Te Unsung Victims

Here’s a perspective you don’t hear that often: A sympathetic narrative on Cornell’s legions of Residential Advisors. Based on that sentence alone, I know all you campus dwellers are already writing me off as a “boot-licker” or something to that effect. Trust me, as an idealistic freshman back in 2020 I would’ve done the same. Afterall, what else did my RA do for me other than write me up on numerous occasions?

For many underclassmen this is where their relationships with their RAs start and end. However, as you age out of on campus life, the terror of a 2am knock on the door becomes a thing of the past and your RAs transition to classmates, peers and friends.