Not sure what you mean by this. S23 is at Cornell (Engineering) and has had the opposite experience. The work is certainly a grind, but he enjoys being able to balance it with an active social life. He continually tells me that students there know how to take breaks and have fun, and there is a lot of collaboration in his engineering classes. “Work hard, play hard,” seems to fit the student body.
That said, if you have concerns about weather, then Cornell is not the place to be. Although there wasn’t a lot of snow this winter, there were a lot of gray, drab, rainy days.