Cornell University Top Questions

Sign up for lots fo classes! You'll never know how much you can handle unless you push yourself. There are so many interesting courses and not enough time to take them all. You can always drop classes if they're too hard.

I wish I had a better idea of my career goals before I started. I could have been more focused and therefore, more effective, resulting in a higher income. However, I still have to say that things have turned out pretty well for me!

how the school does not provide ennough culturally enlightening atmosphere at the school

That most people are very friendly, and just as lonely and insecure and inexperienced as you are. In a big campus you can end up feeling like everyone has more friends than you (all the boys seemed to be best friends by the second day of orientation!) but if you have the confidence to smile and put yourself out there, almost everyone is really nice - and feeling just the way you are. Plus, you should try to meet people, because there is a fantastic diversity of interesting and extremely clever people here.

I wish I had known how to better study before coming to Cornell. At first, it was a hard adjustment, but overtime, you get the hang of things and it all becomes manageable. Its all a matter of not panicking and staying positive in knowing that it does get better overtime.

It is the coldest, dreariest place I've ever been, and engineering is very challenging.

I wish I done more research of the Academic programs offered

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The competition seemed overwhelming. I constantly have to tell myself that I can do it. High school was so easy with all the dumbies. This is NOT all dumbies. I am competitive, but the competition has been fierce.

I wish I had known more about financial aid options available. I wish I had known more about undergrads taking grad school classes. Some of the undergard classes had no real world practicality.