After what was probably an undue amount of wavering, I accepted my offer from Cornell! I was not crazy about the weather when I visited the school in mid-February ( ), but apart from that it was such a good experience that I'm pretty sure I will like it there. Now, like everybody else, I just have to sort out housing. I have some friends who got their PhDs from Cornell and they actually said that Maplewood is an okay place to start out, and I think I would rather live in University housing at first just to make the transition a little less problematic. But, I realize it's not a guaranteed thing and so I'm also looking into other options... I'm about to write to my department in case they have additional info that would help.
But yeah, this is just a small and temporary damper on my excitement for the fall. Yay for Cornell.
