Think life with cold weather, messy roommates and endless homework is hard? Think again. A grad student abroad meets impoverished women in Tanzania who break rocks for hours a day. Here's why they count themselves lucky -- and you should too. 

A Cornell grad student abroad finds a hobby in battling trees, and enters the dangerous crossroads of East African languages and mixed martial arts. Embarassing double-entendres ensue. 

Every seven years or so, Maasai warriors from different lands gather at training camps called emanyatta. After receiving an invite to a warrior jamboree last week, I trekked up to anemanyatta atop a range of hills along the border of Tanzania and Kenya.  

Straight up. No chaser. Still warm! A Cornellian abroad partakes in a unique Maasai ritual.