<p>Time for an old fashioned Willard Straight Love in Calling Perro, Shzz, Norcalguy, and all you other current students (I know theres tons more that post here). </p>
<p>Lets try once and for all to dispel this ridiculous cutthroat stuff </p>
<p>Ill go first my experience at Cornell was wonderful nothing but a positive attitude from other students everyone wanting everyone else to do well and being helpful to each other to succeed </p>
<p>I NEVER ONCE saw anyone doing anything malicious like stealing notes, sabotaging another student, etc .</p>
<p>I dont even know anyone who knows anyone who has seen this .I come from a big Cornell family filled with engineers, artsies, and hotelies my daughter is heading to the hill this fall shell be part of the third generation of our family to attend Cornell again I have NEVER heard of this type of activity</p>
<p>Sure the work was challenging THIS IS THE IVY LEAGUE. AFTERALL if you dont want to be challenged go to the local community college</p>
<p>OK who else wants to take a whack at this </p>
<p>I think Shizz's cat thing is pretty cutthroat.</p>
<p>I've been pretty lucky as a premed. EVERYONE I've met has been nice and helpful and I'm not just saying this. I have heard from friends of some examples of over-competitiveness but none of that note stealing/lab stabatoging crap. Usually just someone who's reluctant to give you the answer. A single person cannot change the class mean very much. It's just not worth it. Screwing should only take place in the bedroom.</p>
<p>If people want to see some over-stressed, caffeine loaded Cornellians, you can stay till next Thursday night for the orgo prelim.</p>
<p>here's a recent scenerio. i lost a book (which i hadn't read) and the prelim is this thursday. another classmate of mine withou hestitation allowed me to borrow it (today btw) until I was able to buy a new one (which isn't coming in until next week). when i overslept for this class (it's an 8:40 class, and i only did it once) he typed it up and emailed me his notes for that day. what a lifesaver! when someone does that for you, it just reiterates how great cornell is. without a doubt, i would do the same for anyone who needs help. i let people borrow my previous prelims that I somehow got my hands on (i signed on to blackboard earlier before all the contents of the previous years got erased and downloaded the prelim + etc) and let ppl I know have a copy. </p>
<p>i doubt my experiences are unique, and it's just great that everyone is helping each other out. in the end, no one fails.</p>
<p>I'm sitting here at Uris right now pulling an all-nighter and there are some people here too. When they weren't looking, I replaced their coffees with battery acid. It's hard to do well in class if you're in the hospital instead muahahhahahah</p>
<p>Most will not sabotage your work. But don't always expect people to go out of their way to help if you are having a problem, mostly because everyone is busy and doesn't have time to spend helping you out. With that said, if you form study groups and have friends in a class, then those people will help you the most.</p>
<p>Hey i dont light people on fire, i kill entire families in their sleep. Especially babies. Get it straight.</p>
<p>But, seriously, Cornell kids are really nice. I havent noticed anything malicious about any particular demographic on campus at all. There's a great sense of cameraderie and unity amongst the students, a feeling that stems from a shared pride in our great institution. All cornell students, no matter what their background or interests, have the single common thread that they are part of the cornell community, something in which they can take pride. Everywhere there will be a few bad apples, but i sure havent run into many here. Instead, ive found that people are much more willing to help each other and to share in the common experience.</p>
<p>Wow, that was the most heart-warming story I have heard all week, quynh! :) I realized that competition is actually one of the things I was most concerned about at Cornell, and this thread eased my mind. (Thanks wharf!) After being in honors/AP classes with the same 20 kids since 4th grade, I've definitely come to rely on group studying and cooperation. I hope I'll be able to find a group [of hotelies] that agrees with me on this issue!</p>
<p>Wow, CornellHotelie, I have found the complete opposite with the group of honors kids in my school. I have tried to get away from them... I just can't stand most of them, but that is probably just because of the neighborhood I live in... It's EXTREMELY cliquey (did I spell that right?) and I moved here only a couple years ago, so I'm still out of the clique... This post has eased my mind about having the same problem at Cornell... Although, I don't drink, or smoke, so that may limit the people I hang out with to an extent (as has been the case in high school), but I guess you could say that's my fault-I prefer not having as many friends to not keeping myself healthy.</p>
<p>I think the point of this thread is to stop stereotyping schools. Unless you are a student at a school, you really do not have any concrete information to base your assumptions on.</p>