<p>I don't think there is such a thread on this site at the moment, so I thought I'd create one.</p>
<p>With prelims/finals coming up, where do you sleep when you go to the library? Let's compile a list. (add your listing to the ones listed before you)</p>
<p>I'll start:
- couch chairs in Catherwood near the bookstacks (ILR)
- sofa in the library in Willard Straight (right beside Okenshields)</p>
<p>Not just the library, but the whole campus!</p>
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<p>any lecture hall with a professor lecturing gets me down in under 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Please don’t sleep in the library during finals week. I know you freshmen think it’s cute but it really isn’t. Seating is limited and tempers are short during study period, so the last thing people want to see when they’re looking for a few quality hours in the cocktail lounge is 10 passed out Asians occupying 12 useable seats.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the sleeping in the library thing anyway. What the hell kind of classes are you people taking that you have to study 24 hours a day for 5 days straight before finals? I’m a senior and I’ve not done that once…I do like…15 hours total for all of my classes combined, spread out over the whole study period. So I sleep…in my bed?</p>
<p>3rd floor duffield has couches in the area right above the campus road entrance and also on the bridge between phillips and upson. the meche and mat sci lounges in upson 1F and bard 2F also have couches and up until just now the ECE lounge in phillips 2F also had some.</p>
<p>if i stay on campus overnight to finish a project i usually crash in these places for a couple hours before waking up for class</p>
<p>Caillebotte, why do you only mention Asians?</p>
<p>Perhaps there is a disproportionate number of asians that pull all nighters…</p>
<p>IMO, if you’re pulling all-nighters, you’re an inefficient studier. I’ve never pulled an all-nighter to study, and I had a ****load of APs to study for junior year.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with mentioning Asians. It’s rather a compliment cauz they work so hard (they really do lol)</p>
<p>Captrick, what do APs have to do with anything? I’m a junior in high school right now and I would NEVER compare my AP exams to a college final exam; at the most they’d compare to an entry-level freshmen course. You buy a prep book for an AP exam with basically everything you need to pass. College classes don’t have that - you have to walk in on exam day possibly knowing how many questions or if you’ll have essays or not, but other than that you have to prepare yourself for anything. You don’t know what areas will be emphasized more than others, whereas APs typically have known percentages of focus on certain topics. I’m not a college student yet, but I have a solid expectation that APs are not very good representations of college exams.</p>
<p>Oh, and on the topic of this thread: I don’t know if people at Cornell like to take up entire 4+ person tables for a solo study session, but I hope this doesn’t happen. I study a lot at a local university library and I see this all the time. Especially around exam time, it’s a pain in the ass when you and a couple friends need a larger table to study and you’re forced to take separate isolation desks because other people studying alone wanted a gigantic table.</p>
<p>And group rooms. Don’t even get me started on the greedy people who take a group room for themselves (I assume the Cornell library has group rooms?)</p>
<p>I know Mann Library has individual rooms, but they are of different sizes: individual, group, large group, etc. You have to check into it with your group (or yourself for individual) then a timer starts. There’s a big screen showing time remaining until current “group” must give up the room, then it’s yours :)</p>
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Because 99.3% of people who sleep in libraries are Asian.</p>
<p>I would not recommend sleeping in the library. if you’re that tired you need to head home and go to bed. I do think that it’s nice to chill in the Mann library big comfy chairs on the first or third floors by the back, or the big room with the paintings on the second floor. these are good places for taking a break to read the newspaper or that sort of thing…you’re too close to other people to sleep.
also, I am a college junior and I think AP exams are as hard as most finals. for one thing, APs are a whole year of material, and also AP exams usually take twice as much time as a final at Cornell is allotted. I’m not saying finals at Cornell are easy but it’s not like they’re crazy impossible either.</p>
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<p>@faustarp
What APs are a full year of material? As far as I know most AP Exams represent a semester of a college class. And as far as the time thing, I thought most of them are around three hours long?</p>
<p>The problem with APs is that there’s a whole business dedicated to making books for students to “master” them. This doesn’t exist for Professor ____<strong><em>'s final exams. You have to study the material for college classes, not just read through a “Cracking the AP _</em></strong> Exam” book and take a bunch of practice tests that are EXACTLY like the exam. </p>
<p>Sure, many AP classes are well designed and provide a good model of a college class for HS students. However, many students get 5s without thoroughly learning the material simply because they knew how to beat the exam. </p>
<p>I don’t think finals at Cornell would be crazy impossible, just as hard as a college final should be. I simply thought it was funny that Captrick compared his studying for AP exams to college students’ studying for their finals.</p>
<p>how about physics B? I get credit for two semesters of Cornell physics because I got a 5 on that AP exam.
5 on Calc BC is also worth two semesters of college, and AP bio for nonmajors as well. this is coming straight from Cornell: <a href=“http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/current/registrar/current-students/upload/Advanced-Placement-2010_2011-2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/current/registrar/current-students/upload/Advanced-Placement-2010_2011-2.pdf</a></p>
<p>one benefit you have in a college course is that you have usually taken 2-3 previous exams written by that exact same prof, and not in a practice setting but as your regular exam. I think it’s a lot easier to predict what an individual person might set for a final exam than what some giant AP committee thing will come up with. with APs, even the person teaching you doesn’t know what’s going to appear on the AP exam.</p>
<p>also, it might just be irrationality, but I got way more hyped-up stressed for my APs in high school than I do for my finals in college. it seemed so arbitrary to take a class for a whole year and get grades, but in the end all you have is one giant NUMBER from 1-5. I can’t remember a single quarter grade I got in high school, but I remember all my AP scores. in college, you just sit there for 2-3 hours, answer the questions, and leave. none of the pomp of sealing everything up and sticking on your ID stickers.</p>
<p>also, I find that in a lot of cases, my course grade is nearly set before the final anyway, just by the way the grade is split up percent-wise. as long as I study a reasonable amount for the final it won’t change too much (or it will go up a little.)</p>
@calliebotte I don’t think it was right of you to say that. I understand freedom of speech, but Asians aren’t the only ones who sleep in libraries.
“the last thing people want to see when they’re looking for a few quality hours in the cocktail lounge is 10 passed out Asians occupying 12 useable seats.”
Would you make similar characterizations about African Americans, even if they are true?