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Skorton Advises January Graduates to Stay True to Their Alma Mater

Ben Eisen  —  Dec 23, 2008

Though the snow piled high on Saturday afternoon, blanketing the campus in white, 859 students inside Barton Hall bled Carnelian red as they walked across the stage during the Recognition Ceremony for January Graduates. Friends and family cheered them on as the students — many of whom finished their degrees early, late or from graduate school — received recognition for their milestones.

Of the graduates, 40 percent were earning graduate degrees and 19 percent of students came from outside the United States. All undergraduate and graduate schools were represented at the ceremony, with each school’s graduates wearing different colored tassels.

Leggo My Preggo

Shannan Scarselletta  —  Nov 24, 2008

Maybe it was the gooey saliva and snot bubbling from every facial orifice. Maybe it was the way she precariously hung over her tiny mother’s shoulder. Or maybe it was the fact that she had less regard for social boundaries than a Risley resident, and had been staring at me, reaching at my face for the entire subway ride. Whatever the reason, I was not about to lose a staring contest to someone who had nil control over her bowels. This was a pride thing.

My nemesis was dangling by one leg now, her diaper crunching as she inched closer to me, held from a 5-foot death fall by her mother’s haphazard grip on her baby cankle. I wondered if I could — or even would — catch her in time.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Josh Perlin  —  May 2, 2008

The e-mail was short: “Josh, me and you need to have a little chat. No problems, just want to talk.”

So, one night in Nov. 2005, I took a phone call. The voice on the other end was Chris Mascaro ’06, and he was offering me the opportunity of a lifetime.

What if you had the opportunity to go to every Cornell athletics event for free, home and away; receive an all-access pass and the best seats in the house to every event; meet and talk with all the players and coaches; befriend the staff and administration in and out of Athletics, at Cornell and other schools; chat with famous media personalities, coaches and athletes from around the country, in college, professional sports and beyond?

Would you take it?

"Middlemarch" for Movers and Shakers

Liam Berkowitz  —  Sep 22, 2009

Unless you’re an English or Comp Lit major, you’ve almost certainly never encountered George Eliot’s Middlemarch, a classic 19th-century novel that, some would argue, represents the apogee of Victorian-era literature.

In my experience, the English professors here have expressed a devotion to Middlemarch so ardent it borders on occult. Almost all of my professors have, at one point or another during the semester, abandoned their lecture notes and extemporaneously composed paeans to the novel. Frankly, it wouldn’t surprise me if the English faculty met fortnightly in a subterraneous lair beneath Goldwin Smith to don Victorian era habiliments, recite passages from the book and bow down before an effigy of George Eliot.

Dreaming in a Quarter Life Crisis

Elana Dahlager  —  Sep 1, 2009

Junior year is some heavy stuff, man. Everywhere I look, the threat of Real Life looms. Mostly I just try not to think about it, but people tell me that now is the time that I should be figuring out what I want to do with my life (and by people, I mean my mother). I am not smart enough for academia (and by “smart,” I mean “pretentious”), I have no marketable skills, and I’m not interested in going to law school (zing!).

I know you are very concerned about me, but have no fear. I did some rull, rull deep introspectin’ and made the following list. Because I ripped this scheme off from High Fidelity, I think it shows that I am serious about my future.

(Rob’s) Elana’s Top Five Dream Jobs

1. A Shirelle.

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