Cornell Business

Issue date: 11/5/00 Section: Features

Since coming to back to Cornell I’ve often been told that these five words are the most frequently heard from my mouth. Now, I realize this could get tiresome. However, when you’ve had as much fun in one place as I have had here, it’s difficult not to become effusive (and I guess repetitive). When I solicited suggestions from former classmates, one of my guy friends referred to Ithaca as “god’s country.”

In lieu of irritating people for the next seven months, here’s my guide to fully taking advantage of your time at the Big Red, as we professional Cornellians prefer to call it. I guarantee a more fulfilling experience should you heed my advice.

1. Go camping at Treman State Park
2. Tour the wineries
3. Go to a Cornell hockey game
4. Climb the clock tower at Uris Library on a clear day (yes, they do exist)
5. Get your veggies at the Farmer’s Market
6. Noodle to Lost Sailors at the Rongo (if you don’t know what noodling is, get to the Rongo anyway)
7. Run the monkey trail (thank you Maggie & Brian for teaching me this one)
8. Play golf, and lots of it
9. Swim in the gorge (diving the morning of graduation also encouraged)
10. Two words - Pines Burger
11. Streak the Arts Quad at 3:30 am (I know most of you don’t take classes there but I don’t think we can streak Sage)
12. Go apple picking at the Cornell Orchards
13. Bike Six Mile Creek
14. See a play at Hangar Theater
15. Climb the wall at the Palms (name the day, guys)
16. Take the Old Port Harbor Boat Cruise around the lake
17. Study at the Arboretum and Flat Rocks
18. Order a TMBC at Hot Truck in February (miserable pledges abound)
19. Go to the batting cages on Route 13
20. See a movie at Cinemopolis or Fall Creek
21. Celebrate Slope Day appropriately (kudos to Pete Loncto’s rookie performance last year)
22. And most importantly, get kissed on the suspension bridge and make a wish

I realize some of these seem a bit juvenile for Johnsonites, but come on. Isn’t that one of the benefits of being a student again? I’ve left out some of my favorites that even I know are no longer appropriate. But if you are really interested in going to the toga party at Chi Psi, Brayden would be happy to get you on the list…

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