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How did a humble college town in upstate New York become one of the least affordable zip codes in the United States? To piece together some answers, I turned to a number of local historical and academic sources. What I unearthed was a loose narrative of a small town warping under the weight of student demand.

Despite your perception of yourself at the time, the fact that you spent time alone acknowledging your own inadequacies, unprompted, makes me respect you. It’s easy to be performative in acknowledgment of our failures.

If you study in your room, you are a different breed, and I don’t mean that in a good way.

I’ve come to the shaky conclusion that we probably won’t know true happiness when, and if, we feel it. We may catch a glimpse of it in hindsight, grab at it in the present moment or feel as though we’re always falling just short. But uncertainty lurks in every epiphany. 

Newsletter Signup Subscribe to our daily newsletter! The “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do” may not be the most realistic, but here’s a new bucket list to complete before graduation.Sitting outside of Ives Hall, I witnessed some of Cornell’s return to normalcy with a campus tour of prospective students walking by. The inaccuracies of the […]

These words may mean little to you. But hopefully, they mean something to just a couple people here at Cornell, sitting in Zeus or in Libe Café reading a discarded copy of today’s paper. Hopefully, those people will get up, walk outside and smile at the nervous-looking student on the Arts Quad. Hopefully, those people will go to dinner that night, or next week, or next month, and plop down next to the kid sitting alone.

To increase study-space accessibility to late-night workers, Mann Library has extended the hours of Mann 112 to 24/7.

My favorite study spot is a cozy nook on the fourth floor of Uris Library. It has fantastic views of Ho Plaza, the Slope and Cayuga Lake.It’s a good place to study. But try as I might to work efficiently and without distraction, my eyes drift to the left of the desk, drawn by the […]

After an abrupt end to the fall semester due to a campus-wide COVID-19 outbreak, the University has updated Cornellians on campus operations for the beginning of spring semester.

Six Building Care Department staff members were recognized with Bartels Awards for Custodial Service Excellence in a virtual ceremony Dec. 15.