<p>for admits who will be atending Cornell next year ...whats the first thing you will do after you have settled in???</p>
<p>I know I will go get some of Cornell's famous ice cream (seeing as how it will be august) and then go check out the Cornell store to pick up some new Cornell gear lol</p>
<p>Get as far away from my parents as possible, then go get drunk in Ctown, lol</p>
<p>you should all take the swim test the first or second day to get it over with</p>
<p>what swim test?</p>
<p>I guess they forgot to mention it in their admit letter. You are required to pass the swim test or take some swim classes.</p>
<p>^not if your a transfer :)</p>
<p>yeah i think i read that somewhere and it sounded really odd to me. why the hell do we need a swim test?</p>
<p>im not that far yet. im still wondering how the hell ill be able to lug all my crap from az to cornell, on a plane, by myself. hopefully ill have a cool roommate and we can go off and explore together</p>
<p>Many top schools require swim tests.</p>
<p>The first thing I will do is take a nice, long nature walk.</p>
<p>meet new ppl then walk around</p>
<p>are you serious about the swim test?</p>
<p>have you guys gotten your fin aid offers yet? i just got an email saying i have missing info and then i find out that i can’t log in to the financial aid website. wonderful.</p>
<p>Actually…I think that only 8 schools still require a swim test. Although…that’s an old number and I’m sure it’s changed.</p>
<p>There are sooooo many threads about the swim test. But since I have some time to post, I’ll give you a little of info about the test.</p>
<p>1.) Transfers are not required to take the swim test</p>
<p>2.) Guys and gals take their tests in separate facilities. Guys in Teagle and the gals are in Helen Newman.</p>
<p>3.) The test is easy. You jump in the pool and have to swim 3 laps (lengths) of the pool. One lap on your front, one lap on your back and the third lap is your choice. </p>
<p>4.) If you do not pass your swim test, you’ll have to take a semester of a beginner’s swim class. </p>
<p>5.) Just take your test during orientation and get it over with. If you take it anytime after orientation, you’ll have to pay a $30 fee. However, you can also opt to skip the test and enroll in the aforementioned beginner’s swim class. You will take the swim test at the end of the course.</p>
<p>What happened to the environmentally conscious university I had originally applied to? I simply can not bring myself to fathom that all of us here would tolerate such behavior by our beloved Cornell. The necessary means to effectively cleanse a pool of all the various bacteria found on this planet raises obscene environmental concerns with the industrial manufacturing of chlorine and the resources put forth in making a pool sanitary.</p>
<p>Personally, to stand up against this atrocity, I will be taking my swim test in the middle of February on the eve of the year’s largest snowstorm. Jumping into the gorge I will swim from the north campus and promptly die of hypothermia once I reach shore.</p>
<p>Pools, I laugh at their futility, for I shall look to commune with nature.</p>
<p>Lostforwords— I am from AZ too and whats more is I am a girl with a ****load of clothes and shoes, so I am really sure not what I am going to do, lol!</p>
<p>I am from California and I think I will ship some of my things. Like get some of those bags where you can suck the air out and compress them more. Just as an idea for you other West Coasters!</p>
<p>yeah, how exactly do we get all our stuff there??? I’m not planning on driving from Texas. That’s a little long. And I’ve no idea how anyone is expected to move with the limited amount of space we’re allowed on an airplane…</p>
<p>How have y’all done it in the past?</p>
<p>Buy big suitcases. I got over 50kg of stuff across the Pacific Ocean in one go. Tack the weight limit onto family member’s allowance as well. :p</p>
<p>the compressed bags sound like a good idea. i wonder how much shipping all our junk would cost? jeez, moving sounds expensive. plus i have a giant mini fridge. it is less mini than giant. i guess i wont be needing that. i sure as hell am not going to be paying to send the damn thing. and when you leave at the end of the semester its going to be even more tedious getting all the stuff back too!</p>
<p>rl4, what part of az are you from?</p>
<p>Scottsdale! How about you?</p>
<p>I am from FL and I had all my things shipped up this year.</p>
<p>Everything that I bought just for Cornell, along with the other things I felt I needed I packed in boxes. Then me and my mom drove to the nearest FedEx a few days before my flight up to Cornell and had them ship the packages to the FedEx in downtown Ithaca and hold it there till pickup (that’s an option you can choose when shipping). </p>
<p>When we got up to Ithaca we rented a car and picked up all the boxes from the FedEx and moved in.</p>
<p>ALSO, BIG TIME SAVER ALERT!</p>
<p>Bed Bath and Beyond every year has something called Pack N’ Ship (I think it’s called that). Basically you go to your local BBB and you sign up for the FREE service. They give you a list of things that your school recommends to buy and outlaws in the room, then hand you a gift registry machine (the scanning machine you use for your wedding and baby shower registries) and you go around and scan all of the things you want them to have waiting for you in the BBB in Ithaca. They will either get the items out of storage in Ithaca and keep it separate and tagged for you, or if they don’t have it in stock in the Ithaca store, they will ship it up free of charge for you. Then, when you get into Ithaca, you can pick up your entire shipment, and pay for it all up there. You can even say you don’t want some of the items they shipped up and you aren’t forced to buy it.</p>
<p>GREAT SERVICE</p>
<p>^ that sounds great, but ia ctually dont think ill need to buy too many things. the FedEx idea also sounds like a good idea, but i dont think my mother will be coming with me when i leave, which means i couldnt rent a car to go pick stuff up.</p>
<p>i just moved to Goodyear with my boyfriend (we live in an apt. since i graduated early in december ive already moved out). </p>
<p>i think cornell should pick up all of us on the west coast on a giant tour bus so we can take all our stuff, lol.</p>