<p>do u feel that if you commute to nyu and dont dorm you miss out on a lot of college stuff? is it hard to find friends if your a commuter?</p>
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do u feel that if you commute to nyu and dont dorm you miss out on a lot of college stuff? is it hard to find friends if your a commuter?
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This is a very pertinent question to me so I'll butt in and answer it for you.</p>
<p>The short answer is, yes. It's not necessarily hard to find friends because NYU does have certain commuter programs (most of my friends are commuters themselves), but you miss out on a lot of stuff obviously (like can't hang around with friends at 2am, do fun stuff in dorms). </p>
<p>Also, it's pretty frustrating when there is a gap in your schedule but you cannot just go to your dorm and sleep or whatever. This is one of the reasons I am trying to transfer out of NYU: I've always wanted to experience the American college system and I feel like the residential hall system is central to the experience (most uni students commute in the country I come from).</p>
<p>I highly suggest you dorm at least your frosh year... I know I am kicking myself for not dorming :(.</p>
<p>sorry i left it out,
one thing you just gotta accept about NYU is that no one cares about what school you're in. honestly! steinhard is not dumber or worse than any other school. my friends are in steinhard, and like i said, we take similar classes.
my advertisement, hehhe, was about the fact that the different schools mingle so much that no one has time or care to track down what school you're in, really.
steinhard is a good school, i got nothing against it. one of my profs actually wanted to know how many steinhard ppl were in the class, it was a math class and some of them wanted to teach math or w/e, so he really liked that.
so some profs may actually be curious about steinhard ppl cause they might wanna become teachers themselves.
one of my friends there is doing something on speech, the other one is into music. they are both cool. i dont think they are stupid.! singing rocks!
one other girl is doing something in math, what's wrong with that? it doesnt matter. you're not dumber, you're doing what you wanna do. it's college.
just stop thinking that there's a division btwn schools, i see that not only you but many ppl think that you'll be treated differently. if and when u go to NYU you'll find that your friends will be from all the schools, and you wont care which one's from which or think one's dumber than the other. b/c you're adults and you have different paths and you do what you gotta do and major in whatever you wanna major in. you got into nyu, smarty.</p>
<p>yep! a MINOR, not a major. you can do so, yes. check this out:</p>
<p>"Because of the nature of the Stern School of Business, it is not possible to have a double major. While it may be possible to have a minor within the College of Arts and Science..."
<a href="http://nyu.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/9834033161/m/7321079491/r/7621096591#7621096591%5B/url%5D">http://nyu.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/9834033161/m/7321079491/r/7621096591#7621096591</a></p>
<p>basically, yeah, you can minor in some CAS course if you want, but not double major in it.
best of luck!</p>
<p>hi,
you're already at NYU? that's cool, we should meet up one day, lol.
it's called AUSA: anthropology undergraduate student association.
i'm not a leader of it, just a member. basically, the club's really supportive of anthro students. NO YOU DO NOT have to major in it to go see the movies that they play on fridays or anything else. but you'll find that the info they give out is really for those interested in pursuing an anthro degree, that is: anthro majors/minors. But even if you just think anthro's cool, you're very welcome to join in and enjoy.
if you have nyu email right now, you might wanna subscribe to AUSA. you'll get messages from the club, like from any other club, and basically they tell you where to meet and when. you dont have to go, you're just informed that they'll be meeting. Last discussion was about field school, anthro grad school, etc.
They also organize brown bag lunches--you bring and eat your lunch while sitting down with a Prof. talking about whatever. it's nice cos you get to know the dept. that way.
they have a bunch of activities/meetings/events and info sessions that you can go to. it's fun. no pressure. you get to meet profs and students that share your interest.
the meetings usually take place in the Kimmel center for student life, and like most clubs, AUSA will provide food and refreshments to keep you loyal and happy. hehe. the brown bag lunches will take place right in the department, with the Profs. the movie theater room is in the dept. too.</p>
<p>what else i do: umm, so far, i'm not a leader of anything. oh well.
I work at the Bobst library, so i'm employed.
I'm in the commuter circle, as a member.
anndd, what else? you really got me....I like walks on the beach. lol
okay, i am going to study Africa as my anthro topic, probably southern africa, so i'm doing some stuff on Africa right now. and also, i'm interested in the Soviet union and it's relationship to Southern africa thru education....
so i'm applying for an anthro internship at the museum of Natural history, i hope i get it.
so much about me...</p>
<p>y17k is right.
it's true that commuting is a pain. i always complain how i cant enjoy all that NYU has to offer b/c i gotta go home!! like i cant stay, as y17k said, at 2 am just chilling, i gotta go home on the train, takes me like an hour overall to get there. yeah it sux.
what y17k missed though: when you got gaps btwn classes and you dont have a dorm to go to, well, i got to my job. i work at Bobst Library.
or you can go ahead and go to some club meeting. it's always nice b/c they serve food..hehe. you'll see at nyu, everyone for some reason is mad hungry....and when clubs meet, ppl go there just to eat...pizza, or w/e.
so that's what you do w/your free time. work, meetings, study,etc.
it's difficult being a commuter, i do have friends tho!! both who commute and who do not. it's just that if i would have dormed, i'd get to hang out with the roomates, you know. parties and the fun stuff.
also, commuting is ugly b/c you have a double life. when i get home, i gotta do what my family expects me to do....clean up, dishes, laundry, all that family stuff. when you dorm you got a meal plan, you clean up your tiny area and you still gotta do laundry but it's just different at home. it's more obligations. </p>
<p>NYU does have a commuter circle, a commuter lounge and commuter assistants. cool things. the commuter circle has free lunch every tuesday, the commuter lounge is obviously a special place for commuters to chill, but everyone's there, ppl who "commute" from their dorms,hehe.
the commuter assistants, or CAs are mad cool! they have office hours and once again, NYU's is really into food, the CAs organize dinners, all that yummy stuff to make a commuter feel welcomed and stick to the campus for a little longer instead of going back home. they also raffle metrocards, which is super handy for commuters. and movie tickets too. basically, they charm you into their community. so yes, the point: you do feel alienated from NYU cos you dont live there, and miss all the cool dorm stuff, but NYU tries to make up for it somehow, so you're not a total loser.</p>
<p>do commuters hang oot at dorms with their friends who have dorms and crash there? are u also invited to dorm parties?</p>
<p>hi,
yes, i have friends who dorm and i can visit them in their dorms.
in fact, they can keep me there for 3 days straight....
personally, i was never invited to a dorm party, but you sure can be invited.
if your friends dorm and they are throwing a party on some floor, they can sign you in at the lobby, the security guard will make you do so.
after that, you just go up w/your buddy and do whatever you wanna do.</p>
<p>if you want a fake dorm: JUST FOR FUN: once upon a time, there was a Bobst boy...that's what he was called b/c he lived in the lower levels (where computers and study rooms are) of the Bobst library...
his parents stopped funding him cos he came out and said he's gay. I'm saying this cos, the lower levels of the Library are open 24/7, so you can be there all you want....they do have couches and ppl sleep there.
they also sleep at the Kimmel center for student life, i think it's open too.
you can take a shower at the gym in the morning...hahha!</p>
<p>haha thats funny..</p>
<p>yeah, it's sadly funny.
Latest rumor has it that he's been given an RA position. I hope so.</p>
<p>haha really!? :) good for him</p>
<p>wat year are u allowed to be an RA? wat are the qualifications?</p>
<p>can you show us an assignment that you have done in one of your classes? i want to guage the difficulty...please also include how long you were given or if anything in class helped you with the assignment</p>
<p>hi,
R.A positions are held by juniors/seniors/and grads w/a min. of 2.75 GPA
must be in good academic standing, registered, paid the tuition bill..all that.
must have plenty of leadership skills, commitment to student life on campus.
you'll have interviews to go through, it's highly competitive, i hear.
it's a one year commitment. but you get compansated w/ a free dorm and a meal plan....which is nice. </p>
<p>Have you considered an UOL position? it's just for the summer, and you get paid $1500 if you're in CAS, i dont know about other schools, but you get paid something.</p>
<p>Breath, what is CAS econ like in comparison with Stern econ. Do they generally get the same job opportunities, or does Stern always win? Thanks.</p>
<p>do any of your friends have cars?</p>
<p>I absolutely have to take my car and I don't know what to do :(</p>
<p>haha breathfire i go to those commuter lunches too
it's pretty easy to go crash at a friend's dorm, and I've been to a couple of dorm parties. But being a commuter, I haven't been invited to nearly as many parties as I would've liked</p>
<p>And the library is da place to crash after a night's drinking in NYC and you are too wasted to go back home... Once I slept there till like 12:30pm next morning and people were giving me dirty looks when I woke up (my breath reeked of alcohol, and I mumble during my sleep).</p>
<p>Alas, this will be gone next year when I transfer
As for cars, I highly suggest that you do not take your car to school. NYC is ridiculously crowded in the mornings, and parking spaces are expensive.</p>
<p>Hi, do you know of any sophmores who spent their freshman year in florence and if they liked it or not?</p>
<p>lol Im sorry but seeing as you're from CA.. you wouldn't understand. You don't need a car in NYC.</p>
<p>hi,
sorry for the holdup...but i had a couple of h.ws to take care of actually.
I didnt have such hard assigments, some were just long. FOR EXAMPLE:
for my Prose Writing course, which if you are in CAS and not in HEOP will not have to take b/c you'll take Writing the essay, but w/e, in that class I had to write a research paper that's 10-12 pgs minimum, using 15-20 sources minimum....i dont know if you think it's a pain or not, but it was for me b/c there is plenty of other h.w that needs to be covered.
the paper was on any topic you wont, but my prof didnt wanna get anythin on abortion/stem cell/anorexia b/c it's so popular and simple to do. so, he wanted something different...my paper was on McDonaldization...how McDonald's in other countries, using Japan as my example, is like a cultural symbol representing Americana as seen by Japapese.....how it could lead to cultural homogeneity, and cultural imperialism..yada yada. my paper was 14 and a half pgs long.
well, firstly: every prof is different...some dont even give midterms or finals and just assign papers. for example, for my African lit class: we need to read 6 novels and for each write an essay on w/e topic we want. basically choose a theme. for example: for Things fall apart, i chose to compare it w/another Achebe novel. b/c it was for two books, the paper was 2000 words long...what is that, 7 pgs? the prof gives you a syllubus from day one of class, it has relative due dates for the assignments, so you know from the beginning that you have paper XYZ due on March 3rd, for example. so you have that much time to think about it/write it. however, you'll have plenty of other assignments from other classes, so you might not get to paper XYZ until February 28th, say. We all learn the word "procrastination" in college, unfortunately...we just dont do things until we have one minute left. but you are made aware when things are due from the start, so if you are good and smart you'll write your essays early enough to be able to rewrite them/edit them. which brings me to the "where do you get help" topic:
first, some profs are willing to read your first draft...that's the best thing there is b/c then you'll know what they're looking for...some don't do that.
mine does not. so, you can have your paper checked at the writing center or whatever it is called...you can set up an appointment with someone who is supposedly good at writing and they can go over your paper for grammar and content. then, there is the tutoring place, college learning center....ppl who'll tutor you are students who got nothing less than A- in a class, you can show them your paper and they'll help you out. but asking the prof is the best thing to do.
if your class has a teaching assistant, my African lit class does not b/c it's so small, then you should ask your TA to look it over for you, once again, some will read the drafts and some won't, but they will always help you out, like with content and form.
OTHER CLASSES:
for science and math: it's hard to illustrate, i mean for math, unless you wanna major in it, you take a math course, do your math h.w....and that's about it. i hate it, so i'm very bad at that.
for my human evolution class, which counts as natural science II req., its basically reading the textbook, say two whole chapters per week, maybe some additional articles, the chapters may be 25 pgs long. then there is the lab component...you gotta go to lab and then write up your results/answers to questions, which is a pain.
for foreing lang: i dont have to take it b/c i was exempted...but i hear it depends on what level you're on, if you're a beginner maybe it's like h.s work from the textbooks, like fill in the blank questions...adv. courses may require you to write essay, in say, Spanish.
for MAP courses, the general req. classes, the workload differs from prof to prof...some may assign essays, some not.
usually its just midterm and final. but for some, it that plus two or so essays.
my two essays for Conversations of the West, a MAP course, are relatively easy...we read a text, say something by Plato or Dante or Sophocles's trilogy, and then we are assigned questions: like, discuss seeing and not seeing/dramatic irony in Oedipus the Kings...or talk about civil vs. divine law in Antigone....but that's pretty easy... our first paper had to be about 750 words long, it's like 3 pgs. easy.
but it really depends on the prof and on the class.....and how much other work you gotta do. nothing is really difficult, unless you major in rocket science, but it's just that...imagine...you got 3 papers due in the next two weeks, one has to be 10 pgs, another 3, another 5 or 6...and you gotta do some research, plenty of reading...its not that it's hard, its just time consuming and exhausting.
i hope this helped......</p>