Life in Corning’s Glass House (no stone-throwing necessary!)
There is a town in upstate New York where every type of glass you’ve ever known is trapped between two worlds. Pieces that once held an Egyptian lady’s perfume, an 18th-century consumer’s liquor or...
View ArticleIn Sherlock’s (& the Surgeons’) Study
Getting to Edinburgh’s Surgeons’ Hall Museums is like traveling to Narnia–if you swapped the wardrobe for a creepy winding stair complete with cheerful signs encouraging visitors to continue against...
View ArticleSpring break, sponsored by February
For normal Cornellians, spring break’s a long way off. In Edinburgh, however, things work a little differently. The middle of February features a period known as “Innovative Learning Week,” during...
View ArticleParisian Epiphanies
Life is punctuated with brief moments of significant realization. Sometimes these epiphanic moments–such as my discovery that Chris and Martin Kratt (of Kratt’s Creatures and later the vastly inferior...
View ArticleOld Texts, New Textures
There’s nothing like a little tourism to transform a tired town into the thrilling country it was when you first stepped off the plane. Given that I still say “thanks” instead of “cheers” and can’t...
View ArticleMind the Cold Snap!
Frantic travel plans may, on occasion, transform the learned voyager into a simple mass of likes and dislikes. After a whirlwind weekend in London, I can confidently assert two such preferences: I like...
View ArticleHave a Nice trip!
The Cornell Abroad pre-trip handbook advises parents that their soon-to-be-international children will undoubtedly return “changed for life.” So far, I am happy to report that “change” does not, in...
View ArticleViking the Perfect Balance
‘Norse’ has never been cooler. As Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth’s Loki and Thor smoulder on the big screen, Norse mythology is currently hotter than a Viking ship burning. I’m no stranger to this...
View ArticleFossils are the New Castles
Day 4 of the 2013 fall semester. Already I’ve spent more than six hours in class, and have resupplied thanks to a resource the locals call “Wegmans.” This “Ithaca” appears to suffer from a profound...
View ArticleThesis It (or, A Scholar’s Guide to Awful American Movies)
Allow me to sum up my activities for the past few weeks with one particularly horrifying image. There is a certain point, my friends, at which the overworked mind begins to descend into a level of...
View ArticleAddress to Impress
What does a marker sketch of Loki by the incomparable Tom Hiddleston have in common with Cornell’s copy of the Gettysburg Address? Well, as the clearly leading nature of my opening sentence suggests: a...
View ArticleThat’s so 1607!
With another wave of chilling winds well on its way, how better to escape the doldrums of winter than with cannons and colonists? (And some cannibalism too, unfortunately.) When Ithaca seemed to...
View ArticleWell Met!
Every time I visit New York City, I become convinced that I’d much rather (simply) walk into Mordor than make my way around NYC by myself. Combining the crowds and aggressive street hawkers of Waikiki...
View ArticleBrevity is the Sol of (Le)Witt
When last we spoke, o mysterious readers, I was but a few weeks into a new job in a town where there’s not a gorge to be found, Ithaca College Radio (THE STATION FOR INNOVATION) is replaced by strange...
View ArticleParisian Epiphanies
Life is punctuated with brief moments of significant realization. Sometimes these epiphanic moments–such as my discovery that Chris and Martin Kratt (of Kratt’s Creatures and later the vastly inferior...
View ArticleLife in Corning’s Glass House (no stone-throwing necessary!)
There is a town in upstate New York where every type of glass you’ve ever known is trapped between two worlds. Pieces that once held an Egyptian lady’s perfume, an 18th-century consumer’s liquor or...
View ArticleIn Sherlock’s (& the Surgeons’) Study
Getting to Edinburgh’s Surgeons’ Hall Museums is like traveling to Narnia–if you swapped the wardrobe for a creepy winding stair complete with cheerful signs encouraging visitors to continue against...
View ArticleSpring break, sponsored by February
For normal Cornellians, spring break’s a long way off. In Edinburgh, however, things work a little differently. The middle of February features a period known as “Innovative Learning Week,” during...
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