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Being Bold Despite the Cold: How to Stay Active on Campus This Winter

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Check-in time! It’s about halfway through the semester at this point, and everyone’s favorite time of year: flu, prelim, and snow season. With daylight savings now behind us and the sun setting as early as 5:00 p.m. each day, the lack of Vitamin D can really get to a person. So make sure to keep yourself busy and not fall into that Ithaca-winter funk! The cold weather can definitely be a deterrent for getting up and out of the library or dorm in the morning, but just because the temperature dropped doesn’t mean that activity on campus did too.

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The Best “Due Friday” Memes: A Curated Anthology

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In case you live under a rock, or, like some mysteriously sane person, don’t check social media, you might have missed the “Due Friday” memes that went around last week. What a wonderful way for students across the entire university to come together and do what we do best: 1) roast the f*ck out of each other and 2) poke fun at how busy, stressed, and depressed we all are.  See below for my top picks from the notorious “Any Person, Any Meme” Facebook group…

17. 16. 15. 14.

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FOLLOW THE STARS | Virgo Season Has Arrived – Here’s How It Will Affect You

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Welcome to the first installment of a 12-part series highlighting each Zodiac sign! In my opinion, astrology has fascinating implications that may guide us toward manifesting our greatest, fullest, and highest selves in the sacred time we have on this Earth. The stars may even show us how we can change the world in unique ways that reflect how we shine as individuals. Overall, consider the Zodiac as a framework for uncovering areas of opportunity and special gifts that you may have not yet recognized in yourself. As I personally mourn the end of my fun, fiery, and ever-so-sparkly Leo season, the sun enters Virgo, a grounding Earth sign ruled by the ever-so orderly and rule-abiding Virgin.

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DESTROYING JOTENHEIM | The Three Essentials of Orientation Week

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Pack your schedule to the max

One of the great things about Cornell is that they are well aware of the difficult transition between high school and summer to living at college, and they go through a lot of effort to make the change as easy as possible for incoming freshmen with Orientation Week. Events start as early as the day of move-in, and if you take full advantage of the university’s scheduled activities, you shouldn’t have a single minute of empty time to stew over the discomfort of being in an entirely new and unfamiliar place. That being said, a lot of Orientation Week is what you make of it. Only a fraction of the events that you will find in the welcome guide are actually mandatory, and many tend to overlap and leave the decision of attendance up to you. As a newly former freshman myself, the best advice I can give for this portion is to go out to as many events as you can.

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SUNSPOTS | Ask Us Anything – Orientation 2019

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We get it! You probably have a lot of questions. We all did too. We also know that good advice can be sparse, hard to find, and mixed in with a lot of crap. So here is a form for you to ask us your most pressing questions about Food, Student Life, Extracurriculars, Classes, Ithaca, and whatever you want.

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CULTURALLY SHOOK | On graduating and confronting a future

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Writing about endings tends towards the cliché. I want to preface this by saying that it’s impossible for me to write about graduation without feeling uncomfortably self-aware of the redundancy of my feelings. Of course I’m sad that a “chapter” of my life is over. Of course I’m “excited” about “what the future holds” for me. But all that has been said before and felt before, by almost 4,000 of my fellow classmates and hundreds of thousands more across the United States and the world over.

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TEA TIME WITH JULIAN | A slope day recovery playlist in 9 acts

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Songs for May 9

 

Act 1: Father John Misty – “Nancy From Now On”

Nothing says ‘How did I end up asleep on my friend’s porch?’ quite like a Father John Misty song.  

Act 2: The Fray – “How to Save a Life”

Walk home. Reread your texts from the day before. Grieve.  

Act 3: Tierra Whack – “Only Child”

Make mean eye contact at a CTB employee because you’ve just about had it!

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DESTROYING JOTENHEIM | “Left” Behind

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Have you ever had to sit segregated from your group of friends in lecture? Have you ever had to walk into a classroom and step over countless feet on your way to the most inaccessible corner of the room? Or have you had to take notes glancing at the board over your shoulder? Congratulations. You experience what is known as “right-hand privilege.”

As a northern-based and higher institution, Cornell’s self-proclaimed dedication to being at the “forefront” of inclusive diversity seems to be a foregone conclusion—so typical of what one would naturally assume for a university like this, that it’s easy to forget to check whether the college is actually following through.

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Ask Anj | Freshman Friendships

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Q: So it’s going to be the end of the semester soon, and I have a problem: I’m a freshman, and I feel like I don’t have strong, sustainable friendships. My roommates are nice, but I don’t see us hanging out much after this year, and I’ve got some platonic friends from my FWS, but once that’s over, I have no idea if we’ll still talk to each other. Everyone around me seems to have at least one best friend already, and some have a “family” who they eat dinner with regularly. Am I not putting myself out there enough? Should I wait for solid friendships to come my way, or is it something I should actively seek?

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AKABAS | The 10 Commandments of Awkwardly Running Into People on Campus

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You’re walking straight down College Ave. and find that someone else is walking straight at you. You both realize a bit too late that an unfortunate collision is imminent, so you each try to get out of the other person’s way at the last second. You both move in the same direction. Then you both hop back the other way.