<p>how are the business majors or PAM? cutthrought? hard?</p>
<p>a "prelim" is cornellspeak for "exam". many colleges only have midterms and finals (aka two exams per semester + quizzes and homework) to determine your overall grade. most classes at Cornell have "prelims" which basically means 3-4 exams per semester instead of 2. this could work in your favor since if you bomb a test 50% of your grade isnt screwed. it also means you never quite stop studying once prelims begin since theres rarely a week when you dont have an exam :-P</p>
<p>as for working hard: at Cornell you will work your arse off. after 2 years you will look back at first semester senior year of high school (which was probably a difficult time) and realize how easy it actually was by comparison. </p>
<p>The plus side is that although you are working hard it doesn't feel like it because everyone around you is working just as hard. You will <em>never</em> be the only one in the library pulling an all-nighter, and on most prelim weeks the popular libraries are still bustling with activity at 2am. </p>
<p>My point is that attending a good university will motivate you to work hard, and after a while, once you get used to it, its not so bad at all.</p>
<p>College ******* tends to repeat tiresome stereotypical remarks (for Cornell and other schools). If you were to go to Columbia, Yale or Harvard, for example, you would work hard as well and have to go to class in cold winter weather. But if you manage your time well, you can get good grades and have a social life at Cornell.</p>
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The plus side is that although you are working hard it doesn't feel like it because everyone around you is working just as hard. You will <em>never</em> be the only one in the library pulling an all-nighter, and on most prelim weeks the popular libraries are still bustling with activity at 2am.
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<p>Which libraries are the most "active"? And does the noise level become annoying? And how valuable are study groups? My school isn't the type to have out-of-school study sessions, so the concept of a study group is really foreign to me... These aren't really life-threatening questions, lol, but I'm curious.</p>
<p>"The plus side is that although you are working hard it doesn't feel like it because everyone around you is working just as hard. You will <em>never</em> be the only one in the library pulling an all-nighter, and on most prelim weeks the popular libraries are still bustling with activity at 2am. "</p>
<p>I'm a GT and at the college I'm at (so NOT Cornell) I definitely get the feeling I'm the only one working hard sometimes. I never see my roomates working (they cheat a TON...like every class). A couple weeks ago my roomate went to study for a test w/ me and was like "umm...so where is the study lounge in the building?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME! lmao. Wats even worse is that there are originally 4 study lounges in the building...one on each side of the building...simple. We LIVE in a converted study lounge. I wonder where the others could be if we r living on the corner of a building in a converted study lounge? hmmm...DUMB ARSE! lol</p>
<p>hahaha.... it'll definitely be a big change next yr...a great change :)</p>
<p>Iliana: Uris Library is open 24 hours except on friday and saturday nights, its a good place to spend the night if you need to since there are plenty of couches in downstairs :-)
Olin library is right across from Uris and is open til 2am on weeknights. Both libraries have cafes (Olin's is much larger with sofas etc.)
Mann library is probably the biggest in terms of space to study and its a close walk from North campus, it also has a newly built cafe that will be opening next fall.
RPCC (community center) on North campus is a great place to study alone or in groups, and if you are living in collegetown you can goto Duffield (the nanotech building) in the engineering quad which is very spacious and has a lot of room to work.</p>
<p>in terms of noise level, there are places at every library that are so quiet you can hear a pin drop and also social places where groups can meet... depends on your style of study. Mann library has a lot of individual rooms you can reserve for a few hours, you have to get a key downstairs.</p>
<p>I desperately need a college P R O W L E R username/password I have 2 weeks to decide on my college and I dont want to shell out 40 bucks to compare 3 schools. Please I am desperate if someone could email me or contact me I would be so appreciative. Any help would be great. This is honestly not a joke, I really am asking a generous person if I could "borrow" their username/password just for a day and then you can change your password or something. All I need is one day to compare these schools so please please please if anyone has a college P R O W L E R username/password could you lend it to me. Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Actually, if you don't mind, I'd really really appreciate that too!
Especially because I have no way of getting the college p r o w l e r books for two of the three colleges i'm deciding between.</p>
<p>College ******* is not a good source for deciding among colleges to attend. (It is useful, at most, as one of several sources when identifying schools to apply to.) The comments are primarily of kids who either hate or love a school, not of the majority who are happy at a school. Better to continue to ask specific questions on CC, and read the school's newspaper online to find out what is happening at each place.</p>
<p>this caught my attention from college *******:</p>
<p>The Ten BEST Things About Cornell
1. Outdoor scenery
2. Slope Day
3. Great friends
4. Appel Commons
<strong><em>5. Fridays off</em></strong>
6. Sledding down Libe Slope on cafeteria trays
7. Club management
8. Orientation week after freshman year
9. Wine tours
10. Greek life</p>
<p>Fridays off? what does that mean?</p>
<p>It means the entire school shuts down every Friday.</p>
<p>no classes on fridays? so 3 day weekends?</p>
<p>haha no. I'm just kidding.</p>
<p>Some classes do indeed only take place on M's and W's so with some creative maneuvering you can potentially have Friday's off but most people still have class on Fridays.</p>
<p>thanks for clearing that up, lol. College "Prohwlehr" shouldn't list that "Fridays off" without details :P</p>
<p>That also has to be one of the most pathetic lists I have ever seen.</p>
<ol>
<li>Outdoor scenery</li>
<li>Slope Day-this is just one day when you can drink yourself silly and act like a jack@$$ without people thinking you're an idiot</li>
<li>Great friends-apparently, great friends only exist at Cornell</li>
<li>Appel Commons-I'm assuming they're talking about the food; otherwise, I don't know what is so attractive about Appel
<strong><em>5. Fridays off</em></strong>-already discussed</li>
<li>Sledding down Libe Slope on cafeteria trays</li>
<li>Club management-I don't even know what this means</li>
<li>Orientation week after freshman year-sophomores, juniors, and seniors have an extra week of summer. Yay!!!</li>
<li>Wine tours</li>
<li>Greek life</li>
</ol>
<p>hahah, i guess that site can't be trusted. They probably write all their stuff based on very little information. Attending Cornell is probably the only reliable way of knowing all the things that go on in that university.</p>
<p>Let's make our own:</p>
<ol>
<li>The waterfalls you pass on your way to class</li>
<li>Sunsets over West Campus</li>
<li>The most delicious college food, and that includes Okenshields, not just Appel and RPCC</li>
<li>classmates that are smart but not obnoxious</li>
<li>You can take a class in almost anything</li>
<li>You can join a club about almost anything</li>
<li>Large campus so 1) you don't have to see people from H.S. if you don't want to, and 2) you never run out of people to meet</li>
<li>Free or very cheap concerts</li>
<li>PE classes</li>
</ol>
<p>Feel free to add and/or comment.</p>
<p>There was also a thread like the post above with a TON of great things about Cornell. That may take some navigating through the site to find tho...</p>
<p>Some of the websites that rate the universities have no clue what they are talking about... Not to put down college p r o w l e r, but I just when I believe that Cornell is not rated a B+ in terms of academics and there are some universities that I just do not believe should be ahead of it.</p>