Cornell is indeed the lowest class of universities that I have ever known, not that I have been to many colleges, but Cornell sure as hell is! What else you can expect here, rural-ish style settings with archaic buildings built amidst the jagged and mile-deep gorges of Ithaca. And millions of visitors come to Cornell to see the beautiful surrounding, and guess what! They still are going back to where they come from, modern city with complete amenities, huge shopping malls, high-class street cafe where you can run into Cindy Crawford and she doesn't know you. So what do you have in Cornell and Ithaca? Oh, don't tell me that lame award-winning Ithaca Commons again! And be advised that Boston Commons and Ithaca Commons are not twin brothers or anything. And that darn Pyramid Mall will drive you crazy the second time you've been there. And guess why Ezra Cornell made such a perfect decision to built the campus among the beautiful and deep gorges of Ithaca Falls and Cascadilla Creek? So that any unlucky Cornell student who gets below mean in Math 294 can find such a wonderful 'respite' at the bottom of these gorgeous gorges. Don't be surprised to find bodies everywhere whenever you walk along the gorge trails. Those kids may flunk their studies at Cornell, but they may find peace and solace thereafter, of course, at the bottom of the gorges. Boy, I must've scared the shit out of you potential Cornell freshies! Don't worry, Math 294 isn't the only subject that you maybe potentially get below the mean, Physics 213 and 214 are also equivalently hazardous to your CGPA. The professors really love to make super-hard exam papers and watch the students making weird faces when answering them. And when you think the question was damn hard enough that the mean would be around 30, suddenly it turned out the mean score was 85 and there were a godzillion son of a b**** that score 100. Then you know you're the one, baby! Then you may hear the souls of the deceased calling for you from Cascadilla Gorge, or East Avenue Bridge, or the suspension bridge, depending on your threshold frequency of hearing. Then you know you have had to join them. That's the only exit from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Join the ghost or face your parents, or your sponsor, whichever might apply to you. Or you might consider transfering to Ithaca College which right nearby if you will miss the gorges, the Cayuga Lake, the Pyramid Mall or again, the award winning Commons. Still, there are super-intelligent kids that can get 4.30 GPA every semester. (At Cornell, an A+ translate to 4.30 GPA) And I have no right to declare them as my worst enemy or anything. But surely those are the people that make Cornell administration so complacent about the quality and quantity of time average students spent for study (and normally don't get the desired result). They'll say, "ah, what the heck, there are millions of student can score 4.3 every semester, there gotta be a few that are left out!" That's so not true, for God sake. Hahaha, I may sound a little cynical about Cornell. Guess what! I don't like Cornell. Period. My fondness toward my future alma mater is slumping at the same pace as my CGPA. I don't know, but by the time I graduated from Cornell, assuming that I would, my CGPA would be negative number. And I would be the first person in the solar system to accomplish such preposterous achievement. With a little assidous effort of course! Only time will tell...