<p>dining, housing, atmosphere, nearby malls/arcades/movies, natural scenery, academics (AEM or Hotel school), etc.</p>
<p>any comments are welcome, thanks!</p>
<p>Lol, they told me to post here, but I'm getting more responses from the College Search section.
I've tried google; I can't get the inside scoop. For example I know about the "inside stuff" at UCLA/USC. Since I don't live anywhere near Cornell, I need to ask friends I have there. I only have two friends that go there, so that's why I'd like more opinions on the school..</p>
<p>dining is top of the class, but like all cafeteria food, it gets old fast.</p>
<p>housing is fine, unless you're a party-girl and you get put into balch or something. i'm in donlon right now and i feel so lucky to have been placed there for the atmosphere even though mews/court/kay trumps it dorm-wise.</p>
<p>arcades.... are you joking........... no i don't think so</p>
<p>natural scenery is amazing. you can go on long walks with your date and whatnot.</p>
<p>nearby malls - pyramid malls - are pretty far away. you have to take a bus there (walmart, target, bestbuy i think, etc)</p>
<p>movie theaters i haven't been to yet. </p>
<p>academics is not as rigorous as it's hailed out to be. i'll have to get back to you on that after i get my pre-lim results :)</p>
<p>Haha, thank you CynicalBliss. This is very helpful.</p>
<p>Although Balch is reputed to be the nicest dorm...</p>
<p>There is the Triphammer Mall and the Pyramid Mall. The Pyramid Mall is nicer, although it's kind of far... but you can take a bus.</p>
<p>The campus itself is really nice. It's quite convenient to walk everywhere.</p>
<p>I don't think I can judge academics yet, but it often depends on the major.</p>
<p>the scenery is nice but im not so sure that its so convenient to walk around campus- again that depends on your schedule. i live on north campus so i wanted to 'block together' my classes so i wouldnt have a dead hour in between - its about 25-30 minute walk to get to central campus for me- by the north frats. by doing this- i have 10 minutes to get from baker laboratory to morrison hall then 10 minutes to get back to mallott (this one is pretty doable) but lemme tell ya, i havn't gotten to morrison from baker in less than 12 minutes yet- and i hustle. </p>
<p>i guess this deviates from your original post so ill get back to that. dinings great- im a transfer so i can compare- it's a lot better here. dont know much about housing- live off campus apartment, but the dorms look a lot nicer than ones ive seen in the past, pyramid mall is a bus journey. net distance its not that far by automobile, but buses are buses and they dont take everyone exactly where they need to go- you might have to switch buses a couple times. academics- not as bad as they are cut out to be- and im a science major, donno about aem or hotel. i came from a trimester school and that was much more fast paced.</p>
<p>how is pyramid mall far?! the bus (plenty of buses this year) get you there in like 10 minutes and run every half hour...</p>
<p>dining is good...but not totally consistent...</p>
<p>dorms are all over the place...just make the best of it</p>
<p>scenery is nice but november-april...scenery is white and slippery :o</p>