<p>Forgive me for my astounding ignorance, but are separate colleges within Cornell like, actual separate buildings? Will I be mingling with students from all over Cornell? And I know Humec is kind of seen as the, well less achieving college. Is there really that sort of stigma around Cornell?</p>
<p>and I doubt anyone will know, but if anyone has any insight on the Human Development major, I'd love to here it.</p>
<p>I guess you are an incoming freshman? ask a lot of questions!
Yes separate colleges have separate buildings. For humec, MVR (martha van rensselaer)
is the building you’ll go for humec classes and offices. However, separate buildings will not in any way limit the variety of friends you meet. While academic life might be concentrated around a specific college building, social life is totally up to what clubs you join, what people you befriend at your dorms, what frat/sorority you join, etc. Getting closer with students whom you will share classes is a different story.</p>
<p>It is generally accepted as true that the average course load of a humec major is lighter than that of a engineering major. But don’t let that marginalize you in any way. You as an individual can choose more classes to increase the load. Cornell offers many different social activities, clubs, and research where you can learn and grow as well. Don’t worry too much about the stigma but what kind of education you will choose for yourself and how you will maximize your potential. If you carefully plan and put in effort, you will be a top student. That goes for any student in any study, period.</p>
<p>well, that was quite a lovely answer kimjoshy, I appreciate it. Any human development majors here?</p>
<p>The colleges have their own quads, or buildings, as the case may be. Most courses in your college will be held in your own quad/ building. But everyone also takes courses in some of the other colleges. You will be mingling with students from other colleges in these other courses. Plus students from other colleges will likely take some of the courses in your college as well. Perhaps more importantly all of you will be intermingled in the dorms, and socially.</p>
<p>In my day there wasn’'t really much distinction made, academically, between Hum Ec and several of the other colleges. From what I can tell these days there would be even less reason for this. Hotel took the brunt of the “easy” allegations back then, but at graduation time they all had multiple job offers…</p>
<p>The Human Development major back then was considered an outstanding program there , I hope that’s still the case.</p>
<p>There can occasionally be some internecine one-upmanship in evidence, but I doubt Hum Ec gets hugely more than its proper share of abuse, since it didn’t before. If it’s got the program of studies you want, I don’t think this other stuff should discourage you.</p>
<p>one of my best friends is an HD major and she loves it. it’s very much like psych, although i think she said it’s a little more personal/analytical - focused on specifics, like child development or something like that.</p>
<p>it’s a very good major (bc most, if not all, majors at cornell are taught by people who lead their fields), although some will rag on it to soothe their prides/fulfill their quota of elitist sayings for the month. ;)</p>
<p>“it’s a very good major (bc most, if not all, majors at cornell are taught by people who lead their fields), …”</p>
<p>In the case of HD that would, historically at least, be an understatement. Urie Bronfenbrenner was a giant in this field; while I was there he even taught some highly popular intro classes. I would imagine that his presence there would have attracted other top scholars, and the program would still be considered outstanding. But I don’t know that for a fact.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies 
I feel better.</p>
<p>you should visit in the Fall and get the real poop.</p>