<p>I'm reading these posts and replies to them and I have to say that the people here are very serious about college. At my school no one gives two you know what about college. When they ask me why Cornell or Columbia I say why not. i want to be around people who love to learn and actually want to change the world. In an Ivy League school you'll meet a bunch of people you can't meet at your local community college (like the one in my neighborhood were a large number of my peers go to.) I'm from NYC and in my burrow a lot of the people are blue color works who just say go to a community college graduate and get a city job. I'm not like that. This is why I wish to go to an Ivy League school like Cornell. Not only for the world famous professors but also for the people that study there and what they could become. Who agrees?</p>
<p>cornell people party a lot haha. no one wants to learn</p>
<p>the fact that you can’t spell borough or “blue collar” makes me question whether you can handle a top school.</p>
<p>you guys are d-bags. I agree with OP, but don’t think of yourself above them… untill you get in =P haha</p>
<p>Thanks for pointing out my typos instead of looking at the big picture. I assure you I can handle it.</p>
<p>By the way burrow is spelled correctly. I think you mean why can’t I distinguish between two words that sound alike but have different meanings. Burrow or the geographic residence borough. And forgetting one L and not realizing it is no need to say such provocative, skeptical statements.</p>
<p>no need to get upset about that spell-checking, it doesn’t even need a response.</p>
<p>although I agree that there is a lot of partying and all the other sorts of non-academic things one expects at college, I think most people at Cornell are in school to learn. this is, at least for me, way different from high school: there you could not assume that anyone cared at all about school. there was no common ground in saying “oh I have so many tests right now!” because lots of kids just didn’t even care about studying and would just blow it all off. at Cornell you can generally assume that whether or not someone is a hardcore library-dweller, they probably care somewhat about what’s going on with their classes.</p>
<p>faustarp says it best. Even the most dissolute person at Cornell cares about their academic well-being.</p>
<p>It wasn’t just forgetting one “L”.</p>
<p>Oldmoney
Yes</p>
<p>‘In an Ivy League school you’ll meet a bunch of people you can’t meet at your local community college’.</p>
<p>…It’s not like you only have the two choices of an Ivy League School or a ‘local community college’. There are many many lower ranked school/non-ivy leagues where you’ll get to ‘be around people who love to learn and actually want to change the world’.</p>
<p>Then add the “L” you missed…you get “collor”, which is not a word.</p>
<p>“collar” yes the letter a. Whats your opinion of the statement though?</p>