<p>Does anyone know of any parties during orientation week : )</p>
<p>there will be some house parties in collegetown, though orientation week is a little weird since the frat's aren't allowed to have any parties. As your orientation leader when you get on campus.</p>
<p>your orientation leader probably knows of some and might invite you as well.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you have a good OL, he or she will tell you where the parties are. That said, it's not that hard to find anything. Walk down college ave, cook, catherine, and eddy around 10-11 PM and look for the houses with a million people on the porch.</p>
<p>All the frats have parties in college town at their annexes. You won't have trouble finding tons of parties. Hopefully the cops won't be as toolish as they were last disorientation week.</p>
<p>Yeah the cops sucked last year.</p>
<p>Well with the new IFC laws passed this year, I can assure everyone the cops will be more toolish then ever. But we all know they'll never stop us >=)</p>
<p>My advice: Start with the big parties on College Ave and Eddy St first, when those get dangerously crowded/broken up/out of beer move to the connecting perpendicular streets, specifically Catherine and Cook(C0ck). After that, move to the flanking parallel streets of Linden, Bryant, Stewart, Delaware.</p>
<p>Remember kiddies, don't try to be safe and always throw caution out the window!</p>
<p>Someone tell me this Q & A on the Class of 2010 website is wrong because it made me sad.</p>
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Q: In one of the packets we got, Cornell recommended attending the scheduled night activities instead of collegetown parties. From your experience, were the night activities pretty well attended and were they worthwhile to meet people?</p>
<p>A: I know every upperclassmen (except some of the best volunteers) will say "you have to come to this party on Linden Ave or Cook or College Ave"... and while this is obviously a lot more fun for them than they imagine being at yourorientation events, they are not thinking about what is best for you.</p>
<p>You can party in collegetown or a frat ANY time between Sept 2006 and May 2010. But you only have 1 Orientation; 1 chance where you're guaranteed to meet other freshmen in a safe environment. When you're new to Cornell, the best way to meet people is not starting out getting lost on Cook and Eddy with/with out alcohol in your system. I guarantee you that while you will MEET people if you go to a party in collegetown, but your chances of actually being friends with them long term or soooo much lower than an event with other freshmen. You're not at all on the same footing as even 25% of the people in collegetown. I've lived in collegetown during Orientation for 2 years, I can tell you a lot of the freshman groups (it's soooooooo incredibly obvious it's almost sad) that wind up in Collegetown during Orientation, think their going to discover the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, meanwhile the 10 or 15 kids who go together (either from same floor, or OL group, or from a hometown) wind up spending MOST of the night just with the other 10 or 15 kids because they really aren't meeting many other similar aged students amongst the many many thousand upperclassmen.</p>
<p>You will not make a mistake attending Orientation events.
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<p>Wait wth...you don't want to attend the orientation events in the beginning? .... why does this make you sad??? I'd rather bond with other Freshman the first week so we can experience the new place together. Whether this is at some college event where you'll meet a lot people and make new friends or a crazy party experience where you stay with this group of 10-15 kids which will at least bring u closer and u'll have a story to tell lol. w/e He does make a good point about parties happening for all four years as compared to a few days of orientation that you will only get one chance to utilize.</p>
<p>I agree with the guy who gave the advise.</p>
<p>Go to parties. You can attend events before parties if you want to.</p>
<p>yeah since when do parties end at 12 or even start before then lol</p>
<p>My one problem with Cornell is how early the parties end...but there are always after hours.</p>
<p>whaaattt really? like how early? because they got broken up/ran out of beer?</p>
<p>I say go to the orientation events, and if you aren't enjoying yourself, go to some party. the events end way before the parties end, either way, so it's not a real problem if you want to go to a comedy show and THEN out to a party.</p>
<p>parties end between one and three in my experience, depending on the attendence.</p>
<p>The parties aren't as crappy for freshmen as the Q & A that I quoted says, right?</p>
<p>I partied 9 days in a row for orientation week; it was awesome.</p>
<p>spanks tell me more about your experience with orientation week??</p>
<p>i will be a junior transfer so the only reason i mentioned parties was because i didnt want to be around freshmen all week long, any thoughts?</p>
<p>yeah what do the transfers normally do? are the parties mostly freshman or semi-mixed</p>