<p>Oh I have no real beef with you. I did later take some engineering courses in which deliverable assignments were designed to be group efforts and I quite enjoyed them, but I came from a background (HIGHLY unrealistic, and in retrospect quite a mismatch) that strongly discouraged (forbade?) much in the way of social interaction. I suppose Cornell was never intended to work very well for those of us who were raised like that (for example if like me you never joined a frat then you never got access to any exam archives which could have been VERY helpful) but there was this ever-prevalent message “if you can’t take it get the heck out of here” and never much that could be counted as generally useful as counseling or anything of that ilk. Then again nowadays it is for quite a few reasons (after I finally threw in the towel and decided to have someone else evaluate my decisions) my therapist refers to me as “the ultimate survivor” (reasons that I refuse to discuss here). I didn’t mean to upset any applecarts, I’ll just say if you haven’t walked a mile in my moccasins then you don’t get to cast stones (to mix some tired metaphors).</p>