Discuss “Student life at CMU should go beyond the classroom”

New faces, innovative talents, and fresh meat, welcome to Carnegie Mellon. Inherent in your enrollment and payment of tuition is an unwritten bill of rights afforded to you upon joining the Carnegie community. First-years are subdued for weeks with undiversified talks of diversity, laced ice cream sundaes and merrymaking under the guise of Playfair and related activities. Yet, all the joyous revelry aside, has the conversation been had that informs you of where the loopholes, enjoyable avenues, and special spaces hide?

Let one who has fallen down in the path to self-realization offer a map so that you may avoid similar pitfalls. It would be a most grievous error for you to be unable to look back four to five years from now without a smile coming...