<p>Are there any interesting CS-related extracurriculars? How is recruiting? Is the isolation of the campus any problem for getting internships etc.? Are there any opportunities for working at tech companies in Ithaca during the year? Do many students do research projects with professors? Are CS students generally happy or stressed and miserable? Is there a collaborative atmosphere? Is it easy for freshman to meet others in the department, for study groups etc.? What fraction of kids end up switching out of CS (are they fleeing engineering altogether?) and why? How much free time do CS students tend to have? How supportive is the environment for women? Thanks.</p>
<p>Are there any interesting CS-related extracurriculars?
Yes, lots.</p>
<p>How is recruiting?
Good, but perhaps not as wide a range of companies come for the career fair compared to some other top CS schools.</p>
<p>Is the isolation of the campus any problem for getting internships etc.?
No. The location of your school campus is not relevant to whether you are hired or not.</p>
<p>Are there any opportunities for working at tech companies in Ithaca during the year?
Some, but most of these will be student-run startups unless you can find someone who will let you work remotely (you’d probably need to know them beforehand, either through connections or by working there as an intern.) There are also programming jobs on campus.</p>
<p>Do many students do research projects with professors?
Yes.</p>
<p>Are CS students generally happy or stressed and miserable?
Depends.</p>
<p>Is there a collaborative atmosphere?
Yes, very.</p>
<p>Is it easy for freshman to meet others in the department, for study groups etc.?
Depends on how outgoing you are.</p>
<p>What fraction of kids end up switching out of CS (are they fleeing engineering altogether?) and why?
I don’t know many kids who have done this at all. In fact, a lot of engineers are switching INTO it.</p>
<p>How much free time do CS students tend to have?
Depends on your course selection. If your goal is to have a lot of free time while still maintaining great grades, that is certainly possible, but depending on how efficient you are, it may not be very feasible to also do a minor or second major or take very difficult electives on top of requiring all that. However, some people are able to balance even that much.</p>
<p>How supportive is the environment for women? Thanks.
Not sure, as I’m not a woman, but I’ve never noticed anything that would suggest that it’s not welcoming to women.</p>
<p>Based on what you have seen or experienced, do cs kids in coe tend to get better internships and jobs than the cs kids in cas?</p>
<p>This would be the type of student-run start-up @zenzic referenced. (Am not sure if that is what he intended, but it is one I know of.)</p>
<p><a href=“http://elabstartup.com”>http://elabstartup.com</a></p>
<p>I don’t know anything about CS @ Cornell but am hoping that others can respond and help us both learn!</p>
<p>I wonder how much interaction there will be between the Ithaca & NYC campuses once the Roosevelt Island campus is operational. The early classes are housed at Google in NYC and I believe there will be an MBA program that spends perhaps the summer in NYC and then the fall & spring terms in Ithaca.<br>
<a href=“http://tech.cornell.edu”>http://tech.cornell.edu</a>
<a href=“Johnson Cornell Tech MBA - Cornell Tech”>Johnson Cornell Tech MBA - Cornell Tech;
<p>I realize this is not helping to answer your question, but I do think there will be increased collaboration between Ithaca and NYC. The university presently runs the Campus to Campus bus three times daily in each direction between Manhattan & Ithaca.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. The elab thing looks very interesting, I’ll have to check out all those links. </p>
<p>@CT1417, that bus is useful to know about, though considering it’s about 4 hours away, I don’t see people taking a bus back and forth very often. The program in NYC is for grads, but might offer summer opportunities?</p>
<p>Bump for my question?</p>
<p>@asdad77, As I understand, they take the same CS classes and I think I remember someone saying on this forum that it doesn’t make much difference. She went for engineering anyhow. The way I look at it, it’s probably easier to transfer out of engineering than in, if you change your mind. We haven;t gone trough the requirements very carefully yet but she has some advanced classes and when we looked at this before she applied, it seemed like they should make the requirements not too onerous even for someone who likes electives…</p>
<p>It seems like every Fall graphics and database classes are offered, with practicum. But these 2 classes are offered at exactly the same time. Is there any way to take the 2 classes in the same semester?</p>
<p>“Based on what you have seen or experienced, do cs kids in coe tend to get better internships and jobs than the cs kids in cas?”</p>
<p>Not at all. If you’re concerned, note that you don’t actually need to list your college on your resume - there is no reason to if you don’t want to.</p>
<p>“It seems like every Fall graphics and database classes are offered, with practicum. But these 2 classes are offered at exactly the same time. Is there any way to take the 2 classes in the same semester?”</p>
<p>Yes, but you will have to jump through hoops. Just take them different semesters if you can…</p>
<p>Thanks for the response zenzic!</p>
<p>@zenzic you said that there were programming jobs on campus. Are these relatively easy to find/obtain? Also, what is the nature of these jobs, like are they jobs where you create a website, etc.?</p>