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Designing Computing Systems for Robotics and Physically Embodied Deployments With Sabrina Neuman

10 a.m. - 11 a.m., 233 Phillips Hall

Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History With Mary Barton

11:25 a.m. - 12:40 p.m., Virtual Event

Evolutionary Insights From Development and ‘Lost’ Traits With Molly Womack

Noon - 1 p.m., G-10 Biotechnology Building

Soup and Hope 2023 With Julie Page Noon - 1 p.m., Sage Chapel

Women’s History Month: A Conversation With Nicki Moore Noon - 1 p.m., Warren Hall

Cornell Music: Midday Music With Travis Johns

12:30 p.m. - 1:10 p.m., B20 Lincoln Hall

Meal Planning Made Easy

3 p.m., 621 Cornell Health

The Border as Facism With Harsha Walia

3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Virtual Event

Black Holes and Revelations: Unseen Companions in Stellar Binaries With Kareem El-Badry

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building

Autism Social Group

4 p.m., Virtual Event

Catalyst and Method Development in the P(III)/P(V) Redox Couple With Lori Ferrier

4 p.m. - 5 p.m., 119 Baker Lab

From Interfacial Liquid-Gas Transport Phenomena to Sustainable Energy and Water Systems With Lenan Zhang

4 p.m. - 5 p.m., B14 Hollister Hall

The Nature of Data With Jenny Goldstein

4 p.m., 160 Mann Library

Safe and Efficient Learning for Power System Operations: An Interior Point Approach With Baosen Zhang

4:10 p.m., 233 Phillips Hall

Diverse Paths in Sustainability: Alumni Career Panel

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Virtual Event

Cornell Chorus and Ithaca College Choirs

7 p.m., Sage Chapel

Botanic Gardens Houseplant Liquidation Sale

10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

Causes and Consequences of Variation in Foraging Behavior in a Challenging World With Jennifer Uehling grad

Noon - 1 p.m., 429 Rockefeller Hall

The Social Impact of Augmented Reality

10:30 a.m., Virtual Event

Black Women Writers: Voices From Brazil With Tassiana Oliveira

12:25 p.m., Virtual Event

Cities of Hope: Rethinking the Idea of the Progressive City From Above and Below With Simon Parker

12:25 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Relational Epistemology With Prof. Drew Margolin

2 p.m. - 3 p.m., 102 Mann Library

On Trans-Pacific Collaboration and Repair With Jung Joon Lee

3 p.m. - 4 p.m., Schwartz Center Film Forum

Paradoxes of Survivorhood: Becoming Legible After Domestic Violence With Paige Sweet

3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Virtual Event

Summer Experience Grant 2023 Info Session

4:30 p.m - 5:30 p.m., Barnes Hall

Business Manager Katie Chen ’25

By PAREESAY AFZAL Sun Staff Writer

Photographic identification on metro passes, dining halls open for only half an hour and sports practices scheduled until 2 a.m. — Cornellians studying abroad for Spring 2023 are met with a great variety of novel experiences that they say are both challenging and exciting.

Academics

“It’s always been my dream to be a student at Oxford,” said Tatiana Bustos ’24, who is studying in the United Kingdom.

Taking English courses at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, Bustros attended weekly one-on-one meetings with her instructors to discuss readings, receive feedback on her assignments and ask questions.

“I have not gone to any lectures,” Bustos said. “It’s not really required and doesn’t have anything to do with my tutorials. It’s very independent work that you’re expected to do here.”

Still, according to Bustos, given the distractions and opportunities available abroad, this seemingly light schedule can be hard if one is not self-motivated and holding themselves accountable.

However, for Skylar Xu ’24, who is taking philosophy and film classes in Paris, lectures are the key for academic success.

“At Cornell, I mostly took seminars in the humanities and there’d be a lot of class discussions,” Xu said. “Here, it’s more lecture-based and there seems to be a heavier focus on concrete text — sometimes you have to read an entire book for class.”

Ellie Zhang ’24, studying business in Spain, feels most excited about the international perspective she is opened up to.

“I have people from Portugal, Germany, London — all over the world — in my classes,” Zhang said. “It’s interesting to learn the international experience on a lot of the topics I learned in my finance classes at Cornell. For example, [one great topic is] how much this meal we’re eating would cost in their home country.”

Language Barriers

Xu is starting to get used to learning in French, given that the program through which she is studying abroad — EDUCO Consortium in Paris — offers classes taught only in French.

Zhang would experience hiccups like going to a coffee shop and not knowing how to order, or having to use Google translate while communicating with salespeople for important purchases. But she said the language barrier has been permeable because of the presence of many English speakers in Madrid.

Same is the case with Amy Hidalgo ’24 in Singapore, who thinks the Singaporean