GOLDWIN SMITH HALL—Each semester, thousands of freshmen are encouraged to engage with Cornell’s vast breadth of knowledge in the form of its abundant and diverse Freshman Writing Seminars (FWS). However, for Blake Perry ‘28, there lingers a feeling of unfairness in the system due to fun classes being filled up quickly. “My first choice was…
STATLER HALL—”If you love something, set it free,” so the proverb goes, and so went the freshly downloaded student-made app from Kaya Weismann ‘27’s homescreen into the abyss. According to Weismann, it all began when leaving Statler Library after a few hours of studying. “That was when I saw them. They were breathtaking. It was…
MY APARTMENT—I was thinking, like, wow, we’ve known each other for so long, and I’d like for us to get closer. There’s this unspoken bond between us, where I write articles about you, and you don’t really acknowledge them because flirting with a student “isn’t appropriate”, but I know you enjoy the attention. I remember…
OLIN LIBRARY—In the midst of her treacherous slog through a mandatory 82-page reading, Elaine Sanders ’28 spotted a light at the end of the tunnel. “It was a chart- nay, a graph that took up nearly a whole page-and-a-half. It was awesome. I let my eyes glaze over for a minute as I gleefully scrolled…
CORNELL HEALTH— In the throes of a bleak and frigid January, Cornell’s population is, as always, seeking relief from the effects of seasonal depression. Vitamin D supplements, although their effectiveness as an antidepressant is contested, are one popular and accessible countermeasure to the inescapable darkness of the winter months. Unfortunately, experts warn that dietary supplementation…
