<li>are the dorms furnished? </li>
<li>if so, what do they include? specifically like TV, computer, modem and such?</li>
<li>are there good parking lots? are they free?</li>
<li>nearby airport?</li>
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<p>Dorms have a bed, desk, lamp, dresser, and closet. Parking is about 650/year on campus, but there are lots close to the freshman dorms. Closest airport is Ithaca/Tompkins (ITH); other airports are Syracuse (SYR, about an hour away), Elmira/Corning (45ish minutes away) and I think there might be another in the area. I know a lot of people (especially internationals) fly to NYC and take a bus over (5-6 hours) if you want to do that.</p>
<p>5-6 hours busing.. that's pretty far. hm so how big are the two beds dorm rooms? And how long on average do we stay in our dorms per day?</p>
<p>Good thing I live only an hour away : P</p>
<p>how long you stay in your dorm depends on how close your dorm is to class. I live kind of far away, so I leave in the morning, and come back after everything is done at night.</p>
<p>I was reading about the townhouse option for freshmen..anyone here do that/have opinions about it?</p>
<p>does anyone know where they sell cornell sweatshirts?
and my previous question of the internet/computer thing, do they provide internet? do i have to bring my own desktop/laptop</p>
<p>where do you get the car decal???</p>
<p>I was randomly trying out flight tickets and found that pretty much no flights go from my airport, BWI, to Ithaca straight. WHat kind of transportation can I get from Syracuse to and from Cornell?</p>
<p>heh, lotsa questions....</p>
<p>add to the airports would be rochester, each airport has its shortcomings and it's all a matter of preference.</p>
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<li><p>Are you crazy?! a TV in the dorm rooms? ahahaha, you're lucky if you get some free food from cornell, let alon a tv. Ummm...internet is part of housing, but there is a 5 GB limit on outside uploading and downloading. Don't worry, unless you're torrenting constantly you most likely won't even go over 2 GB cuz you can get nearly everything off DC++, which is an intra-filesharing service that is supposedly illegal so just forget what I just said. You can go and buy a fridge for cheap, but it has to be mini. Microwaves are illegal, but you can still get one as long as housing ppl don't know about it. Modem?! ***...it's all at least 1Mbs high speed. Cable access through cornell is $40/month.</p></li>
<li><p>parking I think is $600/year and there are 2 huge lots on north. You will not be driving to class, so forget it. The only ppl that I know that have cars are ones that live close and might go home ever other weekend or so.</p></li>
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<p>townhouses- there are a lot of townhouses, there are I think the farthest living quarters from campus besides the eco house. Most ppl don't like them mostly because it's damn far from anything, especially food.</p>
<p>cornell sweatshirts-everywhere in ithaca, you could go to mall in ithaca and get one. </p>
<p>computer-they say you don't have to bring a computer with you, but you really should, there's no way one is going to a coputer lab in subzero weather to finish a paper, it's just impractical.</p>
<p>transportation- mostly by buses if you want to get out of cornell. I think Cornell has some deal with shortline or greyhound for busing to syracuse. You could also try rochester or cortland/elmira or even binghampton.</p>
<p>car decal-when you get your orientation packet you'll have the option on one of the forms to get a car decal. Man, that's like half a year away, just calm down man.</p>
<p>What? I never saw the option for the car decal, then again I never really read the packet.</p>
<p>Do we share bathrooms with the people on the same floor? or is there one in the apartment? Thx</p>
<p>Oh and what's the best dorm for freshmen? so excited to come to Cornell next year</p>
<p>so they have internet but its not cable?
does that mean its dial up?
and we have to pay to get our own cable internet installed?
that sucks!</p>
<p>It does suck.. $40/month? I thought room/board includes all these fees!</p>
<p>can someone post a pic of a typical dorm?</p>
<p>the $40/month is for cable tv not cable internet</p>
<p>yea Bump for dorm pic!</p>
<p>what? they have cable, it's high speed...100 Mbps. I was talking about cable television, it's $40/month. Ummm... I think you'll get another packege for housing and stuff in april or sometime. And there's wireless in nearly every place on campus as well. It's all free, there's just a limit of 5 Gb on uploading and downloading every month.</p>
<p>random dorm room? They're all so different, it really depends on where you're living. got to
<a href="http://www.housing.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">www.housing.cornell.edu/</a> if you want to check out dorms and stuff. I dunno about pics, just friend a random freshman on facebook and check out the photo albums. I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of pics of the dorm rooms.</p>
<p>internet is 10mbps. They dont have gigabit :(</p>
<p>the 5gig limit is only for external internet use- such as websites and such.however, use dc++ for all downloads; it has not limit up or down because it uses the cornell's local network. </p>
<p>download a free bandwidth tracker to see if on average you exceed the 5gig limit.(very unlikely, unless you watch and download porn continuously in which case, you can use dc++ to get your PRON on.</p>