November 5, 2024

7 thoughts on “Cornell: Where dreams go to die

  1. Considering that less than eight percent of all entering Cornell students don’t graduate in six years or less, I think you might want to rethink your use of anecdotal examples. Keep in mind that a fair amount of those who do not graduate actually end up transferring to even more rigorous institutions or leave Ithaca for non-academic familial or medical reasons.

  2. Absolutely – agreed. I would say the vast majority of people find that Cornell is in fact a great place to achieve one’s dreams. Basically this was supposed to be a lighthearted approach on the fallacy of ‘dreams dying at Cornell,’ and the Cornell stereotype of being a breeding ground for depression, suicide, etc. As far as reasons for students leaving, I’m sure there is a substantial amount of those who leave for more rigorous education or familial / medical / financial reasons, but I still think that a substantial amount of students are falling behind due to their acceptance being heavily influenced by factors other than academic competence.

  3. Intrigued by this article I decided to do a little freelance investigation and data gathering of my own. Through complex equations, polling, number crunching, and some under the table bribes (yes unfortunately many of them were sexual, but then again what good journalist doesn’t have flexible morals?) I set out to find what things were going to die and where were the aforementioned things dying. After careful analysis of these cold hard facts I have drawn these conclusions:
    Harvard-Where your sex life goes to die.
    Princeton- Where your heterosexual sex life goes to die.
    UPenn- Where your social life goes to die.
    Yale- See Harvard
    Columbia- Where athletics go to die.
    Dartmouth- Where my application went to die.
    Brown- Where your brain cells go to die.

  4. Hahaha thanks for the contributions to this on-going research, Ussdaddy. I’m afraid all of those locations, unfortunately, are mortuaries for college applications. (or at least cornell was this year!)

  5. Ussdaddy: I trust that that research is very accurate. But Cornell?! They have some of the greatest minds in the college-aged part of society, as I can see by the posts on this Blog. I wonder what would happen if they would be mortuaries for my college application, if I sent it.

  6. Hahahaha that first dude got completely rebutalized, and yes i made up that word. Clearly, my man was making a subtle argument against a ridiculous policy within Cornell. But, you just had to get way too defensive. Bottom line, the statements made by my dude are straight up physics; Cornell has received a stereotype that it does not deserve, yet it brought it upon itself. Without a change to the system, the self inflicted stereotype will continue to burden Cornell. Its the truth… dig it. And the guy who made the first comment needs to righten up a little bit, and yes, I did intend to use the word righten. PEACE

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