LIFESTYLE | Why You Ought to Apply to the Lifestyle Department

You can apply to be in The Cornell Daily Sun Lifestyle Department here.

It’s the autumn of 2023, the New York climate is at its peak, the senior 12 months power is at an all time excessive because the soccer season begins — and I’m burdened like by no means earlier than. I spent days, weeks, studying about completely different universities and subsequently honing my curiosity in Cornell. I went to info classes, toured campuses and scoured college web sites and social media platforms to study all the pieces obtainable. 

I might come dwelling from what ought to (and often was) an incredible day, and clawing at the back of my mind, gnawing away at me, was my “why.” To summarize: there may be nothing I dislike greater than the “Why (insert college/university name here)?” query. 

I’m positive regardless of the place you utilized, and the way the “why” query itself was phrased, you agree. Some faculties will ask you ways you suppose you’d add to their neighborhood, others ask you ways you’ll make an impression or why you’re within the faculty and a few simply plainly ask you why. However it’s put, they wish to know for those who’re genuinely interested by them, and the way you see your self belonging and contributing there. Usually, from my expertise, you received’t know till you get there. You can speculate, you’ll be able to place your self on campus throughout a tour and it might probably really feel proper, however all you’ll be able to actually do is see what’s essential to you and guess. 

So, proper across the finish of the autumn, I gave my “Why Cornell” the perfect shot I may. Now, I can confidently let you know that I used to be solely partly proper about my reply. I’m not the identical individual I used to be two years in the past once I utilized, and neither are you. Coming to campus, I had the identical values I wrote about, and I nonetheless consider in what I wrote, however I modified. 

Once I joined The Cornell Daily Sun in my freshman fall, I noticed that clearly. The Lifestyle Department (your go-to subjective part for all issues Cornell campus) was simply launched and getting off the bottom once I utilized. As I wrote my software to affix The Sun, all I may suppose is “I know nothing about Cornell yet? How will I get in?” as I wrote about my (nice) orientation week expertise. Even O-week was nothing like I might’ve anticipated, and that’s the level. Lifestyle at The Sun is in regards to the sudden Cornell experiences; belongings you would by no means know in your ‘why Cornell’ reply till you’ve lived them.

Now that I’ve had the chance to be part of the expansion of the part, I’ve additionally grown extra assured in my potential to reply my ‘why Cornell’ and know what makes me distinctive on campus and what I deliver to my Cornell communities. The particular particulars you anticipate to have to put in writing a few faculty in your basic faculty software ‘why us’ query are what Lifestyle solutions. 

I’ve had the chance to expertise so many fascinating issues in my time at Cornell; attempting new eating places with mates, Cornell tutorial golf equipment and organizations, enjoyable occasions, courses, making superb, lifelong mates — all belongings you get to put in writing about in Lifestyle. Our part thrives off of persona, opinion and new experiences. We study with you. What which means is as an editor for the Lifestyle Department I study one thing new each single day about Cornell, and our staffers find yourself instructing us simply as a lot as we train them about the way to discover their voice and place at Cornell and develop into higher writers each week.

Each author has their very own distinctive experiences. Every individual is completely different and discovers new alternatives on campus and within the higher Ithaca-area (and has their very own opinions about these subjects) and we wish to spotlight that. We keep up-to-date on related subjects to Cornellians, however we additionally enable you to all study issues with us. It’s rewarding, it’s punchy (as a result of we all the time have an opinion; controversial or not, it’s there) and it’s new. We are nonetheless rising, and we’re searching for a crew of writers to proceed growing the part and who deliver a novel voice to the division. 

Being part of Lifestyle brings plenty of new alternatives. You can write campus-related opinion items, share impassioned opinions of eating places (or courses, or golf equipment and the listing goes on), or presumably contribute to one among our three nameless (and sincere) columns; “Dating on Wednesday,” “Sex on Thursday” and “Faded on Friday.” 

You’ll know extra about campus and your house at Cornell than you ever thought potential. We extremely encourage making use of. Help us discover your voice, and develop our new and rising part into all the pieces we all know it is going to be! Join us. Learn your ‘why Cornell’ as soon as and for all! 

You can apply to be in The Cornell Daily Sun Lifestyle Department right here. Applications are due Friday, September 19 at 11:59 p.m. For any software questions or lifestyle-related inquiries, you’ll be able to attain the Lifestyle Department at type@cornellsun.com, or contact Co-Editors Kaitlyn Bell and Maia Mehring at kbell@cornellsun.com and mmehring@cornellsun.com, respectively.

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