Jenni Warne hurries to finish up her 161 List by tackling five items in a week.

This week, Jenni Warne tackles #146 on the 161 List ... CourseEnroll (aka: the horrible 7 a.m. race to claim classes). 

Completing, or attempting to complete, the Big Red Ambition list requires sacrifices. In the case of #86: Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza, you’re allowing for the potential loss of your car — or in the case of my driving skills, the near certain loss of your car. Perhaps this is why I can’t find a single person to joyride down the slope with me.

In high school, I went on a spur-of-the-moment trip with my friend to a store called Lover’s Package. It was like a was like an adult Toys “R” Us  — the store advertised on TV, did promotions on the radio, used colorful glossy signage, and had 20 different locations. Since everything felt so sterile and organized, going into the store was an extremely odd experience.

I am, as one of my roommates aptly stated once, always up for a good outing. In Ithaca, this usually means that I am the first one to volunteer to run errands (especially when it directly conflicts with cleaning my apartment), and that I am constantly bugging my friends to go out to dinner. Last Saturday, however, I decided to take a slightly longer excursion to Greek Peak (#147) for the day.

I had never been skiing on the East Coast before, and when I told various friends and family members of my plans, their opinions of Central New York slopes ranged from “much colder than you’re used to” to “completely worthless … you may as well ski down your icy driveway.” Skiing, of course, is one of the many things that the West Coast simply does better, and Greek Peak is hardly the crème de la crème of eastern mountains. Needless to say, my expectations for the day were rather low.

On the first day of each semester, I can walk into all of my classes and put them into one of two categories — those in which I feel I know everyone and those in which I feel I know no one. Sophomore year, I looked around AEM 240: Marketing and knew the names of every single person within eyesight.

Items #80-83 on the Big Red Ambition list offer an itinerary for Sunday through Wednesday nights. Still reveling in my second semester senior status, I set out last week to accomplish these four tasks in as many days.

As I begin the final semester of my Cornell career, the imminence of the dreaded G-word is becoming impossible to ignore. Since I have just four short months left to complete the unchecked items on my personal Big Red Ambition list, I’ve come to terms with the reality that there are some things on the list I’ll never do.

There seems to be a recurring problem here on campus in classifying whether hours in the middle of the night belong to the previous evening or the next morning. This might sound like a trivial thing that any Cornell student should be able to grasp, but my experiences suggest otherwise.

This year, Cornell made the somewhat puzzling choice of scheduling Parents’ Weekend to coincide with Halloween. Obviously, whoever it is that makes those sort of decisions has more to consider than students’ drinking schedules, but seriously?! It’s the one weekend when everyone, even that quadruple-major engineer who hasn’t left his room all semester, goes out.