These are from a column I published biweekly in the Cornell Daily Sun, on random topics. Note that in many cases, the Sun further edited the column slightly for space, and so the published versions were often a few sentences shorter that the ones here. (Writing a column in only 500 or 1,000 words isn't easy!)

• Oct 1, 1999 The Never-Ending Battle: Parking tickets at Cornell, as seen from another perspective that perhaps people don't usually think about.
• Oct 14, 1999 Escape From Corn-Hell: Just a little blurb encouraging people to get out and explore the beautiful countryside around Ithaca.
• Oct 28, 1999 Goofing-off-in-lecture.com: about new ways to avoid paying attention to the teacher in high-tech classrooms.
• Nov 11, 1999 Beautiful Women, Big Breasts, and Bald Heads: or why the latter one, along with my travels in China, lets me empathize with the former two.
• Feb 3, 2000 Media Problems: Griping about how the local news on TV sucks. (OK, this one is pretty boring.)
• Feb 17, 2000 Spirit Wars: why being a Cornell student (or Harvard student, or whatever) doesn't make you better than anyone else.
• Mar 2, 2000 Back in my day: what we may someday be telling our grandkids about what life was like when we were young.
• Mar 16, 2000 'Til the Cows Come Home: About how there's often more to a person than meets the eye, and why Nelle on Ally McBeal might miss out on life because she's unwilling to date a janitor.
• Apr 6, 2000 Large as Life: What I found in Florida during Spring Break, when I looked very, very, very closely.
• Apr 20, 2000 It's a Dog's Life: what I'm trying to learn about life from a psychotic dog I'm good friends with.
• May 4, 2000 The Beginning or End of an Odyssey? A little reflection at the end of another school year at Cornell.

All columns copyright © David Hiebeler.