hispanics at cornell

sparticus800
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:35:43 +0000

^^^well, people like yourself in the sense that they’re of hispanic background. There are also people like yourself based on gender, interests, geographic location, etc.

I’m not a minority but it seems that your choice should depend on how tightly spanish culture is intertwined with your life. If you need your cafe con leche and your siesta, latino house probably sounds good. If you’re proud of your heritage but want to live with people from all different racial backgrounds, a regular dorm is better. You can still hang out and attend most of the events at the latino house when you want to.

Personally i’m interested in meeting all kinds of people and wouldn’t want to live in an exclusively “jewish living community” (not that cornell has one). Of course if i were a very orthodox jew, that might change the story. But for me, living with everyone, and going to some events at the hillel center would suffice. I think it all comes down to you asking yourself how much spanish you want.

Forgive me using hispanic, spanish and latino interchangably if I did…

In terms of the actual facilities, I don’t know about the conditions in the latino house versus the regular dorms.

Some dorms you have to share a bathroom with the ppl on your hall, but in others like Ct. and Mews, just with the other 4 people living in your suite. But under no circumstance will you have your own bathroom. I’ve lived in a dorm w/ communal bathrooms for weeks at a time before, and it really doesn’t get that bad. You might have to wait a few minutes at peak times, but the only thing that there were significant waits for was laundry.