<p>I know there will be all of the informative activities, but where can I go/what can I do to get a feeling for what the campus is really like?
Also, as a prospective engineering student, what should I do to see what Cornell engineering is all about besides going to the engineering related Cornell Days activities?
Thanks.</p>
<p>Eat in the dining hall, visit the dorms and have an ice cream at the Dairy Bar (yummy!!!)</p>
<p>I suggest you talk to current students (especially during dinner like when you are waiting in line etc) to get a better feel from the people who are there to make you want to come (like me).</p>
<p>go to the gym! your name tag will let you go to the gym for freee (alas, we did not get free bus transporation except the ones at night)</p>
<p>wear comfortable shoes if you want to see all of campus. GO LISTEN TO THE CHIMES (it's loud, so maybe some earplugs) but then go upstairs and look at the view...it is breathtaking...so is the view from the 5th floor of the Johnson Museum (go there too!)</p>
<p>go check out the fishbowl in Uris Library (when you go in the door, make a left and go down the stairs. keep walking towards the right, and you will approach the stairs leading down to the fishbowl. check out the rest of the library and olin library while you are at it.</p>
<p>go on a tour of the plantations, you will not regret it! i also mentioned this in another cornell days thread to smell the geraniums outside of the gift shops. they were genetically altered to smell like chocolate, oranges, mints, etc.</p>
<p>go to the footbridge (right outside behind noyes language lodge and balch) and the waterfall will spray mist on you...also visit the suspension bridge and jump on it...it will rock and shake (the suspension bridge is right across from the johnson museum...there is a set of stairs going down.</p>
<p>go visit sage chapel. it's really awesome in there (it's across from willard straight)</p>
<p>walk up the stairs to baker lab. ALL those stairs + 2 more flights up to get to 200 Baker. for most of you, this will be the route you take to go to Chem 207+208 (almost as bad as the 161 stairs up mcgraw tower)</p>
<p>bring tennis rackets and balls if you want to play in the tennis court right next to risley (or swimsuit if you want to swim in helen newman)</p>
<p>walk around bebee lake.</p>
<p>sleep in the dorms.</p>
<p>go to the observatory too.</p>
<p>is all of that possible in one day?</p>
<p>Haha yeah, seems a lot to me for a day lol</p>
<p>When I visit, I'm gonna spend more than a day there definitely.</p>
<p>I'm shooting for two and a half days. That should give me a decent idea of what the campus is like.</p>
<p>quynh2007,</p>
<p>GREAT LIST of activities... I'll add a few more...</p>
<p>go to a Lacrosse Game - they're playing Harvard on 4/9
go to Bound For Glory on Sunday night at Anabel Taylor Hall
Visit the Ivy Room at the Straight
Go to the Lindseth Climbing Wall</p>
<p>we could go on forever....</p>
<p>I'm visiting next weekend... can hardly wait...</p>
<p>Wharf</p>
<p>You should check out the library at 4:00am to get a feel of that part of campus life.</p>
<p>I don't know if my overnight host will let me do that, but it would definetly be a good thing to see. Seeing as to how my host might be an engineering student, maybe he could just take me along.</p>
<p>they might not let you in the libraries after 2am...hopefully (for those of you insane to do it) they'll let you in b/c of your ID tag...</p>
<p>Would I probably stumble on some engineering students if I visit the library in the wee hours of the morning? Also, is there more than one library? Is there every a shortage of room to study at the library?</p>
<p>You stumble across engineering students like you stumble across rocks on the ground. They (we i should say) are like 1/4 of the student body. So when you go to say, are there any engineers in "-------" (insert club, group, sport, fraternity/sorority name, etc), the answer is pretty much yes. And yeah there are like 6 or 7 or more libraries (i forget bc i only use 3) and while the libraries can get crowded there usually isnt a shortage of space.</p>
<p>lol, im going april 9th...i dont hafta preorder the tickets for the lacrosse right? just show up game day and pay? u know how much?</p>
<p>all sports except for men's hockey is free (for you, if you have parents, they will have to pay)</p>
<p>but if i dont register...? and what is parents?</p>
<p>oh you need to register so you can get one of those nametags which will let you go to movies at student discount rates, ride the bus at night, gym for free, and see sports for free.</p>
<p>but i plan to only be there from like noon to7 absolute latest prolly cuz i been there lots, dont want to spend money stayhing over night...and am busy wit school now neways..also want to leave things to do during o week</p>
<p>you can register as a day visitor</p>
<p>Can someone please tell me what engineering related-Cornell Days activities would be good to attend?</p>