FRESHMAN ISSUE 2012
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The Corne¬ Daily Sun
TAKE-HOME TEST | Student Guide | PAGE 27
Big Red Ambition: 161Things Every Cornellian Should Do Compiled from student responses to an e-mail survey in 2005; updated 2012. ! 1. Make the library into your bedroom and have sex in the stacks ! 2. Check out the Ithaca Farmers Market and the Farmers’ Market at Cornell ! 3. Pet an animal on the Ag Quad ! 4. Go to the Cornell-Harvard men’s hockey game and throw fish on the ice ! 5. Sing along to “We Didn’t Go to Harvard” with Cayuga’s Waiters ! 6. Sled down Libe Slope during a snow storm ! 7. Eat at Taverna Banfi and charge it to CornellCard ! 8. Streak across the Arts Quad ! 9. Take Psych 1101 ! 10. Test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones across them ! 11. Attempt sake bombing at Plum Tree or Miyake in Collegetown ! 12. Enjoy ice cream and other dairy products made by Cornell Dairy ! 13. Climb the rock wall in Bartels Hall ! 14. Listen to a full clock tower chimes concert and guess the songs played ! 15. Take classes outside your major. Way outside your major. ! 16. Wear flip-flops to class in January ! 17. Go to the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus and gaze at meteor showers ! 18. Have a snowball fight in May ! 19. Go beer tasting at the Ithaca Beer Co. brewery ! 20. Skip class to play frisbee on the Arts Quad ! 21. Bury a bottle of liquor on Libe Slope. Dig it up on Slope Day. ! 22. Pick apples at the Cornell Orchards ! 23. Attend the Apple Festival on the Commons ! 24. Flirt with your professor ! 25. Bomb a prelim ! 26. Ace the next one to save your grade ! 27. Get a massage at Gannett and bursar it ! 28. Meet Happy Dave from Okenshield’s ! 29. Turn your face blue from screaming at midnight before the first finals ! 30. Get heartburn at the Chili Cook-Off on the Commons ! 31. Spend a summer at Cornell and enjoy Ithaca’s few months of warm weather ! 32. Go to a Shabbat dinner at 104 West (CornellCard it) ! 33. Watch the AAP students parade down East Avenue on Dragon Day ! 34. Enjoy corn nuggets at The Nines ! 35. Build a snow penis, then watch as Cornell University Police knock it down ! 36. Dress up and go to The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Risley ! 37. Take a class you think is impossible just for fun (pass/fail) ! 38. Go on a wine tour ! 39. Kiss someone on the suspension bridge at midnight ! 40. Sleep through your alarm for a 1:25 p.m. class ! 41. Shop at a secondhand store on the Commons ! 42. Avoid paying a University parking ticket ! 43. Buy an Ithaca Is Gorges t-shirt, then get sick of wearing it and buy a variation (Ithaca Is Gangsta, Vaginas Are Gorges, Ithaca Is Long Island...) ! 44. Learn the “Alma Mater,” “Evening Song” and “Give My Regards to Davy” ! 45. Attend an opening at the Johnson Museum of Art ! 46. Smuggle food from the dining hall and run for your life as they try to get back your stolen cookies ! 47. Do the Walk of Shame ! 48. Have dinner at a professor’s house ! 49. Get wasted at a professor’s house ! 50. Drink sangria on the patio outside Collegetown Bagels ! 51. Play a game of tag in Olin library’s stacks ! 52. See a play in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts ! 53. Rush the field at the last home football game of the season ! 54. Go sailing on Cayuga Lake ! 55. Gamble at Turning Stone (try not to lose money) ! 56. Watch dancers fly through the air at a Bhangra show ! 57. Have a midnight picnic in the Cornell Plantations ! 58. Wait in line for half an hour for a salad at the Terrace ! 59. Ignore any and all “No Winter Maintenance” signs … slip and fall on the icy stairs ! 60. Sit in Libe Café when you have no work to do and watch the worried studiers down gallons of coffee ! 61. Write an angry letter to the editor of The Sun ! 62. Go to Wegmans on a Friday or Saturday night ! 63. Explore the secret underground tunnel between Uris and Olin libraries ! 64. See the library’s Rare Book Collection ! 65. Pretend you are Harry Potter and study in the Law School library ! 66. See the brain collection in Uris Hall ! 67. Get credit for drinking in class — take Hotel Administration 4330: Introduction to Wines ! 68. Don’t get credit, but drink in another class anyway ! 69. Blow glass at the Corning Museum of Glass ! 70. Get paid to take part in a psychology experiment ! 71. Nap in a library ! 72. Take over a building ! 73. According to legend, watch a virgin cross the Arts Quad at midnight and then witness A.D. White and Ezra Cornell shaking hands ! 74. Live through an Ithaca blizzard and tell your friends how you survived frostbite ! 75. Throw a flaming pumpkin into the gorge ! 76. Play intramural co-ed innertube water polo ! 77. Spend all your lectures working on the day’s Sudoku. While sitting for the final, wish you had taken notes instead. ! 78. Hook up with your T.A. ! 79. Order a PMP at the Hot Truck ! 80. Play trivia at Rulloff’s on Sunday nights
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81. Go back for karaoke night on Monday 82. Party on a Tuesday night, skip your morning class 83. Hit up Group Therapy at Dunbar’s and Fishbowls at Level B on the same Wednesday 84. Go bowling at Helen Newman Lanes 85. Hand out quartercards on Ho Plaza 86. Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza 87. Have a friend’s parents take you out to eat at John Thomas Steakhouse or Boatyard Grill 88. Eat a chicken parm sandwich from Louie’s Lunch 89. Eat breakfast at 5 a.m. at the State Diner 90. Males: Get thrown out of Balch Hall. Females: Get bumped to the front of the line at a fraternity party 91. Hook up with a freshman (after your freshman year) 92. Hike in one of Ithaca’s beautiful parks 93. Walk to the Commons and back 94. Go to an a cappella concert 95. Ice skate at Lynah Rink 96. Write a message on the wall at Collegetown Pizza 97. Sell back your books; use the money to buy alcohol 98. Drink bubble tea 99. Eat a Pinesburger 100. Walk to a fraternity party with your entire freshman floor 101. Go to a fraternity party as a senior; convince yourself you were never one of them 102. Get lost in Collegetown during Orientation Week 103. Question the meaning of life 104. See a foreign film at Cinemapolis or the Cornell Cinema 105. Eat mongo at RPCC 106. See a concert at Barton Hall 107. Gain the freshman 15, pay $300 for a gym membership and never use it 108. Eat Sunday brunch at Carriage House 109. Do your Freshman Reading Project sometime before you graduate 110. Go to Harry Potter night at Risley Hall 111. Tailgate for homecoming 112. Be a model in the Cornell Design League’s annual fashion show 113. Host a prefrosh 114. Request a song to be played on the clock tower 115. See how long you can avoid accepting a quarter card on Ho Plaza 116. Get asked if you are pregnant at Gannett (males and females) 117. Drink with your freshman year R.A. 118. Make a chalking; weep when it rains that night 119. Sing drunk on the TCAT bus. End up passing out on the same bus. 120. Rent a Big Red Bike from Uris Library 121. See how long you can go without doing laundry; buy new underwear to keep the streak alive 122. Take a road trip to Canada 123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone 124. Go to the sex shop next to the Commons 125. Get drunk on Slope Day, run into Vice President Susan Murphy ’73 126. Complain about the Slope Day headliners 127. Get tapped for a secret society 128. Go to The Shops at Ithaca Mall, realize it is severely lacking, then drive to Carousel Mall in Syracuse 129. Console a friend who did poorly on a midterm, only to find out they did better than you did 130. Complain about your freshman writing seminar to no one in particular 131. Walk holding hands around Beebe Lake 132. Visit the Sciencenter 133. Watch a soccer game at Mama T’s, crammed in like a sardine 134. Get J.A.’d for urinating on a campus building 135. Hook up with a stranger then awkwardly run into him/her every week for the rest of your time at Cornell 136. Go to a coffee house in JAM 137. See how many people you can cram into your dorm room 138. Watch people play Dance Dance Revolution in Appel 139. Write dirty messages with rocks in the gorge 140. Ride a horse at Oxley Equestrian Center 141. Ring the giant bell in the Plantations 142. Crash a political rally on Ho Plaza 143. Conquer the COE ropes course 144. Attend a show at the State Theatre 145. Prank call the CIT HelpDesk 146. Wake up at 7 a.m. for CoursEnroll; realize that your choice classes are full anyway 147. Ski at Greek Peak 148. Take a night prelim near the vet school, walk back in the dark 149. Trespass on Alumni Fields 150. Ask Uncle Ezra a question 151. Take the BASICS program 152. Walk to class in the snow, uphill both ways 153. Buy a Cornell-grown apple from a vending machine 154. Furnish an apartment entirely with items from the Dump & Run 155. Eat at each dining hall at least once 156. Ask for an extension on a term paper 157. Take part in Holi and get colorful 158. Prepare to pull an all-nighter in the Uris Library Cocktail Lounge by drinking a Caffeine Bomb: drop a 5-Hour Energy Drink into a large coffee and drink as fast as you can 159. Tell a professor what you really think of his/her class 160. Find your favorite Collegetown bar; sigh as it closes two months later 161. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower