On Saturday afternoon, I volunteered to conduct informational interviews with prospective Cornell students for the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network (CAAAN). Part of the purpose is to recruit good students and part of it is to report back to the admissions office about how our meetings went. I spoke with three applicants about what they were interested in studying and answered their questions about Cornell. All three of them were early decision candidates, but I only felt that one of them should be offered admission. The official party line regarding the reports is that they do not affect the students' admission offers, but they also say that the reports are extremely "helpful," so I suspect that they actually do count in the admission committee's decision to offer an applicant admission or not. Regardless, I just didn't tell the students I spoke with that I was even writing a report so that they wouldn't get worked up about it.
Saturday night, we met Muir's friend Hannah (from PiB), Hannah's sister Rachel, and Rachel's boyfriend for pizza in Hou Hai. Hou Hai is a lake near the center of Beijing surrounded by bars and restaurants nestled in hu tongs. There are cute bridges crossing the water, lights and paper lanters, alleyways to walk through, music blaring from store fronts, and delicious smells wafting in the air. It's pretty cute, and theme-parkesque.
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| Definitely hat and scarf weather |
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| View of Hou Hai |
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At Hutong Pizza with Jan, Rachel, Muir, and Hannah.
Everyone looks like they've had laser vision correction except for me! |
It's a gathering of Jawas.
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