<p>Well during the last couple of weeks i have been narrowing down my choices of colleges i would like to attend. It is now between Either Georgetown MSOB or Cornell AEM. I have heard a lot of positive feedback for both of these schools telling me why i should go there but i want to hear some of the negatives. For current students or students that visited these schools, i was just wondering What don't you like about Cornell or maybe even Georgetown?</p>
<p>Cornell: </p>
<p>I don't like how some of the students constantly complain about how they were rejected at other Ivies. I also don't like how some students complain about Ithaca or the weather. Ithaca's a fantastic Collegetown, a great place to spend four years, and you knew what you were getting into. Besides, its not like the weather at Cornell is any different than any other school in the Northeast.</p>
<p>Georgetown: I'm admittedly biased, but I spent a summer living on Georgetown's campus with Georgetown students, and I found the student body to be pretty one-dimensional and, for lack of better word, 'uppity'. The School of Foreign Service is really the best thing about Georgetown.</p>
<p>I would only attend Georgetown if you absolutely must live in D.C. when you are an undergraduate. But that's just me.</p>
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<p>i would go to cornell. AEM is now #4 in the country...you cant go wrong with that! plus, if you feel like you absolutely must be in DC, do cornell's abroad program in dc. if you are from a city, i would suggest that you change your environment just to have a broader perspective. being from dc, i wanted to get out of the area for college...makes me appreciate it more when i go home</p>
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After thinking long and hard, here are my top 3 (in no particular order):</p>
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<li><p>The fact we get charged $5 each time we get locked out. Freshman year, I had 3 roommates and we were always locking each other out.</p></li>
<li><p>The suckiness of the hockey team the past two years and the heartbreaking manner in which the team lost in the tourney the two years before that. I spent 5 hours at Benchwarmers (getting drunker and drunker) watching the Cornell-Wisconsin triple overtime game three years ago. Saw David McKee make 59 straight saves to preserve a shutout into the third overtime only to see Cornell lose 1-0. </p></li>
<li><p>The publication of the median grade reports. Terrible idea.</p></li>
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<p>Honorable mention: the weather. I sometimes wish it were warmer as a Californian but I sometimes like the fact there are actual seasons.
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<p>whoa, deja vu</p>
<p>Norcalguy --</p>
<p>Did you eat the fat chick when you were at Benchwarmers?</p>
<p>I have no idea what that is so I just googled it:</p>
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The "Fat Chick"
eat the whole thing in under 30 minutes & get a free t-shirt!The "Fat Chick"
20oz of breaded chicken breast, way too much grilled bacon, loads of melted monterey jack cheese and a mound of sauteed onions served on a toasted kaiser roll with what can only be described as an excessive amount of French-fries. Eat the whole thing in under 30-minutes & get a free t-shirt!
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<p>I think I would've liked a fat chick initially but with 20 ounces of chicken + bacon + oinions + mont. jack I think the Fat Chick would've fallen into the "What don't you like about Cornell" category later on in the day.</p>
<p>i visited this weekend and i thought everything was fantastic, beautiful beyond words, really friendly students and faculty, but the one troubling thing was a few kids complained that some of the intro classes had 700 students. they got through it but i had hoped that 200 would be the most to expect in one class.</p>
<p>what dont i like? cornells too big. the campus and the student body both.</p>
<p>yea, too big sometimes, but the worse is traveling convenience...I don't mind the isolation, its a beautiful campus...but usairways the airlines is so unreliable with delays and cancellations with such a small airport....more transportation for better prices need to be to syracuse which has a better airport and trains
so rather than making darastic changes, they need a cornell shuttle to syracuse</p>
<p>"some of the intro classes had 700 students.... but i had hoped that 200 would be the most to expect in one class."</p>
<p>There's really no difference between a lecture with 200 & one with 700, neither are intimate settings. Large is large.</p>
<p>^ very true. large intro classes would not be a reason not to go to cornell. you can find plenty of smaller classes where you'll be able to get to know your profs. so yeah that probably shouldnt be a big concern</p>
<p>and even if you are in a big lecture class, there is no reason why you still cant talk to the professor and ask for help. make yourself memorable (for good reasons) and they will remember your name</p>
<p>Psych 101 has 1400 in the class and people are still turned away.</p>
<p>ugh, the hills. I'm from the city and I'm not used to all that climbing but I'll probably get over it.</p>
<p>speaking of psych 101...despite all the psych 101 trash talkers out there (there are a lot of them), all of you incoming frosh should take it if you can. it's a cool class.</p>
<p>Psych 101 is a legendary class, and it has grown to such ridiculous proportions because it is so amazing and everyone wants to take it. Its not as if its a common occurrence for a class to be that huge, but that being said, its also not as if the 1400 people take away from the quality of the class. If anything, its just a testament to the skillfullness of a professor who can keep that many people engaged and still come out with such raving reviews.</p>
<p>It's a really engaging lecture class. I loved it and it's pretty easy.</p>
<p>I also like how they still take attendance every lecture even though there's 1300 people. Probably has to do with the size of Maas' ego.</p>
<p>why is psych 101 so legendary if it's "pretty easy"? hahah.</p>
<p>Because it is interesting. A class doesnt have to be excruciatingly difficult for you to learn a lot.</p>
<p>Psych 101 is legendary because it's the largest single-lecture course in the world. Overall, it's a pretty easy course; lots of people get over 100%.</p>