<p>Norcalguy, what are you talking about?</p>
<p>"He picked up his first collegiate shutout in his first start, making 22 saves in a 6-0 win over Union."</p>
<p>I'd rather have a big sack of potatoes in net over the true sieve that is Davenport</p>
<p>haha I stand corrected. It was actually Tory Davenport and Scrivens came in to relieve him. I was pretty hammered before the game and my friend (who was supposed to be paying attention) told me that it was Scriven's first start. I didn't even notice that Davenport started and got taken out. I specifically asked her why Scrivens was in the game instead of Davenport and that's what she told me. Never trust a female during a sports game.</p>
<p>Hey, do profs allow students to take photos of their blackboards/overheads during lectures? So this way I don't have to take notes by hand (and being in engineering, taking notes using laptop is probably not an option). When I take notes, I find harder to concentrate on the lecture, and I am lazy anyways...</p>
<p>Mak5im, I'm sure they'd <em>let</em> you, but honestly, you might look a little odd taking a picture of the board in the middle of the lecture- the noise might be a little distracting. Many professors post their lectures on blackboard (an online course site that Cornell and many other colleges use- you can browse it as a guest, though you may not be able to gain access to look at specific courses, at blackboard.cornell.edu) or on some other site online, so you can just download them. Those who don't probably write notes in class that mainly consist of problems they want you to do in class, so you're going to have to write anyway. Then there are the professors who don't write their own notes, but instead copy out of the textbook... <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>lol, norcalguy, nice.</p>
<p>Is cornell boring?</p>
<p>Are there any city areas nearby?</p>
<p>What are the best majors in that school?</p>
<p>do people use tablet pc's to take notes???</p>
<p>lol are you guys serious?</p>
<p>Eloquence: Only if you make it boring, otherwise it's great; no; irrelevant.</p>
<p>zymbo: Some do. Only in big lectures. In my 70-person history class, 7 or 8 bring small laptops for notes.</p>
<p>What's the party scene like? Do people ever go to NYC over weekends and stuff?</p>
<p>Cornell has 13,000 undergrads, 7,000 grads, Ithaca College has 10,000 students, and Ithaca itself has 30,000 residents so it is a pretty active place. Cornell has parties n frats n such. Some people do go to NYC but its 4 1/2-5 hours away.</p>
<p>People don't go to NYC just to party</p>
<p>Sorry for bumping such an old topic, but there's a lot of good info here.</p>
<p>What's the most important thing that most undergrads forget to bring to Cornell?</p>
<p>I forgot to bring up clothes. Or rather I brought up clothes but not for 60-80 degree weather which occured for most of August, September and part of October last year. </p>
<p>I would think small possessions which aren't used so regularly would be forgotten, like nailclippers or batteries.</p>
<p>Hey cornellstudent09 thanks for the opportunity. I have been admitted as a transfer student to CALS. I think I would like to stay in one of the meal plan houses (Cook, Becker, Bethe). 1) Any comments or opinions about which is best? 2) Do I actually get a choice of which house I want or will they just assign me? 3) I would like a single room if possible. Is there any special way to go about making that request?</p>
<p>49mercury:
1) If you live in Bethe, Cook, or Becker, you will be required to be on a house meal plan. The house meal plan lets you eat at either Cook, Becker, Bethe (doesn't matter which on you live in) as many times as you want during the day. Each of these houses also has a pantry where they store the desserts left over from dinner as well as some other food and coffee/tea. Furthermore, each of these dinners has their own "house dinner night" on wednesdsays where they make the dining hall really nice and have decorations and serve food from some particular type of culture. I would recommend getting the house meal plan that also gives you $500 BRBs because you'll use your BRBs alot when you're on central between classes and when you want a sandwich from the West Side Grill late at night on West Campus.</p>
<p>2)I'm not really sure how they're doing this for incoming transfers this upcoming semester. But Im pretty sure that they've already set a side a decent number of rooms on a particualr floor in one of the houses specifically for transfer students who don't want to be on North. Your best bet is to call housing ASAP so they can tel you what to do and so you can get your request in early.</p>
<p>3) You'll probably have to do a housing request form online. You can pick a single when you do that. Like I said I would call housing first and ask them which house they're placing transfers in on West next semester.</p>
<p>I wouldn't get the house meal plan with $500 BRBs because that one is exactly the same as the cheapest meal plan with I think $250 BRBs. However, it's $255 cheaper. So it's cheaper to get the cheaper meal plan then add $250 BRBs.</p>
<p>cornellstudent09 Thanks for your reply. I have a few more questions
1) It seems like Cornell wants to group the incoming transfers together. I would rather not be housed like that. I think I will get aclimated quicker into the Cornell culture if I am with students who have been there for a few years and know they're way around rather than with other newbees like me. Is there any way around the transfer grouping policy? 2) I have never been to Cornell, but in all the literature it seems like a huge campus. Are the logistics of getting around a bit of a problem (especially in the snow and ice)? For instance what would you estimate the walking time to be from, say Cook House to Ho Plaza? 3) Is a bicycle practical, i.e., do they keep the campus paths clear enough in the winter to make a bike usable?</p>
<p>A bike is almost useless due to the hills. It's about 10 min walk from Cook to Ho.</p>
<p>Thank you Cornellians for your helpful reponses. I posted this one elsewhere, but you guys seem to be very knowable, so I thought I would ask you directly.</p>
<p>I have been accepted as a third year transfer into CALS. My first choice of a major was Biology, but I was accepted as a Science of Natural and Environmental Systems (SNES). Does anyone know anything about this major? While the SNES major covers some biology, it seems to also involve some social/economic/political environmental policy courses. How different is a SNES major for a traditional Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major? As a straight-up Bio-Guy, will I be disappointed in either the curriculum content or the post-grad opportunities offered by the SNES major? For instance, is SNES a plausible path to med. school? Is SNES an academically difficult major? (Supposedly it is an interdisciplinary major, so I think it involves more chem and physics than a biol major. Do you know if that is correct? As a transfer student, is it possible to change my major? Should I try to change before or after I get to Cornell?</p>