<p>bumppppppp</p>
<p>Everything but the admissions rate.</p>
<p>Wordup: I like your post!</p>
<p>RPU
Awesome concerts with famous ppl
Never a boring moment here
Belgian Waffles lol</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Snow Day](<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=sE-Gu3-DjT0]YouTube”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=sE-Gu3-DjT0)</p>
<p>Just showed it to daughter. Not sure if she is going back to Cornell after this video.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Cornell didn’t have the good sense to cancel classes on that day until the afternoon. It took me around 50 minutes to walk from West Campus to the Vet School for my morning class and, yes, I did pass a couple of skiers along the way.</p>
<p>pumpkin ice cream!</p>
<p>A few of my favorite things from the early 80’s:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dogs roaming campus with red kerchiefs around the neck</li>
<li>The bohemian coffee house in the basement of the Architecture school</li>
<li>Listening to Jazz Masters on vinyl in the music school</li>
<li>Wall climbing near Olin</li>
<li>Special events nights by dinning services</li>
<li>First warm day of Spring and a walk around Bebe Lake</li>
<li>Parking for free at the Wilson Synchrotron (nobody checked then) and taking the elevator up through the building to access the campus…</li>
<li>PMPs (Poor Man Pizzas) at 1 am on West Campus</li>
<li>The quiet beauty of the Ornithology Labs</li>
<li>The museum </li>
<li>Watching the sun-dial being installed in the Engineering Quad</li>
<li>The woodwork in the Law library</li>
<li>Watching grad students tinkering with their laser experiments late at night</li>
<li>Seeing how ice cream was made (and the free samples) at the Ag School</li>
<li>Live Shakespeare and the Cornell Glee Club</li>
<li>Answering trivia questions on the radio and winning free tickets to the B-52 concert </li>
<li>The telescope near North Campus…first time I saw the rings of Saturn.</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks for the thread and the opportunity to walk down memory lane…Cornell will always hold a special place in my heart…and mind.</p>
<p>-The west campus gorges in the summer. Or even just Ithaca in general in the summer. Wake up, go to class, come home, do HW, chill at the gorges all day, come home, get drunk, persuade as many girls as you can to go skinny dipping in the gorges. Repeat for 6 weeks
-Thursday - Sunday nights
-You really don’t have to be 21 to go sake bombing
-North campus gorge jumping
-There are intramurals for everything
-Taking the dogs to the slope and letting them poop all over
-Annoying everyone in Olin
-There’s always tons of things to steal from Cornell, but they are getting much more lame by using cardboard construction signs instead of metal.</p>
<p>Yeah I didn’t really mention anything to do with classes in general, but whatever. Cornell’s a really beautiful place with lots of debauchary to engage in. The rest is just hogwash</p>
<p>StitchInTime, what was Wilson Synchrotron?</p>
<p>[Wilson</a> Synchrotron Laboratory](<a href=“http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/public/lab-info/wilson.html]Wilson”>Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory) is the particle accelerator located underneath Alumni Field. It’s where elementary particle physics experiments are conducted. It just [celebrated</a> its 40th year anniversary](<a href=“http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec07/synchrotron.40th.html]celebrated”>Wilson Synchrotron looks ahead to 'big science' and looks back on 40 years of leading accelerator research | Cornell Chronicle).</p>
<p>Every so often, as I was making my way through the building, I would take a few moments to just look over the researchers’ shoulders as they were analyzing the [cool</a> images](<a href=“http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/Research/WebHome.html]cool”>CLASSE: Research) on their computer screens.</p>
<p>What I liked about Cornell was the campus. Omg…i was in awe and took so many pictures during the campus tour. Hmm what else…I liked the tight knit community feeling.Last but not least, the FOOD lol. There’s a lot more, but I’m too drowsy to think of them at the moment.</p>
<p>Wilson Synchrotron…my first visit to Cornell was years ago when my husband took me to one of his conferences on particle physics. It is a very beautiful place. I later learned that Cornell was founded on the principle that “any person can find instruction in any study”. This is so far ahead of its time/peers & so liberating at a time when few, if any, women/blacks went to college.</p>
<p>Old geezer here (class of '81)</p>
<p>This is what I liked about Cornell when I accepted
- The campus (I LOVED the campus)
- Ithaca and collegetown
- The physical beauty of the surrounding area
- The wide range of academic options
- An academic peer group … it was time to be thrown into the deep end
- The students … I felt very comfortable among them … they seemed like low-key stealth intellectuals … very smart and motivated but like to play in very typical ways
- feeling at home on the campus and easily imagining spending 4 years there</p>
<p>After I was a student I realized how correct but drastically short my orginal list was … other things to include are …
- midnight runs to the truck (food)
- how amazing beautiful everything is after a snow storm
- sleding on lib slope
- midnight touch football / ultimate frisbee
- Cornell hockey
- how my academic options were so much broader and better than I had imagined
- 4 years of meeting terrific friends … many of whom are among my life-long best friends
- 4 years of meeting terrific women … assuming you find brians and drive sexy
- finding a major I had never even heard of in high school
- countless adventures … many of which would prevent me from ever becoming president
- being a great place for me to evolve over four years from a kid to an adult</p>
<p>BTW…can any current Cornellian confirm if North Campus still takes part in the [Primal</a> Scream](<a href=“http://www.cuwiki.org/Primal_Scream]Primal”>http://www.cuwiki.org/Primal_Scream) ritual?</p>
<p>Are there places around Cornell where you can volunteer/work/research? Since I am from California, I am very concerned about going to a new environment where I will have to find new volunteer and work opportunities.</p>
<p>they did it when I was a freshman 2 years ago, stitchintime</p>
<p>Stitchintime, my freshman floor did the primal scream this year. So awesome.</p>
<p>Cornell2012:</p>
<p>Your starting off with a great attitude. I would go directly to the department heads of the reseach area you’re interested in and tell him/her what you’re interested in. Ask them what they’re looking for. Send them an email and share your interests. Don’t give-up if they don’t have anything open right away. Ask them to keep you in mind. They may even recommend you to a colleague in another area…Cornell’s a big place with a lot always going on.</p>
<p>Pay close attention to the research grants that professors are getting…sometimes they have a budget for research assistants.</p>
<p>Reflecting back on my personal experience back in the '80s, I was offered a freshman position via an USDA funded grant in the Ag School. I had an opportunity to work with research in pollution run-off from farms into reservoirs. The grant allowed me to be on campus a few weeks before my first semester. I spent a good part of the summer on campus in a dorm.</p>
<p>By the time classes started, I was already in the ‘college-grove’ and hit the ground running. </p>
<p>Good luck to you. Just be passionate and professional with your research professors…you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>And if you are interested in volunteering in Ithaca, I’m sure there are opportunities to do that.</p>