<p>I know this is a really stupid request, but could someone write a brief description of a day at Cornell, with some of the details? I got rejected yesterday, and I would have really liked to know what it feels like to go there. I guess I’ll never know, but I’d at least like to read about someone else’s experience at such an awesome school…</p>
<p>its like getting rejected by a girl. it hurts even more when youve alrdy imagined yourself there for so long. anyway Im trying to forget about it</p>
<p>I spent 3 months at Cornell for Summer College for Architecture, so my day will be a bit different. I stayed in Balch Hall which is near the Architecture quad. </p>
<p>The room is small, but cozy with two beds, a conjoined bathroom, bookcase, nice closet space, belongings tucked neatly in my half, but messily on my roommate’s half. You can practically draw a line to see my side of the room, and yet she’s so hard-working I can forgive the mess. It’s still 6 AM, so I slip out of my room quietly so as not to wake my roomie and tuck my lanyard and keycard into my jog bra and go for a run. Balch is situated right across from Beebe Lake, so I cross the street and run down the wooden steps onto the trail. Crunching the gravel beneath my feet, I look out across the lake as the sun’s first rays hit the water and illuminate the folliage. I climb up and across a stone bridge dividing the lake from the gorges, and decide that another day I will visit them. For now, I am concentrating on my run. I finish the 1 mile loop across another bridge over a majestic waterfall, and jog up the path to Helen Newman Hall for a morning swim. It is now 6:20. The water is the perfect temperature, and I swim for two hours before going to breakfast. Quickly, I run to RPCC after changing in the locker room. My first class begins at 9:00 and I have 40 minutes to eat breakfast. I meet up with my roommate and her friends, as well as several archies. Breakfast is a mixture of omelette, french toast, Chinese, English, Calculus and Architecture. I walk with my friends to class through Balch courtyard, and already you can hear singing drift lazily out of windows and lilting piano playing an old popular K-pop song. The acoustics are perfect, bouncing off of the moss colored stones and stairs. </p>
<p>My first class is actually two classes, but I combine them into one mentally. They’re lectures, and what’s exciting is we have many guest speakers. Some are more interesting than others, but all genuinely love architecture. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the lecture cycle is broken by a special drawing class, a nice change. We get to go outside and practice sketching new techniques instead of sitting. These two classes last until 12:30, with a 30 minute break in between. Sometimes lecture ends early and we all run to lunch. I like to take a 30-minute nap around lunch, because what comes after, studio, is a bit brutal.</p>
<p>Studio officially begins at 1:30, though TAs and teachers filter in sometime around 2:00. We are either working on a project or being assigned a new one. Either way, we are all cutting, measuring, drawing until 11:00 at night, when the curfew requires us to report back to our dorms. In the regular school year, there is no curfew and kids just work all night. Some people order dinner from a little Chinese place and bubble tea (beware, not all the food from this place is good, some is weird!) and around 8:00 we all order insomnia cookies. I always managed to leave studio before or around 8:00 though. On fridays, everyone takes the night off regardless of workload. We go to downtown Ithaca via Bus, or go to the mall. We go out for dinner and relax, shop, watch a movie. The curfew on Fridays and Saturdays are 12:00, so we can stay out a little bit later. After being used to such a small-town atmosphere, it’s nice to get to know other people and make new friends. We all pile into bed around 11:00 or 12:00. Some bring their projects to their dorm and pull an all-nighter despite curfew. For me, I just sleep because I need to be up in the morning to start it all over again.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. I know it’s a bit limited because I’m in architecture and thus live in studio, but there’s so much to do in free time in Ithaca despite the “smallness” of it. The library is amazing, there’s a movie theater, stores, a mall that has Target and the bus system is really convenient. There’s Starbucks located everywhere. You can go to the gorges and the Cornell Plantations are a really nice place to go and eat lunch. If you have a ride, you can get to a Wegmans nearby and shop for all your food. It does get really snowy in winter and cold, but in my opinion that’s when it turns into a wonderland and the waterfalls freeze. It’s so pretty.</p>
<p>Wow, thank you for that description. It was beautiful. Cornell sounds like such a great place</p>
<p>I’m sorry you didn’t get in. But there are other schools out there that are just as amazing and just as beautiful. 
don’t worry!</p>
<p>Yellowdog I understand where your coming from; Cornell has some unique qualities certainly but it’s really not that different from many other colleges in your experience there and life.</p>
<p>depending on what youre interested in you could apply to Ithaca College. my cousin goes there and likes it</p>
<p>Yellowdog–I think a typical day at Cornell is pretty similar to a day at the school you will ultimately attend.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I still think Cornell is special…</p>
<p>If you’re still interested, I can do one for you.</p>
<p>Yeah you should Saugus</p>
<p>hey yellowdog u can always transfer to cornell after a year :)</p>