Ithaca Hosts Cornellians for Break

By MARY SOTIRYADIS Sun Staff Writer

Winter break offers students time to relax and recuperate ahead of the spring semester. While most students left Ithaca in December — either to go home or elsewhere — a few opted to stay over break.

Kristan Nail ’23 recently moved to Ithaca permanently after transferring to Cornell her junior year. She is one of many students that stayed in Ithaca over the break. Despite having to endure the cold weather, she said she enjoyed spending time in a quieter Ithaca.

“I see a lot of people every day during the semester and usually have a lot of extracurriculars that take up my time,” Nail said. “While

I'm here, I get to experience Cornell and Ithaca without all the chaos and see this place as the place I live and not just the place I go to school at.”

Nail noted that while she sometimes found it difficult to fill her free days, she used her abundance of time and energy to pick up new skills and hobbies. She took a winter class, learned how to cook healthier meals, began a fitness challenge and cat-sat for her friend.

“It was a very relax ing break, and I'm glad I got to spend some time by myself to work on myself and recover from how stress ful and populated Cornell usually is,” Nail said.

Ally Bauer ’24 spent win ter break exploring Ithaca with her friends. She said that she and her roommates went on nature walks for fun, including at the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve, where she had never been before.

Bauer also noted that she went to The Gallery, a donut shop downtown, for the first time.

For some, such as Wanru Zang grad, going home was not an option.

Originally from China, Zang said that the journey home was too far to make.

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