only had a third grader’s education. i think there’s a lot to be said for a man who, with very little formal study of his own, dedicates his legacy to advancing the education of others. next we went to noyes, and found out about the different facets of its fitness center, which wasn’t really of much interest to me, apart from the revelation that their are free massages every other thursday. (question: what has two thumbs and a lot of tension in the shoulders?) next we saw the world war one memorial, and i leaned a little about the quill and dagger society, which i’d never heard of before. cool name, incidentally. after that garrick took us to becker and vented about his pet peeve of domino’s pizza delivery men/women driving through west campus. he’s having a gate installed to prevent this, despite the glaring issue that domino’s pizza delivery men/women will no longer be able to drive to west campus and bring me pizza. this segued into garrick’s explanation of how the food in rose dining gets to rose dining. en lieu of a helicopter based delivery system, cornell has built a series of tunnels under west campus to transport meals without big trucks driving through the dorms. i love getting lost places, so i had a blast walking around in the slightly labyrinthian-feeling passages. especially when i learned we can access those tunnels anytime we want; i’ll probably wander back there periodically for the rest of the year while i procrastinate assignments. finally, garrick and his wife were nice enough to open their home us and provide us with sushi, and an opportunity to interact with their superfluously cute dog. i had a great time, and would rate my experience 10/10 and would happily recommend it to a top ten friend.