Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “I’ve … been in touch with them throughout the fall to discuss their dreams and ambitions for Cornell and their academic plans for their spring semester courses.”įor the 31 first-year students entering CALS this spring, more than half are enrolled in the Charles H. “One of the best parts of working with this particular group of students has been getting to know so many of them quite well,” she said. To make the spring transition an easy one, Lessmeister has been in close communication with the Arts and Sciences students. The class she’s most excited to begin? Earthquakes. I’m honestly really excited just to be learning in a classroom again.” “Besides falling in love with Yellowstone, I fell in love with our Earth, and consequently its processes like earthquakes and storms. “We worked 60-hour weeks, and on our off day or after work the park by hitchhiking, hiking or driving,” Stone said. Thomas and the Adirondacks, and finally ended the year by working the holiday season at L.L. Montana Stone ’19 spent part of the summer working at Yellowstone National Park, explored the Tetons, worked at a law firm, used the money she earned to visit St. Kevin Gao ’19, of Boston, said he’s looking forward to his freshman writing seminar, “The Making of Monsters,” and finding opportunities to tutor middle and high school students, which he’s done since 10th grade. “I want to become a part of the Ithaca community with my peers and enjoy everything that is different from where I was born and raised in Frisco, Texas.” “What I am most excited about is adjusting to life in Ithaca because I love new places and unfamiliar things,” Li said. Janet Li ’19 spent the fall semester taking classes at the University of Texas at Austin. “One student went abroad and spent the semester at the American University in Paris.” “One student spent time in rural Thailand to volunteer as an English teacher,” said Irene Lessmeister, advising dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Many in the group were full-time students elsewhere during the fall semester or they spent the time volunteering, doing research or traveling. Hailing from places like Florida, California, Kentucky and New York, Australia, Singapore, China, Thailand, Korea and Hong Kong, 115 new first-year students are part of a new admissions program that addresses the more than 100 percent increase in applications to Cornell in the last decade. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Hotel Administration and the College of Human Ecology welcome fresh faces to campus this week, as the university’s first group of spring first-year students arrives.
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