Nobel Cornellians
Hans Bethe smiles as he is congratulated by his students the day he received news of his Nobel prize. The ringing of the phone tore through the silence of a small hotel room in Washington D.C. and woke Bob Richardson up from his sleep. It was 5 a.m. Richardson picked up the receiver, only to hear an unfamiliar voice speaking in a Swedish accent. Read More
Top 10 Classes to Take Before Grad
November 5th, 2009When Ezra Cornell said, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” he wasn’t kidding. Now that our founder’s words have come true — with seven undergraduate colleges, 80 majors, hundreds of courses offered each semester — those are a lot of options for the well-rounded students of Cornell. But wait! I only have four years (give or take). At a university as large and diverse as Cornell, there is no way I’ll be able to fit all of these interesting classes into my requirement-filled schedule. As students have been dealing with PeopleSoft since last week, with tomorrow as the last day that freshmen can complete pre-enrollment, this dilemma has surely been on many of your minds. Read More
Top 10 Ways To Know You’re Addicted to Your BlackBerry
November 5th, 2009So many of us either have a BlackBerry, know someone with a BlackBerry or witness on a daily basis the countless tops of heads hunched over screens and fingers furiously typing throughout campus. I am not about to judge any of you addicts, as I am probably one of the worst offenders, but here are some helpful tip-offs that you, or a loved one, may be an addict. If you can relate to even one or two of these, you probably suffer from at least a mild form of BlackBerry addiction. 1. You narrowly avoid walking into people or objects on your way to class, because your eyes are glued to your BlackBerry. Worst-case scenario: You actually do walk into another person, as both of you are mesmerized by your phones. Read More
Too Young, Too Old, Just Right: Attempting the 161 at Every Age
November 5th, 2009There are quite a few things on the 161 things list that are age specific. By the time I started taking the list seriously at the beginning of this year, it was too late to do several of them. Luckily, my picky eating habits and a refusal to trek to the dining hall in the snow kept me from doing #107: Gain the freshman 15, pay $300 for a gym membership and don’t go. I did, however, manage to gain the junior going abroad 15, so I guess that evened itself out. #9: Take Psych 101 may as well be off limits by the time you get to senior year. 10 a.m. Friday class? Completely incompatible with my rampant senioritis. Read More
Visitors (Un)Welcome
November 5th, 2009I really hate tourists. I hated having to be one while studying in Italy, and I hate every camera toting, fanny-pack-wearing, Nuts-4-Nuts eating tourist in New York. Despite my antipathy toward foreign sightseers, there is one type of tourist whose presence does not offend my sensibilities: the college visitor. Throughout our years in school, we beg friends at universities around the country to make their way to Cornell. We want to show them how much we love our lives here; they meet our friends, eat at our restaurants, drink at our bars and sleep, well, hopefully somewhere more exciting than our couches. After a weekend of debauchery, we hope that they understand why it is we like this place so much. Read More
Hate of Jon & Kate
November 5th, 2009The biggest story of July 2007? Lindsay Lohan’s three consecutive stays in rehab. The biggest story of July 2008? The birth of Brad and Angelina’s twins, Knox and Vivienne. The biggest story of July 2009? The nasty breakup of some random couple with bad hair. The saga of Jon and Kate Gosselin has gripped the nation for the past several months, for no apparent reason. They have surpassed such standbys as Brangelina, TomKat and Linsday Lohan as 2009 tabloid favorites. Their divorce has attracted more attention than every political sex scandal for the past few years put together. Read More
Making Models Even Skinnier
November 5th, 2009Standing at five and a half feet tall, Marilyn Monroe claimed her measurements were a curvy 35-22-35. Barbie’s famous plastic figure, scaled to size, would be an impossible 36-18-33. And as if Barbie’s rubberized Coke-bottle silhouette didn’t seem unattainable enough, Ralph Lauren’s recent ad campaign shaved inches off an already svelte model to something that looks a little closer to 34-12-30. Simply take a look at any magazine cover, underwear advertisement or even a big city billboard. The product they are pushing might be different, but underneath the polished glossy finish, these ads share a common bond — the magical media tool known as Photoshop. Read More
Cooking for Cornellians 101
November 5th, 2009I’m always amazed when people tell me that they can’t cook. First of all, that is one dangerous assertion to make around people of the opposite sex — the ability to create delicious food, particularly for another person, is extremely attractive, so no points for you, Mr. Easy Mac. Secondly, why not? Unless you grew up living entirely off of street vendors and takeout or live in an apartment where entering the kitchen is a health hazard, you have had a place to cook at your disposal all of your life. So even though you will attempt exclamations of lack of time in your defense, there is really no excuse for not being able to put together something that didn’t come entirely from a box, can or dining hall. Read More
Empire State of (a Mixologist's) Mind
November 5th, 2009The Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps. Concrete jungle where dreams are made. No matter what you call it, New York is the greatest city in the world and nothing else can compare. In the words of Frank Sinatra, “If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.” Everyone who is anyone has made it in New York, and the same holds true for the cocktail community. If you can’t find an audience for your drink in New York, nobody should be drinking it. In honor of the Yankees taking home the World Series,* I invite you to celebrate the city I love by drinking your way through a booze-filled tour of each of the five boroughs. Manhattan 3 oz. whiskey 1/4 oz. sweet vermouth Read More
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