What happens when you ask 1,084 new graduate and professional students to write a note of appreciation to someone who “mentored, advised, supported, nurtured, loved or fed them” on their journey to graduate school? And you provide an incentive of free Cornell postcards and free postage? 

See for yourself!  We received and mailed 277 postcards all over the world, to 23 states in the U.S. and to 27 countries internationally. The largest numbers of postcards went to California, New York and Texas (and one each to Alabama, Delaware Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Vermont and Wisconsin). India (58) and China (31) were the countries receiving the most postcards, followed by Canada, Germany, Ghana, Singapore, Canada, Italy, Brazil, the UK, Spain, Taiwan, Colombia, France, Malaysia, Pakistan, Belgium, Bangladesh and one card each to Ecuador, Hungary, Israel, Kosovo, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, and the UAE. (New students had another opportunity to send postcards to friends and family at Friday’s New Student Mix-and-Mingle at the BRB prior to the first TGIF of the semester.)