<p>Hi. I'm from New York City and I haven't visited Cornell Univsersity or Ithaca itself, but I hear it is... gorges. Can you all share your opinions on the school campus? What is there to do?</p>
<p>Also, what do you LOVE/really like about Cornell University and what do you HATE/dislike about it?</p>
<p>im also from nyc, and a freshmen at cornell:
so far, the only thing i hate is the red tape involved with scholarships and how cornell sucks ur scholarship money to reduce their grants..little sobs....
other than that....im loving it here....
where in nyc r u from? what hs?</p>
<p>I'm from Flushing, which is in Queens. I go to Francis Lewis High School.</p>
<p>I go to Bayside! You guys suck!! lol j/k but we still rule</p>
<p>I don't disagree; Francis Lewis sucks. However, I do not. :D
I just read 95% of the threads you have ever posted. Maybe it was a bit creepy to do so, but I learned a lot from them. bahahah, thanks.</p>
<p>By the way, I've been racking my brains to find a term for the type of school I'm looking for. "Hogwarts-esque" is genius.</p>
<p>Risley Dining=Great Hall (in the Harry Potter movies).</p>
<p>Only thing I hate so far: rude people.
I have literally had people shout out their car windows at me when they feel I take too long crossing the street.
And today I was mentioning to my friends how I've never been drunk and some guy passing me said, "Laaaame."
With this many people, you're bound to get some rude ones.
Okenshields. Is. The. ****. And the guy that does the card swiping is always really nice and cheery.</p>
<p>im from bayside hs too!!!!! who r u shhbananas????</p>
<p>i just graduated last year....</p>
<p>OMG happy Dave at Oakenshields is AWESOME...like he's really worth the price of the meal plan all on his own, forget the food.</p>
<p>The campus is indescribably amazing and beautiful...rainy days are gorgeous here...like, yeah...and the sunny days are just, impossibly wonderful.</p>
<p>The following is another of my posts but you will find it very pertinent:
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the absolute worst case scenario as a freshman would be living in a townhouse at the back of the complex and being an engineer with a class at the back of the engine quad...it would be like a 20 minute walk to class. on a bike it would be 5-10. then there's the bus...that would make it a 1 minute walk to the bus and a 1 minute walk to class.</p>
<p>Despite the spreadoutness of the campus, all the freshmen live really close together, with all buildings grouped next to each other in what's probably less than 1/4 of a mile at the longest chord. Despite the vastness of the whole campus (which includes farmland, plantations, equestrian facilities, the lab of ornothology with sapsucker woods, etc., things aren't actually that far away. you live on North Campus as a frosh, which is a 5 minute walk from central campus, where classes are. in central all the buildings are pretty much right next to each other with the exception of the grassy area in the arts quad. there are just a lot of buildings; the campus may look big but it's actually fairly condensed and nothing is that far away. there are just multiple areas (west- the bottom of the hill with upperclassmen dorms, north- across the gorge with frosh dorms, central- the middle of campus at the top of the hill with all the academic buildings, and, unofficially, east central- which has athletic facilities and kind of fades into the plantations and stuff.</p>
<p>There is so much to do on campus and you will be so busy (not just with classes--just with everything in life) that going down the road to ithaca's downtown would not be something you'd do too much even if it were right at the edge of campus. there is a shuttle bus between campus and the pedestrian mall in the middle of town though. but yeah, it wouldn't make a difference if it were surrounding the campus or 20 miles away, cornell has so much to do that theres very little reason to leave campus except for like a haircut or a restaurant (both of which you can get right at the edge of campus in "collegetown" which could be described as apartments restaurants hotels bars and clubs on what you could call "south campus"--south campus isn't a real name) On campus you can go swimming, biking on trails, bowling, see a movie in a legit theater, go to a third eye blind concert, eat chinese food, go to the bank, go to the post office or UPS, go shopping for school and some dorm supplies, and jump off a cliff or bridge into a river--for serious about that last one, much fun, you kind of get an idea of all the things you can do. also with the internet, I have purchased a sweet electric razor, lamp, refrigerator, chair, PDA, backpack and a few other things since i've gotten here. Still saving for the 7 speaker stereo system w/ reciever and oriental rug... but the point is the internet makes shopping for things you need alot easier...all the things showed up at the post office about 200 yards from my residence hall.
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<p>I don't know if i mentioned it in there, but theres a third eye blind concert next weekend! and branford marsalis played this weekend and we got to meet and chat with him, and arlo guthrie is performing "alices restaurant" in a couple, and snoop dogg and the game came last spring...rock on...</p>
<p>What I don't like: laundry is expensive, and some of the intro classes are big. it's a trade off that seems worth it, because it's just lecture material that wouldn't be any different if there were 15 kids instead of 150 or 500. the benefit is that once you get out of intro classes, classes are supposed to get incredibly small, and you'll likely know your professors very well.</p>
<p>Yeah, basically agree with what everyone has said - can't say I'm so much a fan of the rainy days though.</p>
<p>Also, I hate the fact that Ithaca is really isolated. I want to visit friends in Boston but can't find an easy way of getting there. I'd love to do some shopping but the closest is all the way in Syracuse. But I guess some people like the fact that the school is isolated! (and I have done a LOT of online shopping)</p>
<p>Ok, I just realized that my post sounds a little negative, so I have to say that I freakin LOVE IT HERE. There. I said it. Cornell is the best!</p>
<p>What do you mean by the closest is all the way in Syracuse? I know pyramid mall isn't exactly huge, but it has pretty much everything you could want. And that is just one of the places to shop.</p>
<p>look at the pro/con thread one or two pages back</p>
<p>trying to think of things I don't like...cost of laundry's a good one</p>
<p>the fact that bear nasties is at least double the price of normal places and Cornell therefore only gave me 250 BRBs in real money</p>
<p>obnoxious people who can't handle their alcohol and find the need to shout annoying things</p>
<p>Uggs and shorts...Uggs and miniskirts are tolerable, but shorts I'd never seen before Cornell</p>
<p>and that's all :), I love Cornell</p>
<p>take a visit to the carousel mall in syracuse and pyramid looks like a tiny spec on the map.</p>
<p>i wouldn't argue that gomestar, it's just that people shouldn't be thinking that there's nowhere to buy stuff at a "real mall" in ithaca, because that's just not true. You don't have everything like you'd have in a major city, but you do have alot here. Given the location, a low-income rural area in upstate NY the availability of stores like Best Buy, Abercrombie, Victoria's Secret, Target, Wegmans, etc. is sort of incredible. It's because of Cornell and IC that they exist here.</p>
<p>With regrad to pedestrians being yelled at--I sort of understand...we students have a 95% disregard for motorized vehicles, and assume we have the right of way. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I have come 18" from being hit by a huge garbage truck. :)</p>
<p>how much is laundry?
uggs with miniskirts is a disgusting sight. i might gouge my eyes out if i make it to cornell and see girls wearing uggs with miniskirts, or maybe even just uggs.</p>
<p>I'm not saying I can't buy what I need in Ithaca, but I do miss the shopping in NJ and NYC.</p>
<p>Laundry is $1.50 per load for each washer and dryer (or $1.25, I'm not sure). I went through $25 in the first month.</p>
<p>Uggs are stupid.</p>