<p>Besides the nature, how's the campus look. Is it full of cool old looking buildings like Upenn and such? From what've i've heard it's kind of mixed up looking, modern and historical.</p>
<p>Yeah, it is indeed a mix of everything.</p>
<p>in a nice way?</p>
<p>I like the mix. I have classes in all types of buildings, so it's a nice change of pace every day.</p>
<p>yea definitely a good mix, Princeton/Duke meets Carnegie Mellon or something</p>
<p>the arts quad? i think is definetely the nicest in the ivy league except maybe princeton cause i havent been there</p>
<p>do you guys ever miss the city?</p>
<p>nah, when you take a look, Ithaca has plenty to do and the University itself is loaded with student activities</p>
<p>The arts quad is kind of old-fashioned, stereotypical Ivy League. They keep the lawn almost perfect year round (literally just about raking leaves as they fall) and whatnot. The engineering quad and hotel school are more modern. Hum Ec is kind of a mix. Never really spend much time on the ag quad.</p>
<p>yea the arts quad is nice...i mean all of the ivys are great + like amherst, williams et cetera.</p>
<p>axman: God willing, i'll live in nyc after college, i'm definitely a city person or whatever. HOWEVER i thought about like what if i went to columbia or nyu or something and frankly i think that cornell has a more collegiate environment in which to foster proper learning of the liberal arts blah blah. imean i love the city, but studying at columbia? anh i dunno it would be so strange to like be in the middle of a big city and be in college. perhaps this is a distorted view but w/e because columbia et cetera and i guess harvard is in a big city (although cambridge isn't like downtown or w/e) are amazing schools (nyu too). but yea, bottom line: love the city, but cornell is still awesome. if you're a city person, you'll live there all of your life even if you keep places in the country or abroad, but college is once in a lifetime and cornell is a cooooool place to spend it</p>
<p>What's the story about the new West campus residential colleges? Something like Harvard's House system thing?</p>
<p>i mean many colleges have a house system....</p>
<p>anyhow, there are going to be 5 houses at the completion of the West Campus Residential Initiative. two are already lived in and a third is going to be liveable after january. two more old dorms on west campus will be torn down to be replaced by the final two. they have common areas, guest suites, libraries, dining halls, mail rooms and many other cool things.</p>
<p>Not like Harvard. THey're just dorms on steroids. At Harvard you identify with your college and you're part of it. These are just dorms with dining halls and state of the art amenities.</p>
<p>My first impression of Cornell was that it was similar to Amherst College -- with UMASS plopped down in the middle of it.</p>
<p>i know about harvard's colleges, bongoboy, and i mean yale has a similar system, modeled after oxbridge, but the point of the west campus initiative is to make west campus like this, so that people identify with their houses, et cetera. they have dining halls and cool amenities too. and they even have crests to make people even more proud to be there.</p>
<p>sametwochords, it's not the same. You live in one of those West Campus dorms for one year then you move on. At Harvard, and Yale, and Oxbridge, that's your college, period. Yes, the new West Campus dorms invoke the better qualities of actual residential college systems (i.e. in-house dining halls, libraries, faculty, programming, etc.) but they are not the same, nor are they attempting to be the same.</p>
<p>yes i know it's different i never said that it was totally the same...obviously i'm aware you don't live on west campus for all 4 years...BUT they are trying to model themselves after such colleges. the idea is that a student will identify with his or her college and want to live there maybe even the last three years after living on north campus as a freshman. this idea of "identity" is what they are trying to model themselves after. of course it can never be totally the same because freshman live on north campus and west campus couldn't house the entire top three classes, but the goal is similar to other schools: a feeling of belonging and identity.</p>
<p>To augment that, I would argue that Cornell's program houses do offer that specialized family-like residential enviroment. You can live there all four years (3 years for the Language houses since you have to apply your Freshman year) and you can take advantage of everything they have to offer albeit they are spread out between North and West campus.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many students West Campus will be able to accomadate when completed?</p>
<p>the only thing i can think of about the dorms is i got lost when i went there early this year, i can remember searching my way back to the Latino Living Center (where my host lived) at 12 mid night....
the food overall is good...all you can eat..that's is pretty nice</p>
<p>hahaha rach17 i got lost trying to find the latino living center at midnight where my host lived too!!! and i was all alone. were you at the MVP thing too? cuz my friends host was in balch and then after that i was going back to the latino living center and i was so confused. and of course i was stupid and i stopped to ask some hot guys jus cuz they were hot and we just talked for like 15 minutes about nothing. and they told me to go straight until i saw a "deadendish". but then a really nice dorky cute kid helped me out.</p>