Suddenly, April is here, spring break seems distant and the finish line is in sight. College is always a transitory process, but I’ve never felt that more than I do right now. As seniors looking to the future, our opportunities seem vast and endless, but also intangible and difficult to visualize, as Skyler Schain ’13 so beautifully articulated a few weeks ago.

The word ‘meditation’ may invoke any number of images.  Perhaps the likeness of the Dalai Lama sitting quiescently in meditative repose, legs crossed, eyes closed, hands resting gently in his lap.  Maybe stereotypical meditation paraphernalia such as a singing bowl, a meditation cushion or a Tibetan prayer flag comes to mind.

If you haven’t heard of it, Cornell Crushes is a Facebook page where people can anonymously post a message about their crush. While people mostly tend to make puns about peoples’ names and tell them how much they want to have sex with them — “Morgan, you can write a page in my Book because you’re writing makes me want to bang you,” for example — some actually seem cute. 

We live in a world where sexual dominance is overridingly held by men. Even in our somewhat progressive Cornell bubble, guys are usually the instigators, as well as the terminators, of romantic relationships. In bed, guys sometimes feel like they have the power to get girls to do their bidding.