When I was growing up, there were always things that I could expect for dinner. For example, we’d have white rice every single day, something very typical of an Asian family. But also something I could count on was fish at least twice a week. I don’t know if that had anything to do with being Asian or not, but I do know that I grew to love fish. Man oh man, I loved every single bite of every single fish I tried. So when I came to Cornell and discovered that some people don’t eat fish at all, I was pretty surprised. How could people not like the delicious fishy taste that I so loved? In any case, I quickly learned that Cornell was a pretty diverse place and fish was the least of our differences. Whatever, I would just keep eating fish and they would just keep missing out.

When I was growing up, there were always things that I could expect for dinner. For example, we’d have white rice every single day, something very typical of an Asian family. But also something I could count on was fish at least twice a week. I don’t know if that had anything to do with being Asian or not, but I do know that I grew to love fish. Man oh man, I loved every single bite of every single fish I tried. So when I came to Cornell and discovered that some people don’t eat fish at all, I was pretty surprised. How could people not like the delicious fishy taste that I so loved? In any case, I quickly learned that Cornell was a pretty diverse place and fish was the least of our differences. Whatever, I would just keep eating fish and they would just keep missing out.

As the days in Ithaca get shorter and colder, Cornellians increasingly fill the carrels of Olin and Uris library ready to study the night away. This is no coincidence as the end of the semester is the time for prelims, papers, and projects. However, the colder, darker days of winter also signals the start of the cold and flu season. While walking through the Olin, Uris, the dorms, or anyplace else it is not difficult to find someone already sniffling, sneezing, or coughing. As the winter days go by, more and more of your friends and peers will fall victim to these dreaded diseases.

Every morning, the first thing I do is pick up a copy of The Cornell Daily Sun. After two years of reading, it finally hit me. Nowhere in The Sun is there a section about health. Sure, sometimes there are random articles about health. But there is no section or column dedicated to the topic. For such an important topic (especially for college students), I feel like The Sun needs at least something on health. That’s where I come in.