Archive - 2007

That's right. It's Cortaca this weekend. For those of you who aren't aware what that is, it's a football game with our standing rivals: Cortland. This game was founded by Ithaca and Cortland's breweries back when the drinking age was 18 in New York (oh how I wish that was the case now) and they figured they could make some money off students and their love of D3 football teams. Anyways, that law is in the past and the breweries no longer host, but the ritual lives on.

Instead of bashing Hillary Clinton again, this is the first of a four part series on the American college student.

Part I - Graduation

We'll start where it all is supposed to end. Graduation. Students accumulate grades and credits toward the goal of graduating. That's the point for most students. It's also one of the problems with how we perceive education.

Ohio State keeps proving me wrong. I thought this week was a good possibility for them to lose their first game, but instead they went out and throughly outplayed Wisconsin. If they keep winning like this there's no way they can be held out of the title game, even if they do play in a horrible conference. They have two games left to finish the season undefeated, Illinois and Michigan. The Illini could pull off the upset next week if OSU looks ahead to the Michigan game. If they win next week, it sets up a match-up in the Big House with a Big Ten outright title and a national champ.

I intern at Longview, a residential senior community in Ithaca, NY. Recently, one man's wife of over half a century fell and broke her hip. She is now in rehab and staying at the hospital until she recovers. Everyday this man sits in the lobby and waits for someone to pick him up to see his wife. It touches my heart to see him sitting there every evening. To me his devotion is a testament of true love. For him the act of waiting patiently to see his wife though no one has come for days on end... for him this act just comes natural. Waiting for her is as natural as breathing.