Opinion
SEX ON THURSDAY | Why Every Girl Needs to Hear the Line “He is Just Not That Into You”
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We have to change our view of rejection. Rejection is not humiliating; it’s not embarrassing; it’s natural.
club fair
GUEST ROOM | Rejection: The Worst Thing You Never Knew You Needed
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We come to Cornell told that we are the best of the best, scoring in the 99th percentile in standardized testing and consistently top of our high school class but what happens when the best of the best are living in a microcosm? The answer is rejection. Yesterday, I was rejected from two professional fraternities within a 12-hour period, and this morning when I arrived downstairs to have breakfast with my sorority sisters I was greeted with a similar air of rejection followed by stories of disappointment. I realized that a common feature of the Cornell experience is rejection. We all experience it in nearly all avenues of our daily lives.
Columns
SEX ON THURSDAY | I’m Bad at This
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“You write a sex column. Aren’t you supposed to be good at figuring this stuff out?”
It’s a question I’ve gotten a lot — mostly in my own head — but also from a few friends who know the real person behind the pseudonym Reykjadick. The truth is I am very, very bad at this. I also have some minor successes. In the interest of providing the valuable insight that not all Sun Sex on Thursday columnists spend their time having elaborate sexcapades so elaborate they would make the wildest porno you’ve ever seen — complete with Fabio on Horseback — here are some tales of, well, not that.