Freshman Year

Share with us below your your memories of your Freshman year. For example,

• Where did you live?
• What / where did you eat?
• Who were your memorable professors?
• What were your memorable classes?
• In which sports did you engage either as a spectator or participant?
• Other memories?

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Here are some memories we have already collected about our senior year. Add your own below.

• Typed term papers, no computers. First job was typing papers for others at ten cents a page.
• Learning that stopping at the Roscoe Diner driving up Route 17 was (and still is) a Cornell tradition.
• Reactions to first prelims. “Oh ###” as freshman engineers completed their first physics exam.
• First time going home for Thanksgiving. Using the ride box.

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Some significant events*

• September 7, 1967 – Move in day
• October 2: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of Supreme Court
• October 21, 1967: Vietnam War protests in Washington, D.C.
• January 1968: During finals week in January, the temperature never got above zero. The snow squeaked when we walked on it. When the temperature finally got up to 20, people were walking around with their coats off.
• January 20, 1968: a $150 hike in tuition for Cornell’s endowed colleges on the Ithaca campus was approved Saturday by the University Board of Trustees.
  • The tuition increase will raise to $2,200 the yearly bill for tuition and fees paid by students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, School of Hotel Administration, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, the division of Unclassified Students and all endowed Graduate divisions, except law.
  • Tuition for the Law School will remain at $1,900 and the College of Medicine will maintain its $1,800 tuition rate.
  • Room rents climb to $570 per year for undergraduate women and $474 per year for undergraduate men: and 8% increase.
• January 7, 1967: First-class US postage is raised from 5 cents to 6 cents. US Prime rate is 6%
• April 2, 1968: The film 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres
• April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
• April 11, 1968: U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968
• April 29, 1968: the musical “Hair” opens at the Biltmore Theater in New York
• June 5, 1967: Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan. He dies the next day.
• July 18, 1968: Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

* Events selected from Cornell Sun, Wikipedia, EventsHistory.com… and elsewhere.