<p>Local atmosphere: ithaca is great...the area around sucks. There's more than enough to do here though. I rarely leave campus and i'm almost never bored. when I do leave campus, ithaca is a cool town. when i drive home, then there's the sucky atmosphere. there is NOTHING for miles around ithaca, but the local area is great with lots of cool stuff. if you drive north, there's still pretty much nothing, but the scenery as you drive along the lake is incredible, especially in fall.</p>
<p>Girls: yeah, not so hot, but there are some hotties, and there are so many girls that even if only 5% of the campus were hot that would amount to over 300 hot girls. and obvously more than 5% of the campus is attractive. And really, it's not great, but the bad part is exaggerated. look at the class of 2009 myspace group and you'll see a cross-section of girls ranging from "OH MY GOD!!!<em>shield eyes</em>" to "wow, she's bangin'!" </p>
<p>nightlife...i really can't complain. I like the frat parties, and there are usually other cool things to do at night like that free skating or "movies on the slope" etc. The hot dance clubs and bars are within the frats in a way.</p>
<p>weather: sucks if you love sun and warmth, but now that it's gotten past that rainy phase in late october through, it's much better. It's cold, but snowflakes drifting down is so much nicer than rain. For a skier, it ain't bad at all here.</p>
<p>I understand where p r o w--...oh wait i didn't say it!...haha, DON'T BAN ME FOOLS! is coming from. If you like big, vibrant cultural centers for your local atmosphere, slews of hot girls (ok, so that really is a fault here at cornell;)), tons of hoppin' bars and clubs (there are some bars in collegetown, and like i said, the frats provide the club scene), and warm, sunny days with blue skies year round, cornell isn't great for you, but there are many people who don't require some of these aspects, want just the opposite, or can cope with the parts that are unappealing because other parts are so great.</p>
<p>prow...'s rankings are not rediculous, they're just biased.</p>