Comments on: If You’re Not a Cornellian You Shouldn’t Sport Cornell Gear

By: CU'09

CU'09 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:41:59 +0000

I am pretty sure I spent a semester living on West Campus with the real-life Andy, therefore I am unable to laugh at his persona and instead recall the Spring 2007 semester where I slept on a friend’s futon in an attempt to save my sanity while avoiding one of the most socially inept, pompus individuals I have ever met. That being said, I always have to smile when I see anything CU related, I somehow love and miss the ol’ tundra.

By the way, Cornellian, please let me revisit a portion of your comment…

“Plus, people that know a lot about top schools know Cornell is the best ivy for engineering and a lot of specialty stuff but is brought down by the hotel, human ecology, ILR, and agricultural schools is overall prestige (even though they’re good at what they do).”

I agree the Engineering school is nothing to scoff at, but please get over your superiority complex and stop trying to place yourselves at the top of the CU mountain. You reference “specialty stuff” but then deride specialty schools such as the Hotel School (the top Undergrad degree in its field) and the ILR School (again, the top degree in its field and a school that houses one of your required courses). Just call up Miss Coulter now and the two of you can talk at length (if engineering students could actually do that…) about how much better than the rest of the campus you actually are.

/vent

By: CayugaWaiter

CayugaWaiter — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:24:41 +0000

The writers went to “better” ivys – head writers BJ Novak and Mindy Kaling went to Harvard and Dartmouth. The Cornell references are really a jab at those lower Ivy kids who won’t shut up about how they went Ivy.

By: Cornellian

Cornellian — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:31:36 +0000

I think that the Cornell references are still cool. Plus, people that know a lot about top schools know Cornell is the best ivy for engineering and a lot of specialty stuff but is brought down by the hotel, human ecology, ILR, and agricultural schools is overall prestige (even though they’re good at what they do). After all, everyone knows MIT is #1 in anything related to math/science/engineering anyway and they’re not even ivy.

By: d91

d91 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:39:59 +0000

I love the Cornell references. They’re jokey enough to be funny, but not offensive in the least. When it rains 3 seasons out of 4, and snows the other, and we still choose to spend four years in Ithaca, I think we have pretty good senses of humor.

By: ViolentQuaker

ViolentQuaker — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:16:38 +0000

Times like this I prefer the lukewarm comfort of being too nationally unknown to be effectively lampooned

By: Max

Max — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:13:43 +0000

i go to cornell and even though i know it’s making fun of us, i get a kick out of it. i don’t mind being the butt of the joke sometimes…and in all seriousness, at least i didn’t go to brown (just kidding)

By: Sung

Sung — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:08:14 +0000

Not to nitpick or anything, but Dwight wouldn’t have needed an interview since he wasn’t applying to be a hotelie or an architect. As someone who’s worked for CAAAN for many years, I can fully attest to the fact that these are just contacts, not interviews, and they are completely optional by the applicant.

Yeah, I know, it’s a TV show…

By: d '05

d '05 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:35:04 +0000

dartmouth gets a lot of fictional character love when they want to portray someone as smart but not lame – ie they hang out. another one: ’she’s all that’ – the dad wants freddie to go to dartmouth. and gossip girl season 1!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:22:38 +0000

@ Goldie:
Yeah, because all Wal-Mart greeters graduate from top 20 schools. You’re fucking awesome, man.

By: D'04

D'04 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:11:57 +0000

Mindy Kaling, writer/actress of The Office, is a Dartmouth ‘01. That’s why we often get the positive mentions.