<p>captrick - any reason why you are moving in by yourself? If your parents are busy and can’t get away, it is possible to move in by yourself, and there will be a lot of volunteers on hand to help out. But if it is at all possible, it would be nice to have them there. Many internationals do come by themselves.</p>
<p>^ I’ll be back from vacation (going by myself to China) around Aug 15th, so I want to arrive directly at Cornell instead of going home, and then go.
As for moving in, I’m more of a “home is where ever I am” person. All I’ll be bringing is probably some clothes and thats it (in a backpack). </p>
<p>I’ll be buying everything once I get there. I mean, what do you really need to live? Clothes (I have), shelter (I have), food (I can buy), money (I can work), happiness (I can gain).</p>
<p>^^^ a fan(you’ll get hot)
a floor lamp (you’ll need to see in the dark)</p>
<p>Did your kids want/need/use a safe in their dorm room?</p>
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People really steal stuff?</p>
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Are there AC in the dorm rooms?</p>
<p>I’m sure if you leave a laptop unattended in a common area it would grow legs pretty quickly. I hope people don’t steal things out of dorm rooms but I’d be interested to hear what the current student/parents think of this.</p>
<p>Only the newest dorms (Cort-Kay-Bauer and maybe Mews) are air conditioned. In Ithaca you don’t really need AC for most of the school year, but you’ll want some kind of fan if you don’t get a AC dorm most likely.</p>
<p>D lived in Dickson last year. She said no one locked their room and there was never an incident. I said they were all lucky. Lock your room every time. No ACs there.</p>
<p>We did get our daughter a small safe for her jewelry and her passport. She had a single and she kept her room locked. She never had anything stolen or damaged at Cornell. She has lost her iPhone and credit cards.</p>
<p>Captrick … I had a friend at Cornell who only allowed himself 100 posessions … everything counted … a pair of socks counted as 2, underwear, pencils, books, etc … he also could move himself with a backpack! But I must admit I thought he was often undressed for Ithaca winters (while he owned them he tended to avoid wearing long pants and jackets).</p>
<p>PS - and when I was there a bunch of kids moved themselves in</p>
<p>Given woody’s reply that there’s a culture of <em>not</em> locking doors, I’d feel even more strongly about the safe. Because if your kid has a roommate who will not agree to being vigilant about keeping the door locked, at least your kid can keep his passport and a few other small valuables safe. By the way, why do most kids have their passports at school (at least American kids)?</p>
<p>D1 uses it for verification of birthdate. D1 does travel internationally. </p>
<p>What is interesting is when she was a freshman, college was kind of like a summer camp, a temporary resident, so she only took what was necessary to school. But over time, our home became more of a transient place for her. She started to have more of her important documents in school, out of convenience. </p>
<p>Those kids do go to Canada, Mexico, or Caribbean for spring breaks. Sometimes they don´t get a chance to go home first.</p>
<p>Students travel with passports to prove their age. Proof of citizenship is required for many campus jobs. Many students participate in international service trips or international athletic or academic competitions during breaks. Underclassmen sometimes take a weekend in Canada where the legal age is 18.</p>
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Sounds like me! Except I’ll bring everything I can fit in a backpack.</p>
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yesss.</p>
<p>Hey parents and fellow students,</p>
<p>I live in SoCal and my parents and I are trying to decide how to get to New York. Plane or car? Time isn’t too big of an issue, so we’re fine with driving. We’re just not sure how the costs will turn out. One of the benefits of driving is to bring everything I need and already have, rather than buying all my stuff there (like clothes, shoes, etc).</p>
<p>Any opinions? (Oh, and should we be looking for places to stay at Ithaca now? We are planning to stay for approximately a week at Ithaca. What would be the best transportation & stay method for my situation?)</p>
<p>Yes, you need to look now for a place to stay. If it’s going to be a big group for a week – maybe see if there are vacation rental homes on the lake.</p>
<p>If you fly into Syracuse or Rochester or NYC you would have to rent a car. And if you fly into ITH … you may not be able to get a local hotel at this point and would have to rent a car anyway.</p>
<p>It’s 19 in Ontario, which is the closest province to Cornell, but if you can make it all the way up to Quebec it is 18 there.</p>
<p>The Ithaca Hotel business is an excellent example of supply and demand…and its affect on prices. When everyone comes to Ithaca to move the kids in or out or graduation or Parents Weekend or Homecoming at either Cornell or Ithaca College, rooms are expensive and there may be a minimum stay required…plan ahead for your trips.</p>
<p>You don´t want to know how much we are paying for a house on the lake for the graduation week - it´s the price of a villa in Italy. I would imagine move in week would be as much in demand.</p>
<p>^^^ if anything, more so for move-in since the parents aren’t offered the option of staying in the dorms!</p>
<p>Wonder how it will be for reunion,we might show up this year if my D2 is still up there.
Maybe we’ll rent a campground and camp out, if I remember how & still have the gear.</p>
<p>In which case it will definitely rain, since it rains every time I go camping. (Come to think of it, did that old tent have a leak?..)</p>