Halloween and Other Shenanigans

By Crystal on November 1, 2009

I swear, college is one of the greatest impediments to blogging. With so much going on and us students getting so little sleep, blogging is one of those first pasttimes to go.

The motto for this semester is “Work Hard, Play Harder”. I’m happy to report I’ve been getting consistent A’s on prelims (Cornell’s name for “midterms”, weird, I know). The weekends, which start on Thursdays really, consist of endless partying, with the frat scene and house parties dominating. Sunday is a day of recovery, and the cycle repeats again. The frat brothers range from your standard total Ivy League douchebag to the WASPy Polo-shirt-boat-shoe-wearing gentleman to the huge engineer geek. Everything and anything. Any person, any study I suppose. I’m not meeting as many people as I’d like, but I’m sure that will come with time (I want to know everyone in my small faculty, for example).

I had two costumes scraped together at the last minute for Halloween. Night 1: gold dress + shovel = … GOLD DIGGER! Night 2: pink dress with bow + pink headband with bow + pink clutch + flats with bow = … I have no idea what I was but the boys said I was Barbie so I went with that. The notable costumes included your standard supermen, slutty bunny/maid/I’m-just-going-to-well-lingerie, rappers, nerd, bumble bee, police officer, Keystone light (rofl) etc. I might post photos at Snark if I have time.

I’m looking forward to my next 3 or 4 weekends.

  • Nov 6 - 8: going to Harvard for HUWIB’s Inter-Collegiate Business Convention
  • Nov 13 - 15: going to Syracuse University for an all-expense paid charrette
  • Nov 20 - 22: going to Kingston, Canada for Royal Military College’s annual Christmas Ball
  • Nov 27-29: Thanksgiving, everyone in my suite will be gone. If I stay in Ithaca, my friend from UPenn might be coming to visit.

For Fall Break I went to visit friends in Toronto, had a blast, shopped a lot, it’s nice to be near civilization again!

P.S. - Anyone doing Nanoblomo? I don’t think I will be, but I will subscribe!

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A Canadian in America

By Crystal on September 11, 2009

I’ve been at Cornell for about three weeks now - it’s exhilarating! Okay yes, the honeymoon period is slowly draining out of my system but I still find something new to love in Ithaca every day.

Now as a Canadian I expected very few differences north and and south of the border. But I’ve been noticing a lot of small amusing things!

  • Y’all say “bathroom” instead of “washroom”! I’ve gotten so many weird looks when I say I have to go to the washroom. I mean, you wash your hands in the washroom, but you don’t bath there!!
  • People are highly amused when I say “eh”. I’ve been saying it a lot more now that I’m here just to emphasize my Canadiana
  • Labor! Color! Neighbor! Favor! Note to self: take out u’s
  • Fahrenheit still makes no sense, but I think I’m slowly getting it
  • I still have no idea where Long Island is, even though 50% of my faculty seems to be from there (okay now I do because I just Googled it)
  • People laugh at me for my US geographical-challenged-ness
  • No one knows what IB is

Some classes are fascinating, some are good but not too relevant. I found a job already - as an administrative assistant in a VP office. Joined a bizallion student organizations as well, need to whittle that down. My suite in my dorm is really chill. Life is good.

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It’s Official!

By Crystal on June 18, 2009

I will be going to Cornell next year! We got a nice financial aid package (appealing for more due to recent changes in my parents’ employment) but it’s decided! I’m super excited :D Thanks for all of your well-wishing.

Right now I’m trying to find cost-effective ways to get to Ithaca, New York from Vancouver, Canada. After a lot of searching, the best we came up with was to drive down to Seattle, fly to Philadelphia, fly to Newark, then fly to the Ithaca airport. Oh my goodness! I guess small towns and their tiny airports do have drawbacks. But what the heck, I’ll be able to say I’ve been to half a dozen US cities now.

I will keep you guys updated on this little ol’ journey of mine.

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