<p>Heard/read many times that cornell students are cut-throat. Too many pre-professional students. Seen many variations of such a quote: "ways pre-med kids go to get good grades (i.e tear out pages out the college library books and leave the next borrower hopeless)". </p>
<p>What is the truth about Cornell students (IYHO)?</p>
<p>not at all</p>
<p>Cornell premeds are very resourceful. We not only tear out critical pages but we paste fake pages (w/ wrong answers) back in so you don't even know the page has been torn out! That, my friend, is ingenuity.</p>
<p>haha...yeah...some kids can be jerks. for instance, when someone returns the reserve gen chem lecture notes, we have to check the notebook to make sure they're all there because kids are stealing them.</p>
<p>Today I had problems with kids hogging the reserve orgo study guides...</p>
<p>Oh well...not every pre-med student is this way. just a select group.</p>
<p>Sucks to your premed Ass-Mar!</p>
<p>What are these study guides you are talking about? There are no study guides on reserve. Go back to your dorm. .....;)</p>
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<p>lol Haven't heard this since high school.</p>
<p>wait is this a joke??
i thought cornell was the opposite of cut throat!!</p>
<p>or do these comments only apply to pre med students?</p>
<p>I think the op of that quote meant all cornell students but used premed students as an example.</p>
<p>The worst is when some of the students in your class give the professor's car a flat tire or some other mechanical problem right before an exam. </p>
<p>The professor ends up missing office hours and you sit around twiddling your thumbs for an hour before you realize that she's not going to make it and answer all of your questions. This happened all the time to me in the most difficult course I ever took: ILRHR266. I had to withdraw from the course twice!</p>
<p>one of my classmates even posted my professor's house for sale in the local newspaper - he totally missed office hours trying to fix the problem and half the class bombed the test. </p>
<p>Still, that's nothing compared to the time a student put a small explosive device on the fuse box to one of the dorms one night so everybody missed their alarms their next morning due to the power outage.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. And then there was this one time a kid in my class stole all of my notes and threw them into the gorges. I had to spend two hours on a beautiful afternoon in September swimming and frolicking around Fall Creek trying to gather up all of my papers when I could have been studying and snorting Ritalin.</p>
<p>This is so funny! You guys/gals are not for real (I hope)?!</p>
<p>hey it's better than the time that kid took those notes and sent them to Ithaca Recycling facility where they were then processed into the very same toilet paper that is supplied to CU Housing ... we were wiping ourselves with the precious notes we needed to pass a course!!!</p>
<p>We're dead serious. Why do you think the Cornell lax team shamefully lost to Syracuse tonight? I wouldn't be surprised if they had to skip practice over the least couple of days because their classmates were literally trying to cut their throats. Max Seibald had a horrific looking gash under his helmet.</p>
<p>Hmm... I find all this hard to believe, but it still makes me nervous. I suppose that this was the purpose?</p>
<p>I was able to obtain the very last copy of a very important set of notes that was needed for a final exam, everybody else destroyed the other copies. I made 25 copies to help out my classmates, but then I proceeded to burn 23 of those copies just to prove that whatever gomestar giveth, gomestar doth taketh away.</p>
<p>Nah. We're telling it like it is. I would only get nervous once people start posting on here how much of a cakewalk Cornell is. They would obviously be just trying to give you a false sense of security just so that they can rape you on the D+ curve next year.</p>
<p>theatricals aside (loved the one about the toilet paper), I've heard similar stories about the sense of competitiveness at Cornell-- primarily within the hard science courses filled with premeds. You'll find that at many schools though and from what I gather, it's a minority.</p>
<p>At least those two-biting premeds can't kerfluffle with your MCAT scores. Oh, wait...</p>
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<p>What I find hard to believe is that people still use the stock HCl in orgo lab. Don't they know I've already replaced them all with NaOH by now?</p>
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<p>LMAO!!!!</p>
<p>lord of the flies...good stuff...:P
(pretty sure piggy would've been a crap doctor)</p>