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The Things I Carried

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As a senior soon to graduate, I have been reflecting on how much I have grown since matriculating at Cornell. I believe my undergraduate experience can be best summarized with the quotation, “I don’t know if it was heaven or hell, but whatever it was, it was wonderful.” I, like many students, have excelled and failed, found love and lost it, matured, evolved my cognitive processes, better understood myself, and have grown even more handsome (not like many students). Positivity does not sell, though – just look at Ithaca’s own Positive News — it’s free and no one reads it. For that reason, my editor encouraged me to reflect on some of the past four years’ hell.

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W. Hockey Seniors Play Their Last Game at Lynah Rink

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The women’s ice hockey team played its last two home games of the season this past weekend. These two matchups, against Harvard and Dartmouth, were also the final opportunities for the three seniors on the team — Emma Chipman, Brianne Gilbert and Steph Ulrich — to play at Lynah Rink.
After playing for the Red for nearly four years, the seniors on the team found their last games at Lynah to be full of emotion. The team lost to Harvard in a tough 5-2 loss, but stayed strong to come out with a 3-3 tie against Dartmouth, ranked No. 8 in the country. The tie guaranteed Cornell an ECAC Hockey playoff spot. After the Dartmouth game, the seniors on the team were honored by their teammates and coaches in a senior night ceremony.

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Three Seniors Carry Volleyball Through Times of Transition

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Every graduating class is special — any coach will tell you that. But sometimes a class comes along that, for whatever reason, really does stand out in a coach’s mind.
For volleyball head coach Deitre Collins-Parker, the seniors of 2008-09 are just such a group: captain Hilary Holland, Emily Borman and Kathryn Woodbury remain of the original fab five. (Jessica Misse will stay with the Red for another year, and Lia Gaetano no longer plays volleyball for Cornell). They were Collins-Parker’s first — the first class she recruited, the first class she will see graduate after a full, four-year cycle. Their departure will be full of memories both amazing and bittersweet.