Becky Lee helps you learn the essential supplies and preparations needed to ensure a successful, frustration-proof road trip.

Hazel Gunapala builds up stamina and embarrassment while singing up The Slope.

Cornell Diary from a recent graduate.

I think it’s fair to say that I, more than the average person, really love updating other peoples iPods. There are few feelings better than being handed an iPod and asked to upload 10 albums that I think someone will love. It’s such a fun game and when I succeed, I feel like a champ. However, every time I go home for a break I inevitably get asked by my father to update his iPod. The only problem is that my father’s music taste makes me question his sexuality. Which is obviously a very big issue.

Being a Mac user, I’m bombarded with the inane advertisement that is the Safari home page whenever I start up my browser. Surprisingly, I can’t believe that I’ve JUST seen the ad for the new iPod shuffle. Aside from VoiceOver, which (l) allows the iPod to announce things to you, such as playlist title, song name, etc., the other feature that caught my attention about the shuffle was the placement of the controls on the right earbud.

Hold on, something’s not right. The controls are on the earbud?

Z explains what's up with students rapping along to their iPods, while A advises a guy on how to ask the girl of his dreams to a formal.

When people suffer from chronic or long-lasting diseases life hangs by a thread. Patients remain under constant monitoring and medical supervision while they slowly recover from illnesses like congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition where the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Traditionally, this monitoring confined sufferers to an uncomfortable hospital environment surrounded by other threatening diseases. But recent advances in wireless communication technology may soon allow for remote monitoring. Aside from improving patient comfort, “telehealth” may reduce healthcare costs. Telehealth is projected to be a $5 billion industry by 2010.

I asserted a year ago that I would return to writing about my iPod Touch (1G) to give my extended impressions of the device after more usage. The new Touch is already out, but the differences between it and mine are purely in hardware and are moot in this article. Over the past year, Apple opened their App Store, gave Touch owners the suite of apps that was initially missing and added new features and fixes to the Touch. All of that became accessible through a $10 update, which holds much more value than the $20 previously asked for just the app suite. I'm now running software v.2.1. Mail works beautifully, and the Chinese handwriting recognition keyboard is very well-implemented. What still bugs me though, is the