<p>i've heard these comments quite often from friends who have visited Cornell before. Is this true? Is the town of Ithaca too boring? </p>
<p>Because i'm going into engineering, most people recommended me to go to MIT instead because it's near Boston. fun fun fun?</p>
<p>i would hardly associate MIT with fun fun fun. Cornell is rumored to be cut throat, and ithica is kind of...out there, but it is beautiful with very high cliffs overlooking rivers hundreds of feet down-just in case the pressure ever gets to be too much....</p>
<p>Cornell is not dull and boring. The school has like 20,000 students from all over the world. If you want fun, you will find it. But it is in the middle of nowhere. However, if you like the outdoors and quaint little towns, Ithaca is a great place to study.</p>
<p>"but it is beautiful with very high cliffs overlooking rivers hundreds of feet down-just in case the pressure ever gets to be too much"</p>
<p>That's kind of scary, uvajoe.</p>
<p>yeah...........what are you suggesting? lol. But yeah, I've heard Cornell has a high suicide rate.</p>
<p>That isn't correct. Cornell's suicide rate is not even highest among the Ivies. Cornell had fewer undergraduate suicides than MIT or Harvard in the last decade, and Cornell has more than twice the number of undergrads that Harvard has and more than three times the number of undergrads that MIT has.</p>
<p>Different people need different things. Having an awesome college town, a community of people my own age, countless activities, countless parties, and awesome academics could keep me without the need for a city for a long long time. Middle of nowhere = 10 times more fun in my book. If you hated summer camp and if you can't do without a prada store nearby, however, you might need to look elsewhere.</p>
<p>That's not even mentioning the state parks and the finger lakes. And its place as the cultural center for the whole surrounding middle of nowhere region.</p>
<p>I stayed there every summer I was in college; I never went home.</p>
<p>True -- the outdoors are a huge bonus. Even for people who aren't into hardcore outdoor activities, its awesome to ride a bike around campus to class, go on midnight swims, go on road trips, go skiing/ snowboarding, go to formals in awesome locations, etc.</p>
<p>are there good places to eat at Ithaca?</p>
<p>So i guess there won't be best buy or barnes and nobles? :(</p>
<p>Theres a lot of great places to eat. They have almost every type of ethnic food you could think of. Also there is a Best Buy in pyramid mall, a 5 minute drive off-campus. Theres a Borders there as well. If you only want a Barnes and Nobles, theres one in the Wegmans plaza also just a 5 minute drive off campus.</p>
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<p>source please?</p>
<p>I don't think Ithaca is that small of a town compared to some of the college towns we have visited. Ithaca has a mall and lots of restaurants and stores. It has a big university plus Ithaca College. I think of Hamilton (Colgate) as a "quaint little town". Ithaca is a big town to me.</p>
<p>ccusercc,</p>
<p>that sounds great! thanks</p>