<p>Russian? Cool, I speak it with my family at home. It's a tough language for a non-Slavic language speaker to learn, especially the soft sounds. I still have trouble with grammar sometimes!</p>
<p>Ahh okay sweet that means we'll definitely have to meet up next year. :) Don't ask me to use any Russian now though, I have no idea whatsoever about the language (German is questionable too, hee). </p>
<p>Can't believe I wrote "by the time I start at Cornell"!</p>
<p>sarahdolly how do you like germany???</p>
<p>It's amazing! I'm having a great time here. One thing I want to bring back to the States is hugs - people are so much more liberal with hug giving here! Like if you go to a party, even if you didn't really talk to certain people and don't know them well at all, everyone will give each other (you) hugs goodbye at the end. </p>
<p>I guess I could be an exception though because I will hopefully be good friends with the people I partied with by the end of the year? But still, I have no idea where the stereotype of Germans being cold comes from!</p>
<p>thats exciting! where are you originally from?</p>
<p>San Jose, California. I'm an Asian cliche and am applying ED to COE.</p>
<p>haha you're an asian cliche thats funny :)
and i applied ED to CALS</p>
<p>Haha, we should sarah. If we get accepted. I know about the whole "by the time I start at Cornell" thing, sometimes I catch myself talking about what I'm going to do when I go to Cornell. Good luck with Russian!</p>
<p>ahahah, yeah I can't help but to daydream sometimes XD the day when the letter comes, the day when I yell to the world that I'm going to Cornell!!XD and then I wake up...lol yeah canadian asian cliche here.. XD CoE too :D</p>
<p>and i'm totally not ready for rejection T_T, don't even think i wanna apply to the states anymore after i get rejected for ED..., and by then all canadian scholarships are gone..haha LiFe..</p>
<p>I'll have to meet up with you two too, sarah and Chandler! I plan on starting Russian, and continuing with french.</p>
<p>Does anybody else have an intense desire for suite-style living? And not the psuedo-suite pods?</p>
<p>Besides your dorm, what's the first place you'd visit when you got there?</p>
<p>Yeah, we should haha. But let's get our decisions first :P
I plan on continuing Spanish (and Chinese if I can) and maybe starting up Japanese.
But I don't know if I'll be able to fit it, since I want to do the HBHS major and a concentration in Spanish.</p>
<p>Yeah, suite-style sounds sweet. What are the pseudo-suite pods?
I might do the suite thing sophomore year or something.
Do they assign suites to freshmen?</p>
<p>I like the whole common room idea, reminds me of Harry Potter hahaha</p>
<p>i want to live in a double or a triple freshman year :)</p>
<p>I had my interview today and the alumna talked about all the different housing options: most of North Campus is freshman, and there are about 3 floors of suite-style living in one of the buildings (I forget which), with a common-room with 2 doubles and 2 singles and a bathroom, whereas the pod-style is a cluster of ~6 dorms that share a bathroom. She just mentioned basically all the buildings on North Campus really fast and i was like....can't make a mental map that fast!</p>
<p>Exactly! It reminds me of Harry Potter, of which I am a MASSIVE fan!</p>
<p>Apparantly, because of the server crashing last year, Cornell will stagger decision release dates. My interviewer said that around the end of November/early December, on our ApplicantID pages, it will tell us to check back on a certain day at a certain time. Evidently, last year, they told everyone to check at 5 p.m. on December 15th, and because everybody was on the server to check the decisions, the server crashed. She said that she hoped that Cornell wouldn't make the same mistake again, and would stagger the dates, so that some people may know earlier than 12/15...thoughts?</p>
<p>That would definitely make sense, though it is going to cause me to check my ApplicantID page way too much.</p>
<p>i already check it wayyyy to much</p>
<p>agreed. 10char</p>
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<p>Oh man that is a really exciting thought: not having decisions postponed and possibly knowing early (maybe?)!</p>
<p>gracie: So am I, I'm actually re-reading the 7th book as we speak! Though at the expense of the book I'm supposed to reading for AP Lit.</p>
<p>I'll be happy with any dorm as long as I get in!</p>
<p>How'd the interview go in terms of Cornell-discussing, question-asking, etc?
Staggering decision release? That's awesome, and yeah I check my ApplicantID too much anyway so it doesn't matter. December 15th isn't actually that far away anymore, 28 days to go. It would be pretty terrible to check at 5 PM and not being able to get the decision because the server crashed again.</p>
<p>And knowing early would be AWESOME</p>