Southern California Cornellians

<p>Hey guys. I got accepted ED to Cornell and I live in Manhattan Beach, California (Los Angeles area). Just wondering if there were any other Californians out there who are going to Cornell too. Put your name and screen name and where you live. Maybe we can sympathize together about the long plane rides! Or something like that. Let's be cool like the NJ/NY kids and have our own thread! heehee. love to hear from you all. </p>

<p>-Meg, Megara41</p>

<p>I'm from Seattle so we at least share the same coast!! I am starting to feel like an outsider here with all these NY/NJ kids overpowering us.. we need to represent the west side!</p>

<p>I'm not from Seattle or California so I probably shouldn't be creeping on this thread, but I just want to say that I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU. Seattle is like my favorite city EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>Meg, I'm from socal too (and I live near where you live actually)...what motivated you to apply to Cornell ED??? (3,000 miles away!!!). I mean, I applied RD to Cornell, but it will be a tough sell to actually convince me to go...what were some of the factors that made you fall in love with the school as much as you did? It's gonna be awful hard to leave the beautiful weather and GORGEOUS campus of UCLA- for ANY school...</p>

<p>yeah i know people think i'm crazy for going so far away. but i need a change. LA is too crazy. yeah, the weather's nice right now and i'm wearing sandals, but there is so much traffic here and it's just nuts. i need to live somewhere else for four years and then i'll come back for grad school maybe at berkeley or ucla or uc santa barbara or something like that. i just got such a good feeling when i got to cornell. people were so nice and they knew all about my high school (harvard-westlake). cornell just has a really good rep at my school. i was originally attracted to the school of art and architecture, but i didn't even end up applying there! i'm going to a&s. oh well. at least that art scene will be present on campus. i am gonna sign up for local art classes in ithaca. oh yeah - ithaca. so cute. it's the perfect college town and it has everything you need. cornell is so intense - intense studying, intense partying. i like that. the people from my school who go there now say that they love it. i don't know i just liked it! you know? i applied there ED really last minute. like the week before it was due last minute. dartmouth was originally my first choice but they were mean to me and they didn't want me so i screwed them and went for my next choice. and now i am SO happy! so yeah. i'm boring you now. but yeah you should go to cornell. it rocks. :)</p>

<p>-Meg</p>

<p>See, there's at least a few other people who are from So Cal. i just need to get out of LA, it's not so fun. I'm tired of running into people at the grocery store and playing the "well, what have you been doing with your life since the last time I saw you... five years ago" game. Anyway, that's my two cents.</p>

<p>Meg I'm just like you, with the Art/Archi idea but then deciding on CAS. Of course I would have been there for architecture, not art.</p>

<p>nah i prob would've gone there for architecture too. i couldn't decide though. but i heard the arch students were like masochistic. so i was like no thank you. haha.</p>

<p>so cal represent.</p>

<p>Moahaha, I'm not from California, or the US for that matter, but I decided to crash this party.</p>