<p>Hi,
I'm currently an Engineering freshman at Cornell and am probably going to be hosting some high school senior this weekend for the Cornell Days. Can anyone recommend some places I can show him around and general activities for him to do during his stay here. I haven't really explored much of the campus myself except for the gorges and Bebe lake etc. but I don't want him to feel bored.</p>
<p>The Johnson Museum is an amazing building with great views and, not surprisingly, interesting art. Even if you’re not that fascinated by art, there are collections of ancient coins, etc. A chimes concert is fun. The suspension footbridge is cool. The Andrew Dickson White Reading Room in Uris is college out of central casting. Sometimes there’s a cool exhibit in the rare book section of Olin Library (Kroch?).
Take him to CTB. Eat at the Terrace at Statler. Show him Duffield Hall. If the weather’s decent, play frisbee on the arts quad or go to a sporting event. Introduce him to your friends. Don’t get him drunk.</p>
<p>Take him to CTB. Eat at the Terrace at Statler. Show him Duffield Hall. If the weather’s decent, play frisbee on the arts quad or go to a sporting event. Introduce him to your friends. Don’t get him drunk.</p>
<p>I love how you feel the need to mention this. I understand that there are definitely drinking partiers within the pre-frosh, but is this what is expected of students in the university? I probably know the answer to that, but I’m done.</p>
<p>WHen you say hosting, do you mean overnight stay, or just during the day? I’m trying to signup for overnight hosting, but it’s not available for weekends.</p>
<p>I would say take ur person to go eat somewhere with a bunch of friends, and play some sports. Just make him/her feel included :)</p>
<p>well, I’m not a senior yet, but if I was I would want to go to a college party.</p>
<p>Plenty o’ partiers. I know a prefrosh who went to Dartmouth for admitted students activities, got drunk, ended up in the hospital and had his admission revoked. Really. Not a good plan.
I agree about just making the admitted student feel included.</p>
<p>Student hosting isn’t available on either Friday or Saturday nights, hopefully to limit this possibility - my guess. What Cornell student would want to be saddled with that responsibility - providing access of alcohol to an underage high school student? My guess is none of them. The host could be held responsible if something were to happen. Most intelligent high school students understand this and wouldn’t want to put themselves or current students in that sort of predicament.</p>
<p>Shoot hoops on campus, take him down to Stella’s for coffee late at night…I would have gotten a kick out of that when I was in high school (since we’ve already established that you’re not going out drinking together). When I was a bit younger, I would have wanted to stay out late, but now I settle for a coffee at Stellas around 10:30-11, then I head home. Plus, Stellas is nice for chatting up a neighboring table of semi-serious late night studiers, who can usually spare a few minutes to put their work aside. You’ll get to walk around CT at night too, which might be interesting for your student. Walk down to the commons for dinner. Go to the Johnson! Love that suggestion!</p>
<p>IMO:</p>
<p>What these people are really there for is not so much merely to have fun, but to figure out if this is where they want to spend the next four years; what will it really be like here?</p>
<p>To ths end: maybe canvas a bunch of freshman and ask them where they tend to go and hang out, and where they go for fun. And show them some of those places. And do same for some upperclassmen, and show them that.</p>
<p>They’d probably be interested in seeing what living arrangements would be like going forward. I’d show them a west campus dorm, a frat or coop, somebody’s collegetown house.</p>
<p>The cautions about drinking are appropriate. My D1 left HS early, she was looking at colleges when she was 16. She flew to a school in CA by herself for an overnight, and the host took her to a party where some inappropriate things, for her at the time, were going on. It turned her right off, because she was not ready for that at the time.</p>
<p>It’s good to point out options that may be there for them, or not, if they choose to partake down the road. It is not appropriate, or helpful to their decision,(or legal) to provide actual samples at this particular junction.</p>