Staff here. My supervisor has gaslit me, steamrolled me, and severely undermined my confidence. I can no longer function normally at work or elsewhere. I cannot go on like this.

Has anyone been in a similar situation in this system? My DMs are open. I might not be able to share specifics, I am terrified of retaliation.

I was the "math kid" at my school. Skipped two grades in math. Took courses at my community college my senior year (Calc III and diff eq) because my high school did not offer it. Got a 36 on the Math section of the ACT.

I just took my first math prelim (MTH 2210) and scored 20 points below the median. I feel like a total idiot. I thought I knew the material pretty well too. I've been getting kind of subpar grades for the career I want to go in (academia?), but now I feel like I am just not good enough to get into the grad schools needed to do that. People have been telling me that I'm overreacting but linear algebra is a foo-foo class compared to some of the insane shit I'd be doing later on.

I'm not sure how to react to this information. I kind of have to major in math (?) because I need to graduate early for financial reasons and my transfer credits from community college make it significantly easier to do so.

What should I do? Got any advice?

I have never experienced as many inquiries about my alma mater as I am presently.

Leaked audio and video of Faculty Senate meeting

Mine has moved a few times this week. I’d love to hear what’s moved yours, if anything has, and whether it’s something we can currently see.

im on the student health insurance as an undergrad. I just got referred for an MRI. I could not find any detail about costs online and mistakenly did not ask the front office lady how that works with the cornell insurance. Anybody who has had an MRI here know? Im going to contact Cornell health but I was also looking for some personal anecdotes.

Hello! I come from a family where mental health isn’t seen as an issue so I wanted to see what others do when they experience something similar. I’ve always had anxiety about everything like ordering food but thought I could just work around it. Since coming to Cornell, it’s affected my exams so much, I feel like throwing up, get dizzy or I can’t read words on my test. Before my exams I try to stop doing anything for 1-2 hours, I’ve tried breathing techniques but every time I think about the thing that makes me anxious it all goes out the window :( it impacts my sleep and it feels like I am in autopilot during the exam and I can’t stop thinking about it for days. I also don’t have the student health insurance so I haven’t tried talking to anyone. Has anyone experienced the same and what has helped?

When the news broke of Jane Doe's civil suit against the university, the fraternity, her sorority, a bar, and the individual fraternity members who are accused of rape and sexual assault, my initial response was that the Greek system should be abolished. Not just fraternities, but sororities, too. Not just at Cornell, but at all institutions.

I still lean toward this point of view, but I am less sure of it now. Partially, this is because I am concerned that my perspective as a white alumnus fails to take into account that of students who are a part of Black fraternities and sororities. I know that I do not know enough about the historically Black and other culturally based historical organizations on campus to feel comfortable waving my hand at all Greek life and saying it must go.

That said, I am wondering whether Cornell and other institutions should investigate another option, which is to end the self-governance of fraternities and sororities. Institutions and the national organizations should agree to cede management responsibilities to universities and colleges. Specifically, I am talking about the placement of RAs or specialized student/graduate live-in coordinators in the houses. The RAs or live-in coordinators would be required to have no relationship with the Greek organizations under their charge.

Universities and colleges are reluctant to take on formal liability for what happens in the houses, which would be the case in such an arrangement, but as the Jane Doe case illustrates at Cornell, that liability already exists.

EDIT: Rather than kneejerk upvotes or downvotes, please contribute opinions.

I pledged a fraternity when I was a Freshman because I was paying tuition out of a personal student loan, and I couldn't afford to rent an apartment in Collegetown. In order to secure a place to live my Sophomore year, I joined a house and moved in there. Cornell has a way of basically forcing huge numbers of its student body into Greek Life and we see the consequences.

The real BEGINNING solution to solving the recent issues is to shut down every building that operates as a frat house. Do not let people live in these buildings. They are traps for hazing, illegal drinking and drug use and sexual assault. Shut them down, move everyone out and build the housing that's needed to support all the students you gladly charge tuition to.

The whole point of university frats is that the university can (at least somewhat) regulate them. Banning parties, entirely, just moves the parties off frat houses to off campus houses. You can’t seriously expect students not to have a single party for the rest of the year. At least when there were frat parties before, there was even a teensy bit of expectation that Cornell was to do something if something went wrong.

-Signed a recent alum with a sibling that is a current Cornell student in a frat who I expect will do even more dumb stuff now that Cornell has zero liability whatsoever sigh

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Or is it easy to carpool to the range?

I'm thinking about dropping ILRST 2100 for PSYCH 2500 to fulfill my stats requirement. I can't find old syllabi for PSYCH 2500, so I don't know what to expect.
If you've taken either one (or had experience w both), how did they compare in workload, exam difficulty, and grading?Thanks!

Free and open to the public. Thursday Oct 15, 7:30pm, WS Hall Browsing Libary

Thomas Gilovich, world-renowned social psychologist and Cornell professor, presents "How To Pursue Happiness"

Presented by Sigma Phi Society for our Tanenbaum Speaker Series. Food and soft drink reception to follow. Free to the public, first come first served.

Event info here, including livestream link: https://posh.vip/f/ee6c3

Prof Gilovich in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/02/style/what-might-have-been.html

Employers do not want surprises, especially like what just happened. That is the ultimate nightmare. Seeing a fraternity association on a resume, especially from Cornell, would give employers a pause, and there are enough candidates available in a soft job market to just move on to the next one. More the reason to stay away from frats. College is an investment after all.

And I don't mean people who are a little quirky or have "a touch of the tism"; I mean people who genuinely have Autism Spectrum Disorder. I feel like I've met a very low number of people who I've clocked as being autistic here. Is everyone else just super high masking? I feel like my only long-term friends have all been autistic. I used to have a very oddly specific "type" when it comes to dating and I've recently realized that my type might just be guys with autism.

Anyways where is everyone hiding. If someone could let me know that would be nice.