Should we pick Cornell College?

ahmorgan
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:29:37 +0000

Well he went to Cornell - and for the most part, it has worked very well for him. His roomate was somewhat challenging, but he wouldn’t push it to switch. So he survived. Academically, he has done well, and has had some terriffic opportunities, such as a course on theatre criticism during the April '07 block that was conducted in NYC - the whole class just relocated to NY, and lived in a hotel for 3 weeks.

The pace of things is quite rapid - he’s in a playwriting course this block, and has to write a lot, and fast. One really good thing - he’s learning not to just put an assignment away for later - he just can’t do that and survive.

Probably my only real concern is that the Music department encouraged him to be in every ensemble possible (choir, orchestra, band, etc.), which stretched him too thinly - and since each of these is a GRADED activity, it hurt him when he couldn’t get them all done well, while being in theatre productions (his major). I do find that a problem. But he’s learning more about how to manage his commitments. Unfortunately, it means he’s not in musical ensembles at all right now. Maybe he’ll find a happy medium.

Good luck!