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CBS Live @ Cornell University

Here are some video clips of Cornell ILR alumnus, and Emmy award winner, David Price broadcasting live from Cornell’s Ithaca campus for the CBS Early Show.


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More videos of me running

Remember that time I qualified for IC4A’s but couldn’t go because it was a relay? Oh and that time I anchored a 4×400 for 3 distance guys… Continue reading ‘More videos of me running’

No More Teachers, No More Books…

Unfortunately for me, dirty looks from teachers is my major. I made I made it though a tough year characterized by many many oopsidesnts I attribute to a severe case of fresmanitis. While track wasn’t the greatest either, it showed signs of promise. I tried telling myself that after first semester, but I’m still waiting for it to happen. Anyways to put things in perspective (for myself at least) The average student at Northwestern University as more tests in one day than I do all year at Cornell. Throw in the fact that NU has a whole extra month (or two) of school compared to well, just about everyone. That’s a lot of tests; you do the math.

A few things to note before I go:

  • Moving out is infinitely more painful than moving in
  • Especially when your parents don’t come to pick you up
  • Especially when you pack like a girl who overpacks
  • Especially when you’re only allowed one checked bag on an airplane and have to take the train with 5

That is all. Congrats to the DCDS track team on their Regionals win. Now back to being bored.

A few end-of-the-year notes

Life has been pretty busy since spring break ended. I haven’t really had time to post lately but that doesn’t mean nothing has been going on.

  • Today marked the last official day of classes. However, the annual Slope Day festivities were cut short for me due to the track meet tomorrow, and at least partially to the cold rain. I’m at least a little bit bummed out about that.
  • School is tough. So is track. Both of them together? I don’t know how I manage (if you can call it that).
  • I still don’t know how I am getting home. The longer I wait the more of a problem this will be come. Lacking transportation home has been a reoccurring theme this year.
  • CollegeHumor original videos are absolutely great.
  • I have 8 months until I start competing for the next track season. I don’t know if I can make it that long.
  • I got the shaft in CoursEnroll for next semester. I guess that’s what I get for having my first two CoursEnroll experiences go so smoothly.
  • Updating Twitter is a lot easier than doing this.

So I guess my goals for the next couple weeks is to make it out of here alive. Between final papers, finals, and trying to redeem my first track season with a good time in the very last meet, I haven’t gotten much sleep. I suppose sleep should go on that list of goals too. Because I failed to line up anything for me to do this summer, that leaves me asking what everyone else is doing this summer.  I’ll be interested to know who’s around until next semester starts.

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Track and freshmen year

Franklin Field
Quaker Invitational at UPenn
Originally uploaded by btan87

I can’t believe the year is almost over; my first year of college and two seasons of NCAA division 1 track and field are soon to end. I’ve felt this feeling recently more than ever seeing as I’ve been traveling to Pennsylvania for two consecutive weeks now. I’ll more than likely be there again this coming weekend, and hope to earn a trip to the Penn Relays (kind of a big deal), the week after. That’s a lot of Pennsylvania in one month!

As you can tell, track consumes essentially all of my life. This season has been pretty rough, both physically and mentally. Despite always hearing upperclassmen and coaches say that most freshmen should consider it a great season to equal their high school performances, it’s frustrating to be as far off as I am now. Granted these two seasons (plus fall training) have totaled more than three full high school seasons. Hopefully next year will go as coach says it should.

Hopefully this weekend I can drop some significant time off the performances I just posted at Ithaca College…

I hope everyone else’s year has gone well, and I look forward to seeing everyone as school draws to a close and summer begins. Although I have yet to secure any plans this summer, has anyone else?



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