<p>"I ultimately find Cornell to be a paradox. It is public, yet private. Intensely large, it feels unexpectedly intimate at times. It has the attitude of a city in the middle of a countryside. And it is able tosimultaneously embody the nature of many different institutions:the technocracy of a cutting-edge research university, the pastoral tranquility of a liberal arts college, the unchannelled energy of alarge state school. Cornell does not make you. Just as the first students at Ezras university helped construct the buildings they studied in, you must make Cornell for yourself."</p>
<p>An excerpt from the Cornell Muse:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cornell-muse.com/themuse2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.cornell-muse.com/themuse2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>I thought the author's description was pretty cool, just in case someone's interested.</p>