Gorgeous Gorges and a lot more... - Ithaca, NY

Central Campus

Cornell University

So well, my first semester at Cornell was too busy to write any blog posts, but now that I am back to being as bored as ever, here goes another post on my travels. Ithaca is a small, beautiful town in central New York where Cornell is located. The campus and the students constitute most of the life of the town. Cayuga Lake sits at one end of the town which is flanked by the Cornell and Ithaca College campuses on two other ends. From a Cornell student's perspective, Ithaca contains just three things, Collegetown where everyone gets drunk at frat annexes and buys tickets to NYC and receives haircuts; Downtown/Commons, which looks like the city center of a cute, Mediterranean village, where students go to buy more important things; and lastly Ithaca Mall where students go to buy almost anything they could possibly think of from movie tickets and snow boots to Halloween costumes.

Sibley Hall, Arts Quad

Uris Library

West Campus, Libe Slope

Beebe Dam

The most interesting part of the town is, obviously, the Cornell campus. The campus is 750 acres in area and was voted one of America's ten most beautiful campuses. There are two gorges on campus, the first one lies near Collegetown and West Campus while the main gorge separates Central campus from North campus. The gorges are topped by beautiful bridges and the Beebe dam creates a lake on the main gorge that freezes over the winter. The buildings themselves are beautiful to say the least, and only pictures can convey the beauty of the five quads that the campus has, which is why I am going to stop typing in prosaic descriptions of Cornell's beautiful campus and fill the rest of the post with pictures. =)  (I hope you realize why I love Cornell after seeing the pictures!)

Johnson Graduate School

Barnes Hall