<p>I'm an ILRie sophomore transfer.</p>
<p>Besides the distance from ILR, what are some pros/cons?</p>
<p>I'd appreciate it. THANKS!</p>
<p>live whereever all the other transfers are living, which I assume is Hasbrock.</p>
<p>COOK
PROS:
- closer to campus and ILR
- nice, new rooms
- dining hall and pantry in the house
- a lot of in-house acitivties and shows
CONS:
- if you're not living with tranfers on this floor then I wouldn't live here</p>
<p>HASBROCK:
PROS:
-most transfers are living here
- nice apartments</p>
<p>CONS:
- far from campus
- not close to anything really</p>
<p>Cook hands down. Hasbrouck is detached from everything. It's also on North campus, which is mainly for freshmen, so most of your friends would not live near you and would not make the 25-minute+ trek to visit you. Also, Hasbrouck is mainly housing for grad students w/ families, and it's usually verrrry quiet and there isn't too much fun stuff going on. Cook is new, has beatuiful rooms, and it's own dining hall (though you may get sick of its monotony...)</p>
<p>Cook is really nice, and for the most part, there are 'transfer floors' that are consistent of mostly transfers (I lived on it last year) - plus you'll have access to transfer-only events and other transfer-specific activities run by the program, despite being far away.
It's really a shame that they got rid of the TC.</p>
<p>schrodinger - what you say was true 2 years ago. </p>
<p>Hasbrouck is the best place for transfers. why? it's where all of the other transfers are, and it's where you'll make friends. They're not detached from everything, in fact they're very close to the best dining on campus (very important!). Although Cook is newer (not necessarily bigger), everybody in Cook has already chosen to live with their friends, it may be a little hard to make more friends as a transfer being just placed in the extra rooms (not sure what they'll be doing this year yet). You'll be walking 15-20 minutes uphill to join all of the other transfer activities, I expect most to be moved from west campus to north campus with the relocation of the main hub of transfer housing. </p>
<p>Although Cook does have a dining hall, it's nothing to get excited for - just the same things every day. Appel/RPU are far better.</p>
<p>Dining isn't really a reason to pick either place. You'll get sick of either dining hall(s) eventually.</p>
<p>I'd say stick with Hasbrouck so you can meet other transfers. You guys are all going through the same thing, so you're more eager to make new friends.</p>
<p>"Dining isn't really a reason to pick either place. You'll get sick of either dining hall(s) eventually."</p>
<p>Live on west and eat at Cook everyday - if you got sick of the dining halls on north, west will be a whole new challenge like never before.</p>
<p>the food on west (becker, cook, bethe) sucks in comparison to the food on North at Appel and RPU. Living in the Transfer Center lat year, I got very tired of the food on West very very quickly.</p>
<p>Also, if they place you on a floor in Becker with all transfers (which they did with some of my friends) then it won't be a big deal and you can live on West. Last year they had an entire floor or section with about 40+ transfer students living in Becker who couldn't fit in the Transfer Center at the Class of '17. </p>
<p>I recommend that you live with tranfers whether in Hasbrock or if they have their own floor somewhere on West.</p>
<p>Yup I'm on a transfer floor in Becker and can't wait! I really lucked out!</p>
<p>Honestly, the transfer center isn't everything it cracked up to be. Speaking as a transfer, I found the native Cornellians to be more chill people. Unless you are of the type who likes to party almost every weekend, it's harder being in the TC than in a regular Cornell dorm. Not that I'm some kind of libertarian pinnacle of non-conformity or anything, but transfers in the TC seem less friendly (as in don't really hang out that much with) people who act differently than they do as opposed to Cornell students or even transfer in other dorms.</p>
<p>schrodinger is correct...</p>
<p>ps: welcome to CC cat ;)</p>
<p>COOK.
Definitely.
No ifs or buts.
Cook has "transfer sections" where you'll be living around other transfers, so Hasbrouck's supposed advantage in that area is nil. Besides, you will NOT want to walk half an hour to all of your classes! You'll get to ILR from Cook in half the time. You also do NOT want to be living around freshmen all the time. Nothing much goes on on North campus. West is where all the real action is.</p>
<p>if u want cook..... how are u going to get into Cook anyway</p>
<p>"Besides, you will NOT want to walk half an hour to all of your classes! You'll get to ILR from Cook in half the time."
you forgot to mention the big hill you have to walk up. Would you rather walk longer and flatter or shorter but MUCH steeper?? </p>
<p>"Nothing much goes on on North campus."
Did you live on North campus at all?? I never did, but my gf did - and most of the time we ended up no North Camups becuase that's where the big hub of activities we liked were. </p>
<p>"West is where all the real action is"
Dude, I lived on West. It was great, I'd totally do it again - but to say it's where all the real action is just isn't right. First it's collegetown (where the social upperclassmen live), then North (where Cornell puts much of its after hours on campus activities), and then it's West (where the smallest # of on campus students live) - living on west I either went to collegetown or north campus to do things. </p>
<p>Here's another thing con-west campus: There's construction going on every day from 7 am - 6 pm. For me, it was hard to nap, study, have a peaceful conversation with all of the machines and jackhammers. It just came with the territory, but I still preferred living with transfers. </p>
<p>The living arrangements on west should be nice, but I'd go to north myself.</p>
<p>okay, this this with a grain of salt since the hasbrouck I always knew was either 100% grad or mostly grad. it is a part of cayuga heights, like the townhouses, and so they are in the jurisdiction of the CHPD. The grad students who live there and the families who live around there will NOT tolerate noise. This is why that area is normall y very quiet. So I can see those who are social will most likely seek other avenues like CT. now, Unless u memorize the free bus schedule and willing to come back to north by the last bus (probably 1ish), it is a LONG trek from CT (where you would go to hang out w/the other upper class, eat in restaurants, etc) to the hasbrouck. It is a 8-10 minutes DOWNHILL trek to ACH (cook)</p>
<p>secondly, yes the hill is STEEP but it is only 2-3 minutes (if you're slow like me) to make it across. It is a 5-7 minutes walk total from cook to the statler. From hasbrouck, you can bet at least 20 minutes. So walk uphill for 2-3 minutes but sleep in an extra 15 minutes or walk 20 minutes on even ground and wake up earlier?</p>
<p>living in cook has a lot of advantages. Whoever says that living on west is the least "happening" is wrong, especially if you live as a part of the west campus housing system. Each house has pretty much an activity each day, from tea with professors to resident's piano concerts to house guest events. like I said in another post, you can easily rub shoulders with very famous house guests who visit cornell. okay, I doubt the dalai lama will be staying in one of the guest room, but who knows, I won't be surprised if one of the houses are hosting a breakfast/lunch/dinner w/the dalai lama. that is something I'm not sure hasbrouck can offer.</p>
<p>for me, it's west campus over hasbrouck.</p>
<p>"I won't be surprised if one of the houses are hosting a breakfast/lunch/dinner w/the dalai lama"</p>
<p>that would be the highlight of my life...well, kinda lol sounds unlikely tho haha</p>
<p>If you have the option of living on a floor with all transfers on West then do so. You'll be closer to Collegetown as well.</p>
<p>FYI: The house professor in Cook did the best he could to get the Dalai Lama in the guest suite for a night, but sadly, failed. :( He's still in talks to get an event hosted at the house for that weekend. How cool is that?</p>
<p>"Whoever says that living on west is the least "happening" is wrong"</p>
<p>so maybe I lived on west with my eyes closed the whole time? I didn't say it isn't 'happening', but it's not collegetown or north.</p>
<p>how can a transfer choose to live in cook?</p>