<p>Grace22- How is 3rdN (social life, rooms, food, etc.)?</p>
<p>I never made friends through Facebook. Ever. </p>
<p>Then again, perhaps I am of the old guard, obsolete, doomed never to understand you kids and your crazy "social networks". </p>
<p>I've always found that you'll make friends with people in your major/classes, people who live near you (maybe, this is less likely after freshman year), and people who are in the same clubs. In fact, I met one of my best friends from college in my orientation group freshman year - turned out she lived one floor below me, and was in a bunch of my classes & clubs.</p>
<p>welcome week will help to ease the transition.</p>
<p>P.S. Grace22, I dont know what Rubin you are familiar with but the dining hall below my low-cost is nasty. The Grilled cheese sandwich is the most popular dish!</p>
<p>Hey, Rubin has pretty awesome desserts. I kind of lived on those freshman year! Mm, coconut cream pie~</p>
<p>I live in Third North and I am having an amazing experience with it. I think, however, that the whole social thing just depends on the people living on your floor and your RA. </p>
<p>I am fortunate enough to have an amazing RA - fun, exciting, I'll-never-write-you-up-unless-you-break-the-wall, this-is-your-freshman-year-of-college-live-it-up type. </p>
<p>His attitude gave way to a really cohesive, friendly atmosphere on the floor. Granted, everyone is really different and you won't "click" with everyone, but I probably hung out, at one point or another, with 35/40 people from my floor. We visit each other in each other's suites, eat together, go out together, drink together, etc. The combinations of people may be a little different at times, but we are a very tight bunch overall. </p>
<p>Also, I CANNOT IMAGINE not having a common room. We spend a significant amount of time in the common rooms. </p>
<p>The courtyard is of no use to people who don't smoke. </p>
<p>The dining hall is very homey, although the food selection is not the most amazing in the world. </p>
<p>Anyway, I really recommend Third North and I can't believe some peole think apt. style is antisocial.</p>
<p>Washington Square Park is closed for construction so it's irrelevant as a hangout anymore. The city wants to move the fountain literally 5 feet so it'll line up with the arch. Talk about a waste of money.</p>
<p>what Grace22 said.</p>
<p>and it's not particularly cliquey but after welcome week and definitely by the end of freshman year, people tend to form friendship groups and mostly stick to them. with Tisch it's slightly different in that you are constantly meeting new people through projects and stuff, although it can also be more cliquey.</p>
<p>I live in Uhall right now, and it really isn't that bad. Obviously it's going to be somewhat less social because of the fact that it is apartment style, as the above posters said. However, it really depends on your floor, in my opinion. How "social" the dorm is varies year by year, but I can say that I know a lot of people in Uhall.</p>
<p>Oh and yeah, it's very clean. No bugs, etc. though our bathtub wouldn't drain correctly, but that has since been fixed.</p>
<p>ohhhradio,</p>
<p>So do ppl who live in UHall often cook by themselves?or which dining hall do you go?
Also,how do you feel about Union Square area?(ex.convenience)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>well Im looking at hayden.
But my dean of students who went to NYU and wrote me a rec. said to go to Rubin.
I told him I was considering Hayden, he withheld some of his comments and just resolved to say "Its a nice place to visit, but I wouldnt want to live there".</p>
<p>That gave me the feeling that I would want to live there haha.</p>
<p>i have a close friend who goes to NYU and hayden is her least favorite dorm. she said, "it's nice to visit but you don't want to live there. the facilities are gross." just something to think about.</p>
<p>cjenny- if you're at uhall you don't have to cook. there is a dining hall at palladium which is the building RIGHT NEXT DOOR. also there is a new "cafe" that serves food within uhall.</p>
<p>I'm looking at dorms now (got in ED) and I'm leaning towards Hayden (which seems to be the basic trend)... I'm wondering, though, what's the best kind of room Hayden has? I've seen mention of the triple suites (3 rooms, one person each), standard doubles (1 room, 2 people), double suites (2 rooms, 2 people each), LCT (1 room, 3 people), and quint suites (2 rooms, 2 people in one, 3 people in the other).... do any of the suites have common rooms? Or are the suites slightly too antisocial/ not worth it? Also, I saw something about 2 stalls in the triple suite bathrooms???? I don't know, I guess I'd just like to know what all the possibilities are that I could get stuck with if I do get into Hayden, and which kind of room to request (if I can even do that).</p>
<p>thanks!!</p>
<p>I saw a room in Hayden when I when to Open House in October. I wasn't impressed at all with the dorm room I saw. I honestly though it was a but skuzzy. Although it was a low cost triple, so I don't know about everything else. I don't understand why they would show you a low cost triple at open house as opposed to a nicer room.</p>
<p>Maybe you should consider Goddard. I didn't really like the lobby and the hallways that much, but the room that they showed us was really nice. And it's right next to Starbucks.</p>
<p>I believe U-Hall is not going to be a freshman dorm next year</p>
<p>..and btw, Washington Square Park is NOT closed as a previous poster stated. Sections of it are under construction, but the park is open and being used. There have been various street fairs and markets by the park all fall.</p>
<p>I crossed goddard off my list... i'm not quite sure why, though, so i'll look back into it, thanks!</p>
<p>I heard the UHall rumor turned out to be false, and that it will be a freshman dorm next year again... idk, though</p>
<p>I was given the information about U-Hall at a Freshman Parent's seminar at NYU given by the Department of Housing, residential services this fall. It was a meeting for parents to discuss housing options for sophomore's next year. I guess housing could have re-thought the change, but it was certainly not a "rumor" given its source.</p>
<p>uhalls not listed in the packet they sent us...</p>