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WEIRENS | Dressed to Distress: White Dress Woes
111 dresses tried. Three states. Hours and hours spent standing in front of cracked mirrors and dirty white walls, bending and zipping, spinning and twirling. Stomach grumbling, head pounding, legs aching. That’s how one of my friends spent three entire days of her spring break – endlessly shopping for the right graduation dress. This friend, although a more extreme example, is fairly representative of the struggle many graduating women experience finding their dress. This is for many reasons: White, the traditional (to a duress-like extent) color of a graduation dress, is a difficult color to look good in, the social pressure of shopping for such a large event is stressful,…
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WEIRENS | Best Places to Have a Breakdown at Cornell
Best Places to Have a Breakdown at Cornell The suffocating winter blues of Cornell are in full swing. It’s freezing, prelim season lurks, the sky is grey, the trees are bare, spring break feels impossibly far away and the future looms fearfully. To help you wheeze and blubber your way through campus this dreary season, here are the best places on campus to fall apart (with varying degrees of dignity). The Shower A classic for a reason. Here, you have guaranteed visual privacy, as well as the convenient instant cleansing of the tears and snot coursing down your face. Unfortunately your wails will echo on the tiled walls, so you…
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WEIRENS | How to Throw the Perfect College Friendsgiving
On the eve of Thanksgiving, this Cornell senior and seasoned Friendsgiving veteran wants to dispense some advice on how to throw a fun, delicious and drama-free Friendsgiving party. Here are some of my core tips: The Spreadsheet I think the single most critical aspect of a successful Friendsgiving is the spreadsheet. I’d recommend making a group chat for the honored guests and sharing a blank Google Sheet or Doc, so people can add what they plan on bringing. I don’t recommend assigning dishes. People tend to have their own recipes, budgets and kitchen limits in mind. For example, someone may not have an oven at their place, or even a…