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As a senior soon to graduate, I have been reflecting on how much I have grown since matriculating at Cornell. I believe my undergraduate experience can be best summarized with the quotation, “I don’t know if it was heaven or hell, but whatever it was, it was wonderful.” I, like many students, have excelled and failed, found love and lost it, matured, evolved my cognitive processes, better understood myself, and have grown even more handsome (not like many students). Positivity does not sell, though – just look at Ithaca’s own Positive News — it’s free and no one reads it. For that reason, my editor encouraged me to reflect on some of the past four years’ hell.

This week, after six-and-a-half years at Cornell, I finally enrolled in HADM 4430: Introduction to Wines — it was my last shot to take the course.

And, while sitting in Statler Auditorium during the first class, I got to thinking about the “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do” list that we published in The Sun almost four years ago now, on Feb. 28, 2005.

After class, I went back to the list to see how much of it I had actually accomplished during my six-plus years on the Hill. The verdict: not nearly enough. Below is a list of the things I have actually completed, along with some commentary:

3. Camp out overnight for hockey tickets.

I have had hockey tickets all seven years, but I only had to camp out four times for them.