How much school pride do Cornell students have?

oldfort
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:11:07 +0000

GraceTone - back in Aug 20 you posted:

You’ve come to the wrong place if you’re looking for fun.
Fun dies in Cornell.

That was 3 days after move in, you already decided that Cornell wasn’t going to be fun for you. I am just curious to know what is it about the school that you are not able to have fun as an 18 year old. You seem to be stressing over your grades quite a bit. My kid is too, but I often remind her to keep it in perspective (she is pre-law, so her GPA is going to be important). I also have a nephew at Cornell. He is a sophomore. He wasn’t very happy freshman year because of his grades and trying to adjust coming from the west coast. This year he is loving it because he finally got it figured out on how to study in college.

Last night I called our younger daughter to see how she was feeling because she had a cold. She couldn’t talk for long because she was at a hockey game with her friends and they were going to some parties after that. I met some of her friends few weeks ago when I was at Cornell for a recruiting event. They all said college was more fun than they expected. They all thought they would be studying all the time, but most of them are involved with ECs and have time to party.

Our older daughter graduated from Cornell few years ago, she and her friends still miss their years at Cornell. They just went back for Homecoming - rented a house on the lake. They meet up together often, whether it is DC, NY, Boston, or SFO. They all love the fact that their friend’s baby sister is there. I have few young Cornellians working for me. On casual Fri, they like to wear their Cornell shirt sometimes.