As parents flooded campus and “I’ll miss you”s floated through residence hall stairwells, some first-year students fled campus as soon as President Martha E. Pollack’s Friday email reached their inboxes. Residence halls are emptying, and other first-years are packing up to leave Cornell in the upcoming days. “My world has flipped upside down,” said Ayesha Chowdhury ’23, helping a friend pack up her car outside of Jameson Hall. Melancon managed to rebook his flight home to California, and waited for a car to the Ithaca airport on Saturday afternoon. “I think it’s really unfortunate, but that’s how it is sometimes.”Sabrina Martin ’23 joins Melancon on a winding journey back to California.

Source: Daily Sun March 15, 2020 00:57 UTC