<p>Oh that reminds me:</p>
<p>Do the townhouses get like a cleaninglady like the bathrooms in the normal dorms do?</p>
<p>Like will someone come weekly to clean our bathrooms or will the people living in the town houses have to?</p>
<p>plus, as a note, judging from your posts, you don't seem like a person with that good of social skills... At ibank firms, employers won't hire you even if you are the smartes person in the world if you don't have good social skills. Keep that in mind. Many with perfect gpas from schools like even UPenn or HYP get denied. My advice? Work on getting along with others and improve your social skills. Getting locked up in your room by yourself and living like an antisocial hermit won't do you any good for the ibank job.</p>
<p>my gf had a townhouse, but i don't think they cleaned it</p>
<p>when i was in a dorm, the bathrooms and hallways were cleaned 5 days a week.</p>
<p>Last semester my schedule was timed just right so that I'd get to use the bathroom right after they cleaned it. Needless to say, it was awesome.</p>
<p>splinter, you still havent been able to back up your question and reasoning of being able to and wanting to pick a roommate based on race and religion...and i still find that very offensive</p>
<p>splintercell, I ll answer all your questions(by doing some easy online research) if you tell us your real name....</p>
<p>I lived in the townhouses.</p>
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<li><p>No maid comes and cleans. </p></li>
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<p>From that perspective, if 3 of your roommates are normal you won't have any guarantee that your bathroom is any cleaner than any others unless you make it that way yourself. With your antisocial peculiarities, you might find the need to make 4 people live together effectively rather than just 2 in a normal dorm far more of a challenge at your level of post high school maturity.</p>
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<p>I know what you mean. Using the bathroom after it's just been cleaned, when it's still pearly white and squeakly clean, is just heaven.</p>
<p>And seriously, if you're living in a townhouse with only 3 other people, find a way to clean up after yourselves. Good God. You don't need a maid to clean what is essentially a private bathroom.</p>
<p>As far as race and religion goes, I honestly have nothing against any one particular race/religion. My friend circle is pretty diverse, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, atheists, etc, as well a myriad of races. </p>
<p>However, it is a undeniable fact that if you share a room with someone from the same religious/cultural background as you, it makes living much easier. Now some of you will argue this, and I suppose it differs from person to person, but, and don't take this offensively, I personally think that for certain races/religions, especially christians, it is easier to adapt to living with other people because they don't have as much reservations as other races.</p>
<p>For example, (and I could be wrong), most christians don't have to pray 5 times a day and thus living with someone of a different religion doesn't matter. Muslims, on the other hand, have to pray 5 times a day and thus it would facilitate their life if they lived with another Muslim. (I am not saying it is possible to pray while living with other people from different races/religions but it is more difficult.)</p>
<p>Rohan, why do you want to know my real name? I mean I honestly don't care because in real life, I am not as worried/blunt as I am on the message boards now but this is because college will be a drastic alteration of my normal life ( much more drastic than an average Americans).</p>
<p>Splintercell -- I wouldn't provide your name. I suspect that they are inquiring for less than noble purposes. That being said, it probably won't be very difficult to discern who you are once you get on campus. The ILR incoming class is pretty small.</p>
<p>Realize that if you do encounter a couple of hiccups in dealing with people or transitioning to life at Cornell (as people sometimes do at any school they enroll in, it's not any worse at Cornell), there is a support system out there for you. I'm not saying that you will necessarily need to use these services, but in my opinion most people can benefit from these types of services. I myself regret not using CAPS at Cornell until my senior year. But between CAPS, EARS, ILR Student Services, residential hall directors, and faculty advisers, there is a pretty big support system at Cornell, and students should take advantage of it.</p>
<p>Godspeed.</p>
<p>Exactly. I am not worried about concealing my identity persay because you will find, once you meet me next year, I am not an arrogant person or anything. I am very meticulous and a germaphobe but that is all. </p>
<p>I simply had reservations and was asking questions, which I suppose was offensive. </p>
<p>Oh and I do care about prestige but not as much as I am making it out to seem. lol. (But still I wish ILR didn't have this weird name.)</p>
<p>Thanks Cayuga.</p>
<p>What is CAPS btw?</p>
<p>cornell</a> caps - Google Search</p>
<p>You are going to be a Cornell student. Start to learn how to be a little bit resourceful. Google is a good place to start.</p>
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<p>Not offensive, just highly entertaining. I thought the religion question was reasonable enough for exactly the points you mention.</p>
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<p>If that's the biggest issue in your life right now, I feel sorry for you. They thought about changing the name 10 years ago, but thought better of it. It really is a school where you learn about the different tensions that exist within the economy. Industrial relations is the de facto name for that subject in academia. Even Princeton uses the name. The Princeton program, coincidentally, is headed by a Cornell ILR alum.</p>
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<p>So what it's a "weird name" (I agree that the name really doesn't reflect the school and its curriculum). I did 30-40 interviews with numerous companies, not once did the name make them flinch. And for the ones that did notice, it made for a great intro vs. them asking me "tell me about economics". </p>
<p>Also, a surprising percentage of my interviewers were ILR alums, and it was great to have that instant connection with them.</p>
<p>Hmm interesting. I mean ILR is awesome from what I have heard so far but I don't know, I hate the thought of going out to dinner and someone asking me what I study and I say, Industrial and Labor Relations....</p>
<p>Oh and can you double major across collegeS? No right? (At Cornell days, one of the admission officers and one of the students said you could).</p>
<p>Cause then I could double major in econ and ILR. But whatever, I will see.</p>
<p>Oh and one more thing, typically, how many graduates graduate with a BA in econ from Cornell?</p>
<p>200+ or less or what?</p>
<p>I tell people not from Cornell that I studied economics and history. Which is true.</p>
<p>at times, it feels like half of Cornell is an econ major. You can take tons of econ classes through ILR, labor econ is even one of the departments at the ILR school and a certain number of econ classes are required to graduate. Employers see your transcript anyways, it doesn't matter whether you take 15 econ classes and earn a minor or you take 15 classes and don't earn a minor - they see the same dang thing. </p>
<p>you can just say you study economics anyways. Or economics at the ILR school. Or labor economics. I usually just tell people I studied organizational behavior (which is what the majority of my classes were). </p>
<p>I realize your high school friends appear to be judging you, but trust me, they're very out of touch with reality. If it wasn't for this board, I don't think you'd have a clue over some very important issues.</p>
<p>to answer your question,
program houses that have suite styles (this is true for HILC, JAM, Ujamaa)because you can basically be guaranteed into the program houses.
request for the singles.
each suite has 2 doubles and 2 singles and there's a full bathroom for a suite. so you can live in your own room and share bathroom with only a couple people</p>