<p>well, if you have the time anyway, and you're with a lot of people, you might as well eat early if you're all able. It's just less hassle.</p>
<p>i'm one of them that waits for the doors to open - but then I enjoy countless food w/o the food-cooling lines of people.</p>
<p>gomestar, so am I. Last year, my suite mates would all anxiously wait until 5PM, when the doors opened, to eat. All five of us were famished by that time anyway. I personally ate lunch at 11ish during the week, so 6 hours is more than enough time between meals for me!</p>
<p>Workload is just a state of mind. The pre-med and engineering courses, however, are tough. But if you study till you can't anymore (as most of us do) it will be ok.</p>
<p>If you breezed through high school, you'll have to learn some time management skills. Workload is tough, but the serious students wind up doing fairly well.</p>
<p>arch students don't stay in studio all night long because they love to procrastinate. it doesn't make sense that arch students would lose a whole night of sleep just because they want to procrastinated. sleep deprivation sucks and arch students know that better than anyone else. </p>
<p>while SOME students do (and that's mainly the freshmen who haven't developed a strong work ethic and still have the energy to do so), the main reason why the workload is heavy is because the process of creating architecture takes so much longer than say, taking a P-set or working out a homework assignment. you can finish a pset in 1-3 hours and once you're done, you can do whatever you want. but in architecture, design is a process...almost like an evolution where your ideas have to developed, from one model to another, with lots of time for experimentation...which always takes up a lot of time because ideas often fail. that's just design studio...there are probably 3-4 other architecture classes that also demand your attention...plus outside elective responsibilities.</p>
<p>"arch students don't stay in studio all night long because they love to procrastinate"
My eyes and ears say otherwise. </p>
<p>"sleep deprivation sucks and arch students know that better than anyone else."
Archies are incredibly brilliant when it comes to design and artistic interpretation. Common sense is something they seem to lack though (some at least, I'll be totally shocked if you say you havn't noticed this - it's as clear as day to me). Putting extremely expensive and fire retardent bamboo as the main attraction for this year's dragon?</p>
<p>being a first year student, you'll learn that there is always someone up at all hours of the night!!! that being said, be aware that campus police do make rounds (on bikes and vehicles) </p>
<p>people stay up for many reasons: partying, drugs, alcohol, crime, study preferences, sex...</p>
<p>Although I haven't been to Cornell yet (I'm a transfer) I can say that be ready for different sleeping hours. You will no longer have to wake up at 6am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (!!!!!). This means you can stay up later...much later. I had a problem going to sleep because everyone I hung out with would just hang out alllll night so I'd have to pull myself away to get sleep. I'd say around 7 hours was the average tho (on non-party days). Altho that was w/o the work of Cornell.</p>
<p>(lol all my friends dragged my to 5pm dinner which was insane for me since I eat at 9:00-9:30 at home...but I adjusted pretty fast).</p>