Relaxed/friendly atmosphere

College Search & Selection
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<p>wishmeluck,</p>

<p>I don't know anything about Hopkins so I cannot comment on that, but I know a LOT about Cornell and can tell you that you are simply repeating an urban legend...</p>

<p>In the aggregate Cornell is hard to classify because it is so diverse. No doubt that engineering and Pre-med are challenging programs that some might even call competitive, but the same can be said of any other engineering or premed program of the same caliber...</p>

<p>As for other disciplines at Cornell, from the Liberal Arts to Hotel Management, I guarantee that you'll find just as many happy go lucky students as you would at any other school of equal quality...</p>

<p>I encourage you to actually investigate this by talking to current students and recent alums and I think you'll find that they all have good things to say about our fair alma mater.</p>

<p>As the song says:</p>

<p>In the music of the waters
As they glide along
In the murmur of the breezes
With their whispered song
In the tuneful chorus blending
With each pealing bell
One refrain seems oft repeated
Hail, all hail, Cornell</p>

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<p>Harvey Mudd is almost too friendly. An alum just offered me (a frosh) an internship for SRI (stanford research institute) paying over $10k for 10 weeks and paying for hotel, food, and a new quadro G5 powermac (with 6 dvi inputs and 6 dvi outputs)...what the heck? Something is wrong here...</p>

<p>Needless to say, I had to turn down the offer. I'm a "rockets for peace" person so JPL is more appealing.</p>

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<p>JPL?
Man what an offer though...</p>

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<p>RocketDA, you were probably wise to turn down the SRI internship. Something tells me the "inputs" involved were not restricted to the 6 dvi.</p>

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<p>i know. yesterday i had no offers and then last night...BOOM! two at once. </p>

<p>it came at a very difficult time...finals. in addition, my brother needed to know whether to book me for hawaii this june. i thought that this was dependent on my internship status but as it turns out, they are willing to give me time off for hawaii. </p>

<p>i hope jpl is cool with time off for hawaii. i will get my official contracts tomorrow... to which i'm signing onto jpl (again) if i get any decent offer. (not necessarily about the money...just about what i'll be doing)</p>

<p>please please please do things for what is right and not for the money involved.</p>

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<p>tourguide, i am a little unsure as to what you EXACTLY mean, but i think i get the drift. yeah, i agree. plus, this is military-backed sri.</p>

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<p>What is JPL?
And um is the internship you were getting from Harvey Mudd for military equipment stuff?</p>

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<p>JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Caltech/NASA run it)</p>

<p>nah, the SRI (Stanford Research Institute) offered me an internship that deals with training troops and technology and it is many miles away. That's all I can say.</p>

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<p>Washington and Lee University. Everybody here is just chill, but it seems all the 06ers are going to Ivies for Grad school.</p>

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<p>Hampden-Sydney College. All male. the best school.</p>

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<p>Just contradicted yourself.. </p>

<p>All male and the best school? Not a chance</p>

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<p>Hey, what about Northwestern? I heard that people there were very down-to-earth...</p>

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<p>I agree with SBmom, Colby is a very, very, very relaxed school with top-notch academics and very motivated students</p>

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<p>now, i thought the same thing BEFORE i visited. it's really a quite an experiance, if you give HSC a chance. Besides, you wouldn't know it was all male thurs-sun.</p>

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<p>You won't find a more relaxed, friendly atmosphere than Washington and Lee - it's like one huge family. It is actually taboo to talk about grades here.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley is a total pressure cooker. Everyone there thinks that they have to prove that they are smarter than the next guy. Some weeks you can't even leave the library to go to the bathroom without losing your spot. It's nuts.</p>

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<p>Okay, maybe UC Berkeley is a pressure cooker.</p>

<p>If that is so, the tech schools are a nucliothermal antiprotium weapon detonated at a singularity of space as the mass energy approaches the zero point energy yet KE approaches infinite. Cal can be the pressure cooker...</p>

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<p>Yeah.. dont mind if i stay in denial for the rest of my life..</p>

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<p>I can't believe my eyes when I see so many people writing that a good friendly, relaxing college is. . .MIT, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Carlelton, etc. These are all very tough schools, with loads of work. While the schools and their students can be fun, don't forget all those students had to compete fiercely to get in and they expect to continue competing to continue their success.</p>

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<p>"Just thought that entire conversation really says a lot about Duke’s atmosphere and the Duke student body. And in my experience, it’s totally true. The OP asked for “challenging” schools that still managed to be relaxed, laid-back, and friendly, and I’m totally standing by my claim that this is Duke – the school that has stellar academics, but still doesn’t always feel the need to take itself so seriously."</p>

<p>Along with Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, Penn (except Wharton, sorry d00ds), etc...</p>

<p>"I can't believe my eyes when I see people writing that a good friendly, relaxing college is. . .MIT, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Brown, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Carlelton, etc. These are all very tough schools, with loads of work. While the schools and their students can be fun, don't forget all those students had to compete fiercely to get in and they expect to continue competing to continue their success."</p>

<p>Difficulty of work, unless it's incredibly hard (*techs), doesn't really have THAT much of an impact on social life at a school. I'm pretty sure my local CC is reasonably dead.</p>