“Lots of people like it at Cornell.”
To elaborate on my own post :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWXK4npGxKE
Every alum will likely recognize some version of this Cornell.
Many will also remember sometimes being stressed out and tired.*
It is not devoid of sports-related “fun” either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_UrhA-ilWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kuki_rop9w&index=35&list=PL2pdT9mh07CDOgX5OkzJ4vCNGkYKIPTgf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQjATMbzivQ
So y’all can chaw on that along with the tobacky on your way down South.
Really your post reads like you were given a bunch of talking points from the people in Durham (Our 7 billion dollar endowment…). (BTW, Cornell is divided into “endowed division” and “statutory division”. The statutory colleges get money from New York State. A 2008 article I saw estimated the endowment-equivalent of these state funds at $3.5 Billion)
*Thing is, at least at the underclass level, science and engineering classes are curved at virtually every university. If you take similarly smart people, with similar post-graduate objectives, and put them each in curved classes, why would there be much difference in resulting stress levels? Nobody has ever explained that to me to my satisfaction. I don’t see why there would be any material difference, actually. It doesn’t make sense.