How much school pride do Cornell students have?

applejack
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:35:23 +0000

I hate it.
My friends hate it.

End of story.



It’s hard to make an honest assessment of Cornell if you’re only in your first semester. There are many reasons to love or hate it, so that’s not the end of the story. As an alum, I can say my appreciation for it has grown significantly since graduating. I see what it offers that other top schools simply cannot because they’re either much smaller or much more narrowly focused. The workload, in retrospect, makes it feel like you earned something and didn’t just stumble through. It’s a great campus, a beautiful area with wineries, waterfalls, and interesting stores downtown to explore.

As an aside, the fact that you’re wandering the internet at 7:30 on a Sunday morning might suggest you’re not utilizing your time to discover why so many people are in tears on graduation day because they have to leave such a wonderful, intense experience.

Join some groups, make some new friends. Your friends’ collective negativity is feeding off one another and you’re starting to think you all have it figured out. You don’t.