Kurt Vonnegut talking about his time at Cornell

[Colm]

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he was a chemistry major at Cornell but spent all his time and energy on The Daily Sun and was basically flunking out, a fate which he enlisted to avoid.
He liked the Sun, obviously, but did not like Cornell. After the war he never came back there, rather he got a Master’s at U Chicago (without benefit of a prior BA, evidently you could do that then) on the GI bill.

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<p>My guess is that Vonnegut did not like the chemistry major that was forced upon him by his father (thinking that it was more practical than journalism/humanities). Otherwise his father was going to refuse to help with tuition. I don’t think that Vonnegut “didn’t like Cornell” per se … at least I couldn’t find corroboration of this claim in my quick perusal of a few online Vonnegut biographies.</p>

<p>Edit - I see that CayugaRed was on similar track above…</p>