Does anyone actually care where I go to school (engineering)?

monydad
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:39:03 +0000

“I ended up spending most of my weekend nights on the Campus to Campus bus to stay with friends at NYU”

Too bad it evidently didn’t happen for you. but If you’d formed comparable relationships at Cornell there would have been no motivation for those bus trips, just sayin. I couldn’t get my D2 out of there, at all. And you might have noticed, when you got off the bus, that NYC is humongously more “high-cost” than Ithaca is. That’s actually one of the reasons my D2 cited when she transferred out of college in NYC to Ithaca.

But Buffalo may well be cheaper. I’ve no basis to quibble about that. I personally like Ithaca quite a bit, but if you prefer Buffalo so be it. You’re entitled. But, while it may have its set of advantages, I’m not so sure the vast majority of people would prefer going to school in Buffalo vs. Ithaca. Life in a college town, Ithaca specifically, has its own charm that maybe you did not get to fully experience. Unfortunately.

Sometimes things don’t work out for someone, even though they do for identical-seeming other people at the very same place, at the very same time. This happened to both my daughters, in fact. And when that happens it is totally appropriate to change ones environment, after consideration.

But not working out for you personally is not the same as “everything stinks there”. I, for one, don’t agree that “everything stinks there”. I do believe it “stunk”, relatively, for you though. Every place has its pluses and minuses, which people may variously weigh.