<p>I have heard the extremes from people but I still am curious. Is the worklod THAT HEAVY. I understand that it is not easy, its an ivy league school and is generally difficult. However, is the workload so hard that you have no spare time and spend all your time in the library?</p>
<p>Also how hard is the workload in the ILR program?</p>
<p>The truth is that Cornell's workload is greatly exagerrated.</p>
<p>well, i can tell you this:</p>
<p>ILR stands for "I Love Reading"</p>
<p>it's generally exadurated, though it still isn't easy. Grades are generally earned, not given. There'll be your fluff classes here and there. </p>
<p>For ilr, yes you will have alot of reading. My first semester was around 300-500 pages a week. Reading isn't very hard, but finding the time to stay away and process all of that stuff is. The only real class in ILR where you'll spend at least an hour or two every night doing work is CB201. Tough tough class, but very rewarding. I'd do it over again.</p>
<p>"exadurated" creative spelling :) </p>
<p>I'm in AS, taking multivariable calculus, intro to psych, a FWS for Pre-English Majors, and Intermediate French, and PE, which doesn't matter... at least from my high school, right now the workload is about equal to it, if not less. Maybe it will get harder later? Who knows.</p>
<p>please! i'm at the library and only walk to a computer to browse the internet just to keep my eyes open ... heavy risk of just passing out in my textbook, lack of sleep or something. The fact that I can even read properly right now is a blessing. </p>
<p>Bed early tonight...</p>
<p>Taking orgo, physics and three other classes that don't seem to matter much at the moment. Enough said.</p>
<p>bed right now..but engineering stuff</p>
<p>phys 207 = the devil reincarnated.</p>
<p>sleep is a commodity.</p>
<p>i work usually work from morning to about 3-4 AM...but I am an architecture major and there are only 60 of us per year. but if I count, yes the workload can get pretty crazy esp when the prelims come but the stuff you learn here is awesome so i don't really consider it as "work".</p>
<p>Dont worry all colleges have lots of work. I'm a GT and the past three days I've had sooo much work. I've been working ever since 6:30 and I still have a good hour or more to go (5 min comp break!)...and it's been like this the past couple days. But hey I still go out every night and make sure I stay sane...and my school is nothing compared to Cornell. But hey a workload is a workload lol</p>
<p>sashimi - how long does it take to draw a damn shoe?? You spend way too much time in that studio regardless!!</p>
<p>engineering is pretty damn tough with the lectures being absolutely useless</p>
<p>hey gomestar i heard that labor law was the hardest class</p>
<p>labor law is incredibly hard. </p>
<p>it's one of those classes where you'll write a paper and you think you did everything perfectly, but then you'll get the class average (of a D-). Some of the material isn't so hard, there's just a ton of it (nightly homework assignments that you submit online for a grade ... sometimes they take hours and hours to do). Though, the good news is there's no prelims. </p>
<p>Despite all of this, it's still the best class I've taken yet.</p>
<p>is that just Gold or is Leiberwitz hard, too? We don't have nightly assignements; we have optional briefs.</p>
<p>just Gold. I hear leiberwitz is easy, but the class is a bore. Gold is hard but the class is awesome. A tradeoff.</p>
<p>Yea, I struggle not to pass out in her lectures.</p>
<p>there needs to be a coffee distribution place right in Ives for the boring professors.</p>
<p>gomestar-drawing a shoe is easy but it's not easy expresssing the analysis of the performance of the shoe into the drawing in a clear way. we're actually building paper "field" models reflecting the various intensities the shoe undergoes during....now that takes a looong time</p>