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“Given I had never worked for a really large company, I had the image of these large firms as really well-oiled machines where everything was operating smoothly. It was reassuring and almost calming to see that there are mistakes along the way and no one’s perfect.”
While Lee had to quickly respond to the market crash, Song’s investments were already completely safe due to pure chance. He had liquidated his portfolio right before the crash with the intent of constructing a new one.
Chen spoke to the lessons that students could take away from the program, including valuable soft skills such as interpersonal and communication skills, strong teamwork and leadership skills as well as hard skills including “business acumen from their mentors” and “how to implement industry practices in creating secure and robust software and designing impactful, user-friendly products.”
Students change original summer plans, turning to online courses due to uncertainty of internships and job availability.
“One-way video interviews are an understandably unnatural experience.” Here are four Cornell students’ tips on how to sell your professional self through a computer screen.
A class action lawsuit against Cornell is one of several suits against universities that say distance learning isn’t a suitable replacement for in-person instruction.
The state of the job market has become a concern for many students at Cornell who are facing internship cancellations and deferrals. However, students with certain majors who are pursuing their area of studies’ related fields — namely tech and finance — may have fewer worries than others.
“At the end of the day, I had to take a job I didn’t really want coming out of school at a pay rate that I probably didn’t want either,” Nolan said. “But I suppose that’s part of what made me an attractive candidate.”
Beginning with the Class of 2024, the University will stop biannually reporting accepted student application numbers and demographics — an uncommon move among top-tier universities.
Thursday’s “Ivy Day” marked a culmination of years of hard work and ambition for Cornell’s newly admitted class of 2024.