The purpose of this article is not belittle any major at Cornell but rather to shed light on the hotel school program, since other majors think that it is the simplest, easiest major at Cornell. 

This article is going to share with those who are unaware and let them know some simple facts about the Cornell hotel school.

People that are in the hotel school or are close friends with Hotelies know how hard we work. Seeing these comments while I spend Friday nights in studying and completing my required coursework for the upcoming week makes me so infuriated.  There are a huge range of classes that we take the hotel school, only 3 of which have to do with food service. Finance, Financial accounting and hospitality quantitative analysis are just a few examples of classes.We take classes in which industry leaders and professionals take time to come speak to our classes, we shake hands with captains of industry and we learn how to become better businessmen and women inside and out.

The skills and tools that we learn in the hotel school are beyond the scope of academics. We are learning how to become business professionals and create new and innovative industry standards. To those who think that Hotelies don’t do any work are truly mistaken. Our classes are just as time consuming and we do just as much work as all the other hard working majors at Cornell. To those who believe that Hotelies do nothing but fold napkins, I challenge you to walk into the Marriott Student Learning Center and see how long you see Hotelies in there from 8 am to 11 pm I guarantee you will lose count.

On top of our rigorous course load, Hotel school students are usually involved in a slew of activities as well one of the most common being a part time job at the Statler. Balancing work, clubs, Greek life and academics are all things that Hotelies do to on a daily basis, as well as many other students on Cornell’s campus. The only thing that could be remotely true about Hotelies is that we have trouble finding other buildings around campus. Is it really our fault that all of our classes are in one building? Essentially the only time we have to leave the building is when we have final examinations and prelims in other buildings. 

The last point that I want to make is definitely the most important. Out of all the slack that the hotel school program gets there is one fact that cannot be disputed. When Hotelies graduate we have some of the highest percentages for being employed in graduation at Cornell, not to mention we also have some of the highest paid salaries right of an undergraduate program.     

Hopefully I have been able to  shed some of the many  stereotypes, dogmas and beliefs that surround hotel school students.