Cornell English professor Daniel Schwarz offers “20 Suggestions for Incoming Freshman” in The Huffington Post, detailing nuggets of wisdom that every student – not just freshmen – can benefit from, such as:
Keep your career and life goals in mind, and remember why you enrolled at the college and in the program you chose.
Experience complements what you learn in classes.
Get to know at least one professor reasonably well each term.
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
