<p>Okay so in the beginning of summer I visted Cornell and loved it. Then I started reading posts and student reviews of Cornell and got now I'm a little freaked out. All I hear is that there is nothing to do, the students aren't friendly, there is a huge work load and it's awful...what gives?</p>
<p>The students certainly are friendly. I don’t know what those folks were talking about.</p>
<p>Ive heard arrogant a couple times</p>
<p>There are what, 13,000 undergraduate students at Cornell.
Some aren’t friendly.
Some are arrogant.
Some are anything else you can name.
Some are likely just like you.</p>
<p>Cornell is not a small liberal arts college, where most people there are fellow travelers and march to the same beat. The huge diversity of colleges, programs of study there
guarantees this is not the case.</p>
<p>Everyone there is not the same.</p>
<p>i totally understand that not everyone is the same, it’s just disheartening how much negativity i’ve been hearing</p>
<p>there’s a lot of work, but you’re not at college for some kind of vacation time…and you will always find a few people who are just not that pleasant to be around, but there is no stifling atmosphere on campus that you can’t get away from.</p>
<p>as monydad noted, there are 13,000 undergrads…
now… count exctly how many of those 13,000 CURRENT undergrads are posting here.
not young alums but current undergrads.</p>
<p>very few:
not monydad’s kid
not my kid
not oldforts kid.
you are looking at a very small minority for a perception of the undergrad experience.</p>
<p>most of the current undergrads are out there being busy being undergrads.</p>
<p>not posting.</p>
<p>im friendly! but i wont be here if you decide to go to cornell.</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but I don’t think the posts Ebtrvl has got concerned about are posts on CC. Or if they are, bring them up & let’s address them.</p>
<p>memphismom’s point is still well taken though, whoever they are, they may have their individual opinions/experiences/attitudes. but they do not speak for Cornell, or the experience Ebtrvl will have there. The place is so diverse, people make their own experience, and these are not all the same.</p>
<p>there is a lot of negative stuff with the frat life…</p>
<p>just look at college acb…</p>
<p>campuscsi, you realize you are fascinated by negative gossip sites? Only fringe elements and the angriest and most ****ed off of all people have the need to post on such stupid sites as collegeacb and craigslist rants+raves.</p>
<p>Most people are too busy having fun to post on websites about their experiences. The work load is as big as you want it to be. And fun is what you make of it. Of course Ithaca isn’t NYC, but there are a fair number of concerts and shows throughout the year.</p>
<p>chendrix…that may be so…but if people are posting about it then there is definitely tension out there…</p>
<p>a large part of cornell is “phony” (see catcher in the rye) and sites like rants and raves and collegeacb try to air some of it out…</p>
<p>but such is life…and the OP needs to realize. anywhere you go there will be drama.</p>
<p>IMO the phonies are the ones seeking out online sites to rant about problems they don’t care to take any initiative to understand or to even try to fix.</p>
<p>btw, even though I do post on CC I am still being a normal undergrad the vast majority of the time! 
but I strongly agree that we are not a representative sample. I have literally been posting on online forums half my life, and I don’t think that heavy forum users (not matter what subject they’re posting on) are a good bellweather for anything.</p>