<p>Hey all, I posted a few weeks ago about transferring, and I found out on Saturday that I got in! Do you think I should go? I'd be giving up a small liberal arts school with a great reputation (top 10 in the country, if you care about rankings). I'm most apprehensive about the transition from a school of 1600 to CALS. Any advice? I realize the choice is completely personal and that there is no right or wrong answer, but some feedback would be interesting. Thanks!</p>
<p>Key questions to consider:</p>
<p>1) Are you currently happy at Kenyon?
2) If you come to Cornell, do you think you will work hard to take advantage of the additional resources at your disposal in terms of research opportunities, student activities, alumni connections, etc.?
3) What are your current career plans? If you want to become a secondary school educator, attending Cornell wouldn't matter that much. But for other paths Cornell is able to open more doors.</p>
<p>By Noah Hy Brozinsky
Youll see great things done, in the Ithaca sun, </p>
<p>if you sit on the Arts Quad, Im told.</p>
<p>Youll see Long Islanders in their polos and top-siders, </p>
<p>as long as the weathers not cold.</p>
<p>But if it is freezing, then chances are youll be seeing </p>
<p>hooded masses sulking to and fro.</p>
<p>Theyll ***** and theyll moan, theyll drink coffee while they groan:</p>
<p>Siberia, Im sure, gets less snow.</p>
<p>Observe, if you will, a pre-frosh named Bill, </p>
<p>whos preparing to move into Dickson.</p>
<p>Hell do course enroll, around the frats hell stroll, but </p>
<p>by September hell face a decision:</p>
<p>What will it be, Bill? his senior friends will shrill. </p>
<p>Will you do one major or two?</p>
<p>Maybe change schools altogether! You could take up architecture! </p>
<p>Heed our advice, Bill, or youll rue!</p>
<p>If you become a hotelie, peoplell think that youre lazy! </p>
<p>So leave table setting to the maid.</p>
<p>If you become an engineer, people forever will sneer, </p>
<p>that poor bastard will never get laid!</p>
<p>Maybe take a sabbatical with the major Mathematical </p>
<p>and do problem sets till you die.</p>
<p>Perhaps you might tarry with medicines veterinary,</p>
<p>And do cat dissections as you cry.</p>
<p>Have you thought about CALS? will ask Bills pals. </p>
<p>Its all funded by New York State!</p>
<p>Youll learn about the environment and bovine empowerment. </p>
<p>Its a cause we consider first-rate.</p>
<p>And were betting youll wager upon the English Major, </p>
<p>if teacups, Bill, are your cup of tea.</p>
<p>Through Foucault you will suffer, beware of Judith Butler!</p>
<p>Its I before E, cept after C.</p>
<p>The Harrys, Toms, and Dicks, who run campus politics: </p>
<p>They are the bunch youll want to know.</p>
<p>You can join a fraternity, find a secret society, </p>
<p>its only your own horn youll blow.</p>
<p>Face-time as an OL, or have dinner with Hillel, </p>
<p>and remember the Collegetown Creeper!</p>
<p>Join the E-Lynah forum, and there abandon all decorum!</p>
<p>Dave McKee: Convocation Speaker!</p>
<p>But what, may I ask, adds Bill as he basks </p>
<p>in the smell of some Keystone and Beast.</p>
<p>What do Cornellians do when their days are through? </p>
<p>You must have some fun at least!</p>
<p>Well, say his friends, When our works at an end </p>
<p>we retire to our quarters and study </p>
<p>Just kidding! We relax! And we schtup in the stacks!</p>
<p>And we drink beer and liquors sundry.</p>
<p>Cornell! Cornell! Cornell, the seniors yell </p>
<p>and hear their voices roll down slope</p>
<p>None admitted yet shall relate to 2008 </p>
<p>in terms of greatness scope.</p>
<p>Sure were graduating, but its time for elating! </p>
<p>We have no regrets at all.</p>
<p>Well miss life on the hill, but its all been a thrill</p>
<p>To live neath McGraw Towers call.</p>
<p>Ring a ding! Ring a ling! For oh-eight the bells sing! </p>
<p>Our final weeks on the hill are here.</p>
<p>Well dance and well play, well go nuts on Slope Day, </p>
<p>and harbor not one ounce of fear.</p>
<p>Were not scared at all about what happens next Fall, </p>
<p>or whatever we then will do.</p>
<p>Were proud to be done, its been a great run.</p>
<p>And so we say to our friends, thank you.</p>
<p>Cascadilla Falls
A.R. Ammons</p>
<p>I went down by Cascadilla
Falls this
evening, the
stream below the falls,
and picked up a
handsized stone
kidney-shaped, testicular, and</p>
<p>thought all its motions into it,
the 800 mph earth spin,
the 190-million-mile yearly
displacement around the sun,
the overriding
grand
haul</p>
<p>of the galaxy with the 30,000
mph of where
the sun's going:
thought all the interweaving
motions
into myself: dropped</p>
<p>the stone to dead rest:
the stream from other motions
broke
rushing over it:
shelterless,
I turned</p>
<p>to the sky and stood still:
oh
I do
not know where I am going
that I can live my life
by this single creek.</p>
<p>hey SWINGDOGS,</p>
<p>Congratz! I am currently a transfer applicant to CALS too (although I don't know if I got in or not). How did you find out? Do they post the decision on the CU application status site? </p>
<p>Congratz again!</p>