Cornell settled an April 2020 class-action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $3 million towards a compensation fund for students impacted by online classes in the Spring 2020 semester.
As undergraduates scramble to finalize housing plans for next year, students applying to cooperative houses are meeting future housemates through Zoom rooms through the first-ever fully virtual Co-op Mosey.
This will be the University’s will be hosting its second consecutive virtual reunion — this year’s will include a commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020.
My mom’s favorite things to share about her college experience were all the memories she had of her friends. The late night study sessions, the dorm dynamics, the nights out, and sneaking extra coffee cake from the dining hall. So as I took my first steps on North Campus, I was filled with excitement and expectation thinking of the great friendships that awaited me. Similarly to high school, I was fed a narrative of college being the greatest time of my life, the place where I would make my forever friends and other rose-tinted statements that are simultaneously true and false.
While I certainly talked to and gave a lot of people my phone number during O-Week, a lot of those numbers are sitting in my contacts like emails in my inbox from the club listservs I joined out of genuine interest but never ended up going to. Still, I’ve met many wonderful people that have been invaluable to me as pillars of support, cheerleaders, relationship coaches, comedians, study buddies and just proof that amazing human beings are out there.