Question about Cornell Life

redshoes
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:47:06 +0000

Yes, there’s PLENTY of complaining about grade deflation at Princeton with their grading policy. My best friend who went to Bucknell said there was so much complaining about workload there that she and her friends made a pact that they weren’t allowed to talk about it at all. My god daughter went to Harvard and struggled with the social scene and the insane competitiveness for interviews and jobs in consulting and i-banking. Another friend goes to Brown where he works very hard in a wide array of subjects. Just get over it. You’re not going on vacation, you’re going to college where you SHOULD be challenged to do well. If you do your work and ask for help if you need it, you’ll be fine.
People seem to think that they’ve worked hard in high school (many, not all) and plan on intense careers (medicine, engineering) but that college should be a world of easy achievement and balance. Why? The rest of life isn’t like that, trust me.