<p>Hi Freshman Hotel Schoolies/ists…How’s your uni life so far…Freshman…(boys/girls) when compared with high school?</p>
<li><p>Friends (more or less, easy to make friends? cranky or superfacial?)</p></li>
<li><p>Homesick…if any</p></li>
<li><p>During lessons, lecturers & friends…helpful, fake, bragging, cutthroat</p></li>
<li><p>Homework…stressful, heavy…copy cat…procastrination</p></li>
<li><p>Free-time…linger around…noone to talk to…or partying all the time…drugs…sex…</p></li>
<li><p>Interrelation…with human and environment…miserable or…</p></li>
<li><p>If given to choose again, is Hotel School still your first choice…WHY</p></li>
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<p>hotelies have a fair amount of work to do, but as a whole the major is regarded to be one of the least arduous cornell offers... no where near engineering or premed, to be sure. i wouldnt worry too much about the workload.</p>
<p>the hotelies i know all talk about how great their experience has been so far; they all know eachother and are good friends. it sounds like a blast.</p>
<p>it all varies by student. I'm sure there are some hotelies who are study study bookworms, but since almost all of the hotelies are very social and outgoing, most of them are very friendly, and many like to party. This really doesn't differentiate them from the social students in any other college though. Even very serious students can party. One of the hardest partiers I know is an Engineering Physics and has a first semester GPA in the high 3s.</p>
<p>Anyway, to answer the questions, (as an arts student, but I will try to give the hotelie opinion where it matters) here we go:</p>
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<li><p>Friends are easy. You're not dormed by college, it's just random within the freshman class, so there are tons of freshman who don't know anyone either the first month or so looking to meet people as much as possible. It's totally acceptable to walk up to some random guy or girl on north campus and be like "hi my names ____," in that first month. Cornell students are in general very friendly, very tolerant, and very smart, which makes a lot of them very interesting people. There are some fakey superficial ones, but there are more than enough dynamic, exciting, and unusual (in a good way, like foreigners from pakistan and olympic-hopeful squash players) people here to counteract that.</p></li>
<li><p>Your hall or fraternity becomes your family. I get homesick when I go home because I miss my friends here. The only time I've actually been homesick here was when I broke up with my girlfriend a while back. My friends in the hall really stepped up though--they knew I was upset and everyone was always stopping by to say "whats up, come by if you need anything" and it was great.</p></li>
<li><p>i've only heard about RUMORS of cutthroatness in a few really competitive majors like bio and such. I'm in a physics course for engineers, and engineering is very competitive here GPA-wise, but in lab everyone talks socially between groups and has a good time during our experiments, rather than unplugging someone's data collection device or something malicious and cutthroat. as i've said above, so many of the people here are great.</p></li>
<li><p>homework gets stressful when you procrastinate. if you put in a few hours a day you'll never be stressed with HW. I procrastinate instead of taking my own advice, so i'm always stressed by HW :) yeah, some students copy if they don't have time to do a problem set, but it all works out in the end because they have to learn the material anyway to do well on the prelims...</p></li>
<li><p>it depends on the day of the week. people in my hall just chill, talk, play poker, sometimes go to movies at night, drink, go skiing, w/e. sometimes i'll go play piano or waste time on college confidential. there's a decent amount to keep you sane except for a couple select weeks, right around prelims.</p></li>
<li><p>umm as a human i relate to the trees very well?...what in gods name does this question try and ask?</p></li>
<li><p>all the hotelies i meet are happy with it. if you want to go into hospitality there really isn't a better college environment to be in. I'm sure this happens in hotel too: as an arts student, there are those stressful times right before big tests or when you're overwhelmed when you say to yourself "why didn't I just go to a state school." Believe me, i always laugh at myself for thinking that a few days later. It's just awesome here. I once told someone I picked cornell because of "the vibrancy and energy i felt the minute i stepped on campus" or something like that. It really comes down to something just a little ways beyond words. you really have to be here to understand what it's like.</p></li>
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