12 Things All Cornellians Shamelessly Do

Author: Sierra Rinaldi

1. Instagram the clocktower/any sunset/cherry blossoms/Beebe lake/the Gorges/anything semi-cool in Ithaca.

And make the caption something cheesy like “CU later,” “CU soon,” “Ithaca is gorges,” or “Go Big Red or go home”.

 

2. Take the TCAT to class when we know we should be walking, since we skipped every planned gym day this week.

 

3. Spend all of our precious BRBs within three weeks of the semester starting, and then add more without asking Mom and Dad.

 

4. Struggle with opening our Trillium salad container so hard that we give up and just don’t eat/ask our more skilled friend to do it for us.

Side note: there’s a trick to opening these. Squeeze in the sides of the container while holding onto the lid… it will pop right off!

 

5. Complain about how Manndibles doesn’t take BRBs, but still go there every time we study in Mann.

 

6. Take the easiest, most un-slopey path up the Slope even if it means being late to class.

And look up at the slope like this:

 

7. Brag about how amazing Slope Day is to all your home friends and not care as they roll their eyes, because it actually is the best day of the year.

 

 8. Go to the library and tell ourselves we will be productive…

…but spend our time skipping through Pandora to find the perfect study song, checking all Snapchat stories (even the Ivy League one), and retelling the entire weekend with our friends…only to realize two hours have gone by and we haven’t cracked open a book.

 

 9. Feel no guilt when we ask for extra of every one of our favorite toppings when we order our salads at Trillium or Terrace.

 

10. Tell ourselves we won’t get ice cream after dinner for once, but end up getting it anyway because the dining hall had your favorite flavor and you just couldn’t live with the thought of missing that opportunity.

 

11. Charge everything and anything that we can to our bursar account, hoping that our parents won’t notice.  (The Cornell Store just has so many cute sweatshirts that I HAVE to have…)

 

12. Think we will get back into school mode within a week and wait for your brain to kick in but it never does…