Cornell Chemistry Peer Advisors

If you are new to Cornell, welcome! This semester is sure to be different from any other. Starting your Cornell journey and exploring chemistry classes while managing pandemic-related stresses and challenges is no doubt daunting. Please know that CPA, your professors, your peers, and others around campus are here to support you in any way […]

I transferred to Cornell my sophomore year. Since then, I’ve learned a lot. As a transfer student, things are difficult at times. You’re coming into a large university where classmates have mostly settled in, made friends, and acclimated to the rigors of a Cornell curriculum. Even so, it’s definitely possible to maximize your potential and […]

Going into senior year, I was burnt out and pretty jaded. I was relatively sure I was headed towards grad school, but the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I was with the thought of signing up five years of my life to a future I wasn’t even sure I wanted. During my […]

During my sophomore year, when I was starting to think about how to spend my next summer, my PI forwarded me an email for a summer program I had never even heard about before. It consisted of an application to spend 10 weeks in one of two sites to learn about the basics of nuclear […]

This summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Merck’s Discovery Process Chemistry group in Boston. Although this wasn’t the lab-based experience I had imagined, my remote internship was an incredibly rewarding opportunity for learning and growth. Not only did the organizers ensure that us interns had our own projects, but they also took […]

After accepting a research internship at Bayer early this year, I was certainly fearful that my position would be cancelled by the time April rolled around. Much to my surprise, though, I was told that I would be moving to Missouri for the summer and working in the lab. While my summer certainly had its […]

During the fall semester of senior year, I actually ended up taking no classes in the chemistry department. I enjoyed many of my chemistry core classes in sophomore and junior year and wanted to use them as a basis for taking a couple of upper-level courses in the Materials Science and Engineering department. I chose […]