Blinded by the Dream

Ankh
Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:36:09 +0000

First of all, just stop worrying. Yes, you love it, but you’ve already stated yourself that you will probably be happy at other schools. Well, you’re not going to only apply to Cornell, right? I assume that you’ll be applying to several other schools as well and hopefully putting effort into them. If you are rejected, well, there’s nothing to it. You’re rejected and you’re going somewhere else and you’ll probably end up happy at that school, like you said.

Following up on what Following up on MPD14’s advice, I’ll try to lend you hand on getting your mind off Cornell (:.


Dude, Cornell is worst ivy school, and people don’t let it go. You will be taunted by friends as “the kid who went to the suck ivy school.”
The setting is rural. Rural is not good. You will be taunted endlessly by kids from Columbia and Barnard and NYU.
Crazy grade deflation makes it hard to graduate, and the students are extremely competitive. Do you really want people secretly ripping up your tests while you’re sleeping?
The weather. Think about it: midterm exams are here, and it’s snowstorming like crazy. You can’t go get a hot chocolate because you’re snowed in. You can’t study because the snowstorm killed the power. And worst of all, you’re probably going to fail that midterm anyway just because of grade deflation.
The dorms are incredibly far from the classes. Do you really want to walk half a mile in pouring rain or flurries in below zero weather?


(This is all in good humor, though. I am aware that all of the statements are blatantly false, and I personally actually like Cornell myself :P)