<p>This got mailed to my home address and my family can't be ****ed sending it to me at my mailing address so I was wondering if anything important was in there.</p>
<p>Also why did I get sent the Great Gatsby!?!?!</p>
<p>The handbook is just something useful to look over because it covers everything about Cornell and answers any conceivable question you may have. When you get a copy of it, you should probably just look over the information about your college (sometimes they have information about advising, etc). I wouldn't worry if you don't get it until you get to Cornell, but if you have a chance to look at it before arriving, then you probably want to give it a skim.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby is the Summer Reading Project for the Class of 2010. You will be participating in a small group discussion on it and the paper you are expected to write over the summer, as well as hearing a panel speak about it. The idea is that a book encourages conversations beyond 'name/school/hometown' amongst incoming students... whether that's true or not is subjective.</p>
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The Great Gatsby is the Summer Reading Project for the Class of 2010. You will be participating in a small group discussion on it and the paper you are expected to write over the summer, as well as hearing a panel speak about it. The idea is that a book encourages conversations beyond 'name/school/hometown' amongst incoming students... whether that's true or not is subjective.
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Haha ok.
Soooo many people aren't going to read it because those sessions don't matter at all</p>
<p>A lot of people probably have read it already, and the panel is interesting, and the small group discussions may be led by someone really important (ie. the vice provost or even the President) so they're worth being prepared to.
That being said, not all Cornell students will be so dilligent. At the very least, you're being 'forced' to read a really good book.</p>
<p>at least it's not things fall apart again. my advice is to make sure you have something to say at the discussion (it's pretty painful if you don't) and write the paper on whatever interests you... if you hated the book, write a two page long complaint about it. it's not graded.</p>
<p>Doesn't the paper go to your FWS professor to read?</p>
<p>I'm not even going to attend the panel ><
(for my previous college although it was "mandatory" to attend these hardly anyone went)</p>