So I visited a marketing class at Stern today. I'd sat in on too many finance and accounting classes at other schools, so I thought I'd try marketing out for a change. The class unfortunately would have been a total snoozefest, had it not been for one really awesome presentation by a couple of European second year students. I'm so totally writing about them in my essays!
Other impressions - the Sternies are a cool bunch, no doubt, but now that I've spent some more time with them, I think some take the "down to earth" bit a little too seriously and "down to business" not as seriously.
Just my highly subjective opinion I guess.
And the "coffee with students" thing didn't seem really well organized, we were basically just given a coupon and told to go down and get something at the Sosnoff Lounge on the first floor. I wish the Admissions Office had actually asked the students who led us into class to hang out with us for a while there. I'm a bit of a wallflower, and the cafe was packed at 3pm! Rather than just try to barge in on conversations, I decided to skip the free coffee and walk around the building for a bit.
I think Cornell does its whole "student lunch" in a much better way, makes the prospectives feel a little more welcome. That or maybe I need to work on my networking skills.
Oh well, I'm still pretty sure I'll be applying R1 so nothing's changed my overall opinion of the place. I hope everyone else will get to visit a class, too.