<p>Alas, Cornell is losing and we must further rally the troops.</p>
<p>Doonesbury, which we have seen over the past few weeks, has featured
one of its main characters, Alex Doonesbury, picking her college.
It seems that the strip's author Gary Trudeau is allowing the public
to pick her college for her via an online poll. If she picks
Cornell, then Cornell's name will feature regularly in one of the
most read and most respected comics in the United States. If anyone
else thinks this would be cool, try voting yourself and sending the
link off
to your buddies.</p>
<p>Cornell got shafted in their description. MIT got billed as intellectually elite, RPI got tagged with biomedical, chemical, informational, every kind of engineering and as the first engineering school, and Cornell gets "patents" "transnational."</p>
<p>I mean, what the heck is that!? There shouldn't be blurbs from the school, and truly, the forces of Cornell need to mobilize, and quickly.</p>
<p>//...they could've at least mentioned the nano facilities.</p>
<p>whatever, i bet u if cornell's entire alumni population cheated like the MIT students, then we would own everybody. Consider, several hundred thousand alumni managing to vote 3000 times each. (However, we have honor, and we do not stoop to MIT's level of "hacks", or instances of cheating). P.S. maybe Doonesbury should remember the honor code (i.e. no cheating).</p>
<p>personally, i think she should decide for herself. its kinda odd having other people determine where your next 4+ years are going to be... and then having the sentence "Don't let others define you." in the first paragraph?</p>
<p>unless, of course, she just wants to see where we think she should go without basing her decision on the results of the poll. in this case, ignore everything i said before this :P</p>
<p>btw, why is she deciding so late? weren't we all supposed to notify our respective colleges by may 1st? or did she get off the waitlist for these colleges?</p>
<p>whatever, I bet if cornell's entire population loosened up like the MIT students, they'd alight upon the fact that cartoons like Doonesbury are for the amusement of the general public and not publicity stunts for a particular university. Consider, several tens of thousands of students with a sense of humor! (However, you have my pity, as you did not come up with the idea first). P.S. maybe Doonesbury should remember the butts-are-not-a-good-place-to-store-sticks code (i.e. no fun).</p>
<p>I'm not exactly jumping at you, but why not RPI?</p>
<p>It's a great school and getting their name out there would do them some good.</p>
<p>Obviously I would be most excited to see Cornell in the strip, but I think it would also be cool if RPI got some much needed exposure....I think their biggest problem is there aren't many people who really look into the school.</p>
<p>I would be disappointed to see MIT in the strip, they already get enough press....plus RPI and Cornell are much more student friendly, in my opinion.</p>
<p>To tell you the truth I had never even hear of RPI prior to this strip. I don't think it's even in the league of Cornell or MIT. For the sake of stats, I don't think its $600 million endowment is comparable to Cornell or MIT's, which are in the billions. </p>
<p>However, I could be wrong on my perspective, as I have never before heard of RPI.</p>
<p>its a pretty good school. truthfully, i haven't heard of it before this past year, but then again i haven't heard of a lot of good colleges before this past year.</p>
<p>I almost went to RPI, they offered an awesome merit based package and a free laptop.</p>
<p>Cornell had already won me over though....</p>
<p>I'm kind of glad I didn't go to RPI. It has a great reputation here, but I had no idea that it's name isn't known outside of upstate New York.</p>
<p>Although I'm in awe....RPI is beating cornell in the poll and they are so much smaller! Maybe they have more comic strip readers there? Who knows? </p>
<p>I guess we're starting to gain strength....kinda</p>