Day 6: Cornell all the way

Boy did Cornell knock it out of the park today! Brendan, one of the student guides was waiting for us and immediately swooped the kids into the dining hall and escorted them to their reserved table.

We all felt special immediately. After eating and taking in the awesomeness of Cornell the student guide took us to a reserved room where the Assistant Director for Diversity Outreach presented to the students, Richard Onyejuruwa.

He was thorough and likable, expressing how thankful he was that the students had come all this way to visit. This visit was by far the most organized and well-planned. After going over some major components of Cornell University, Richard followed up by dividing students into groups of three to sit and have more intimate conversations with current Cornell students.

He kept them right on schedule and then divided them into groups of two, before he explained the scavenger hunt competition, that would be their campus tour. They had to choose two captains, a photographer, and name their team before they started their race to the finish. It was a really refreshing way to get the kids to see campus. An hour later we all met up to get the kids luggage and match them up with their host for the rest of the evening. They quickly took them off to their rooms after Richard handed them their typed out itinerary for the evening. We met up with the kids again at 6 p.m. to listen to a presentation from professor Chris Hernandez who is from Fresno and has been presenting to the WILP students for a few years now. He is quite passionate about giving back and supporting students like him.

I can't wait to hear all about the other planned events that Cornell offered our students. They were all giving Cornell's thumbs up last I saw!