I attended Daniel Schwarz lecture for the Rose Cafe Series for the 2nd time and I found myself yet again wishing I knew all the advice he gave my freshman year or before in college because sometimes, like for myself, it is too late to take up some of the advice he gives. I really wish I had planned out since freshman year a time for me to figure out when to go abroad and schedule my courses better so that I could have done it. I am unable to do so now because I did not plan out my course load properly enough ahead of time and will not be able to take time off of Cornell for study abroad.

I also really want to emphasize that you should take courses for the professors rather than the class. There are classes that I was looking forward to that were completely miserable experiences because going to class felt like torture because the professors were either not a good speaker, very mean, or not helpful when asked for help. There are also classes that I dreaded but loved because the professor was incredible and made it worth it and enjoyable, even if it was hard.

Finally, to a point he made about Greek life not fostering diversity, there are a few Cornell fraternities that are taking great strides to take down the barriers for students of color or low income have the opportunity to join the brotherhood, such as removing the rush process Beta Theta Pi so superficial reasons do not get assessed but rather just personality, and they were pretty successful in having a really diverse pledge class.