I think I related to the protagonist, Daniel Blake, even though my problems are nowhere similar to what he faced. Every student at Cornell goes through a cycle of stress at some point of the other. And unfortunately (or fortunately) those days are the ones that I find myself bonding the most with people. It’s the adversity that brings people together and not the non-existent bright sunny days of Ithaca. The protagonist too connects with the single mingle over the hardships either of them faced. And both of them lift either of them together when things didn’t go the right way. That’s what I think my student life has been as well. I have been fortunate to have my friends there at my lowest and I strive to be with them when they need me.