<p>I found this topic on the Yale forum and thought it would be interesting to see some of the Cornell answers:</p>
<p>What are some quirky and little known facts about the university; the kind that only students would know of or experience?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>i forget their names...but there is a family of siblings that work at RPCC...</p>
<p>carmello is one of the better known ones...</p>
<p>There is a set of musical steps behind Olin Library. Pretty unexpected.</p>
<p>When it snows, which is pretty often, students go traying by stealing trays from dinging halls and sledding with them down the slope.</p>
<p>Happy Dave, a quirky cardswiper at a central campus dining hall, is a campus legend. Many unconfirmed rumors about the significance of a "double-tap," his signature move of tapping your card twice on the counter after swiping.</p>
<p>People always praise cornell's ice cream, but fail to mention it's not FDA approved because of its fat content.</p>
<p>Gorge jumping is big.</p>
<p>Dragon Day is when Engineers and Architects come out from hiding and enjoy a day full of shenanigans including drinking, dressing in strange costumes, and depicting a battle between a huge wooden phoenix and a dragon before setting them on fire and dancing around them.</p>
<p>A WWII history course involves going to the professors house and trying out some of the guns from the time period.</p>
<p>Louie's Lunch, Hot Truck, and Nasties are meccas for hungry drunken students.</p>
<p>People spell out messages with rocks at the bottom of the gorge to advertise to people crossing the bridge from above.</p>
<p>It's not specifically cornell, but you can basically get a lunch of free samples by standing in between two dueling asian booths at the pyramid mall food court. </p>
<p>Slope day</p>
<p>I feel like i'm missing a lot...</p>
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It's not specifically cornell, but you can basically get a lunch of free samples by standing in between two dueling asian booths at the pyramid mall food court.
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<p>haha yeah i nearly forgot this...awesome <3</p>
<p>Dragon Day!!!</p>
<p>The whishpering bench near Goldwin Smith.</p>
<p>The fact that you can get on to the roof of most academic building pretty easily.</p>
<p>Figuring out how to drink with Dave the Zamboni guy.</p>
<p>The secret tunnel between Risley and Rand Hall.</p>
<p>I haven't heard of this whispering bench! Do tell, Cayuga?</p>
<p>This is a great thread. I hope more people reply that have been at the 'nell. I am transferring and I think information such as this is much more interesting than what is found on the website and presumably what will be revealed to us at orientation.</p>
<p>Does the whispering bench have to do with the quote?
Alumni</a> efforts will replace Goldwin Smith Bench</p>
<p>Slope Day</p>
<p>The Cornell vs. Harvard hockey game</p>
<p>Zamboni Dave's costumes</p>
<p>riot-proof housing on north built in the 70's hahahaha.</p>
<p>also, URIS Hall, the ugliest effing building I have ever seen is standing in the middle of a supremely gorgeous campus.</p>
<p>Lastly, risley's reputation on campus (regardless if it's deserved or not) is notorious to say the least.</p>
<p>What is Risley's reputation?</p>
<p>Naked parties and artsy people.</p>
<p>I'm sure someone can expand on this though.</p>
<p>risley is awesome...it is a bit out of the box...home to a couple of furs and zoophiles...</p>
<p>Is the Quill & Dagger society a big deal on campus? Do people generally know who is in the society? Is it as prestigious as Skull & Bones at Yale?</p>
<p>The hot girls you see during Orientation week magically disappear when school starts...</p>
<p>Oh, and there's this event called the "White Party", where everybody dresses in...white, obviously. I don't remember which frat organizes it, but it's pretty cool.</p>
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Is the Quill & Dagger society a big deal on campus? Do people generally know who is in the society? Is it as prestigious as Skull & Bones at Yale?
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<p>Quill</a> and Dagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Yeah, I know what it is. I just wanted to know how it was perceived on the Cornell campus and to Cornell students.</p>
<p>to be honest only the most elite students know about it in detail...</p>
<p>often the presidents/heads of clubs and organizations and frats are members...</p>