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Hi I'm Peter Fiduccia a second year MPA
student here at Cornell. I remember what

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it's like being in your shoes a graduate
school applicant trying to decide on

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which program and university to attend.
It's a big decision and it's a tough

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choice to make without first visiting. I
invite you then to join me and some of

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my friends as we take you on a tour of
CIPA Cornell University and the greater

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Ithaca New York area

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We'll start with Caldwell Hall
this is home base for the Cornell

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Institute for Public Affairs or CIPA as
we call it. The CIPA MPA degree is

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interdisciplinary. You'll start with your
foundation coursework taught by CIPA

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core faculty. As you move out into your
concentration however, you'll get

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opportunities to take courses from
faculties and departments across the university.

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Cornell University is
comprised of fourteen different colleges

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and schools. CIPA is housed within the College of

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Human Ecology and the Martha Van
Rensselaer complex or MVR as we call it.

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MVR is adjacent to Caldwell Hall on the
Ag quad. The mission of this College is

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to improve lives by exploring and
shaping human connections to the natural

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social and built environments. You can
see how the study of public policy fits

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well into this colleges mission. A number
of CIPA's foundation courses are taught

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in MVR. Many of these classrooms have
been recently renovated and includes

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state-of-the-art learning and
instructional technology

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CIPA's Center for public engagement is
also located in MVR our students meet

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here to work on capstone and public
service engagement projects and to meet

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with faculty. Now that you've seen CIPA's
offices and classrooms I'm going to have

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Wenrui tell you a little bit more about
the libraries. Just a short walk from

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CIPA is Mann library where I am standing.
It serves a second home of our CIPA

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students it offers cubicles for individual studies as well

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as private rooms for group work. Mandible's Cafe is conveniently located in the lobby.

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So when you're hungry you can't get your
food here or get a cup of coffee when

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you need a pick-me-up.
So next my friends Sae will give an

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overview for the bookstore and the
campus.

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Since our CIPA course work is
interdisciplinary our classes are held

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in a variety of locations around the
university. This means that you will have

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the opportunity to fully enjoy this
beautiful campus. One place you're likely

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to visit is the Cornell Store. It stocks
or course books and school supplies.

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The store offers a wide variety of
Cornell gear too - from PJs to sweatshirts to

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water bottles and even the hat. The
Cornell Store also hosts the cafe and a

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mini-mart where you can pick up your
essential items that you may need when

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you're on campus.

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Now you know about the Cornell Store. My friend Ali is going to talk about

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housing. (You're all set, have a good day. Thank you).

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One of the big questions that incoming students have is where they should live in Ithaca the

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university offers limited graduate housing you will find that only about 20% of CIPA students live on

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campus with the other 80% live in
private apartments in Ithaca or

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surrounding area. I came from Turkey with my family. I opted to take advantage of

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the opportunity to live here at Hasbrouck
it has more than 300 apartments and 700

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residents 84% of the the residents are
international representing more than 57

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countries in the world. It has a very
family-friendly environment it has an

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active community center and five
playgrounds for children.

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Sarah will now give you a brief tour of
the city of Ithaca. The downtown part of

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Ithaca is called the Commons. It's just a
mile down from Cornell campus there's

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lots of shops restaurants there's a
hotel a post office and City Hall is

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just around. The corner many CIPAs live
just a few blocks from here from here I

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live a couple blocks away in South Hill
but there's also Fall Creek right behind

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me that's lots of families PhD students
very quiet right here on the Commons

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there are apartment buildings above most
of the stores so you can be right next

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to the action
most CIPAs get up to campus by taking

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the bus. The bus stops right here at the
Seneca Street Station every 10 minutes

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and there's lots of other options too
right around the corner at Green Street

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Station and you can get up to campus like 10-15

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minutes they stop there's multiple stops up on

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campus it's a really easy way to get
there

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some CIPAs do choose to drive but
parking on campus can be a bit little

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expensive sometimes and you don't have
to worry about your bus pass in the

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first year because it's included
the cost of the program and then in your

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second year Tcat offers a lot of very
affordable options for weekly monthly

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and daily passes. Could it get any better
than studying public policy at a

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world-class university while living in a
vibrant socially conscious city? we don't

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think so. Start your application today. By
now I hope you have a good idea of what

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life can be like at CIPA at Cornell
University in general and for us

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graduate students in public affairs
whether it's studying in one of the

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university's many libraries. Enjoying the
beautiful scenery of upstate New York or

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hanging out here with friends at the Big
Red Barn there's opportunity and

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learning around every corner. Thank you
for joining us today

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and I hope to be seeing you soon.

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