<p>grades dont count...gym is free, both of them Coles and Palladium...Palladium is the bigger one. they have nice showers there...
i never took classes, but i hear they are nice...HOWEVER, these you DO have to pay for. otherwise, the facilities are free....</p>
<p>not a stupid question at all....i wondered myself what i should wear for college. i ended up wearing the same clothes as in h.s ...jeans, jeans, jeans, shirts....you'll see ppl wearing "costumes", trust me....nyu is in the village so it tends to get crazy sometimes....during the fall/spring i mean. just wear whatever, no need to wear the suit thing. i am currently at work, Bobst library, wearing jeans, black shoes cos my sneakers got dirty, a t-shirt and a jacket....my co worker is dressed the same way.</p>
<p>Hi,
question about the work study!!!
since it doesnt say on or off campus in my package, can I work off campus in a job I found personally and pay the same amount?</p>
<p>hi sorry for the delay, i'm so bad with this damn internet connection.
basically, yes--you can work off campus and get the same amount of "work study" money. HOWEVER, the job that is off campus must be a "work study" job. that means you gotta settle it with the employer that you have work study money available as part of your fin aid package and you want for him or her to apply your pay to that. </p>
<p>best,
breathfire.</p>
<p>question: how many language classes can one take in CAS? Is there a specific limit of one, or is it possible to take two, even if your schedule might be tight? </p>
<p>I'm not a language major, by the way. I just like languages.</p>
<p>you can take as many as you want or rather as many as you can handle or even more...as many as you can fit into your already very busy schedule...
usually, language courses meet for 3 days a week. In order to "fully" complete a language course you'll have to go thru elementary I, II, intermediate I, II and then advanced....unless you scored high on some lang. SAT II exam and was placed in the advanced classes from the start or something like that. also, there might be intensive elementary courses available, which means that the class will run M-F and basically combine elementary leven I and II into one semester cos otherwise you take each level in different semesters (i.e: elementary I during the Fall, elementary II during the spring...). i mean, its up to you judgment...i'd say complete, for ex., Swahili first and then if you're into language start learning, say, Portuguese...not Swahili and Port. at the same time....it just wont fit into your academic calender. you'll have MAP courses that will come with labs and recitations, you'll be full. the language classes are demanding, i hear.
as for myself, i scored high on russian profiency exam that i took during orientation, so i was exempted from the requirement. if you wanna speed up the process, do the same thing so that you'll automatically be able to go to, say, Adv. spanish, that way, you'll finish Spanish faster and can move on to some other language...unless, of course, you wanna start from scratch or didn't learn much in h.s....just like me!!! :-)</p>
<p>hope this helps,
breathfire.</p>
<p>Hi breathfire,</p>
<p>I am an incoming freshman currently in the heop summer program. So far, my experience at NYU has been enjoyable although i find that some aspects of it have been similar to high school. I do have several questions that i hope you can answer.</p>
<p>1) From the summer orientation to my classes in the summer program, I have made some friends that I'm hoping that i can keep in the fall. What do you find is the best way to do this since come the fall, all of the regular students will also arrive at NYU? Did you register for the same classes as the friends that you met during the orientation?</p>
<p>2) Was it harder to make friends in the fall with all the regular students vs heop and cstep since they dorm and are richer? Are most of your friends the one's that you met during the summer program/orientation (heop and cstep)?</p>
<p>3) What are the biggest differences between attending NYU during the summer like i do now and during the fall? What are the biggest negatives about having the full student body at NYU compared to just the heop students? I definetely feel that the atmosphere during the summer at NYU is a lot more laid back and relaxed.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Welcome to NYU--it's both fun and suicidal, hehe. Don't mean to scare you...</p>
<p>1)well, in my situation, my roomate from orientation was a c-step student so we also spent the summer at NYU and now are pretty cool friends. all my other orientation buddies, who are not in the heop/c-step sector, are less visible during the regular school year. but this could be that we didn't really bond to begin with, so I didn't care to keep much contact. But, if you made really awesome friends during the orientation, i think the best way to keep seeing them is to take their number and email, of course, and enlist them onto your facebook (facebook.com, as you most likely know). plus, since you are all freshmen chances are you might end up taking similar MAP courses. try joing the same clubs or participating in the same residential activities if you are dorming...i commute so it's a bit hard for me to talk about that. one thing for sure, if you really bonded during orientation i am sure you can keep in touch afterwards. there are many activities going on at NYU throughout the year so you can go as a group. If you're dorming you'll have fewer problems meeting ppl.
Heop students you'll see more of, for you'll take heop classes with them in the freshman year. my very good friend in college is a heop student cos we both live in bkly and commute and had some summer classes together, but no classes during the fall/spring...but we still saw each other--esp. during the Freshman Seminar. you'll see the heops and c-steps....you'll see them plenty....hehehe. if they are commuters chances are they'll spend their free time chilling in the commuter lounge in kimmel....join them.
an oh yeah, we didn't register for the same classes cos registration is such a hectic process and everybody's schedule is different...but like i said, maybe there is a chance that you'll end up in a MAP class together, cos they are bigger classes and generally freshmen/sophmores take them...you might have different recitations though, but it's possible, yes.
2)now that i think of it my good friends are heop/cstep...but actually, one is in heop and the other one is 'mainstream'--the two i like to hang out with most. one of them is the one i commute with and the other one is in my major's dept. so we are very cool with each other....
you have to stop paying attention to certain racial/socio-economic issues i guess. i do not advice sticking to 'your own' at NYU. it might not be that fun...i am a real diverse person and i like the people i am with b/c they are good ppl. so it wasn't hard for me to meet folks during the regular school year. just say hi to the person next to you or behind you....i mean, they might turn out as *******s but you can give it a try. yeah, some are rich snobs, no doubt, but i wouldn't stereotype. the friend in my major dept. is a white girl with light hair, i could have easily assumed she's preppy rich, but she's an avg. girl from Massachusetts...if i spelled that right, lol. even if you do meet someone rich, i guess as long as they are not nasty about it they might still be cool ppl. trust me, it'll work out in the fall/spring. there are other ppl out there just like you who have the very same questions on their minds...and they might not be in heop/c-step. generally, ppl are nice. ppl i chill with anyway...OH, TRY STUDY GROUPS--if you feel you can talk to some ppl in some class then try to form a study group..chances are if you can at least feel comfortable with the one person sitting next to you, he or she will know somebody else to include in the study group and now you'll be friends with more ppl--that's how it worked out in my major class.....
3)you're right, the atmosphere is more relaxed....first of all, when all the nyu ppl get here in the fall, it'll be so stinky and crowded! you just watch....the first shock that i had was the never ending lines to the elevators! you don't see those during the summer, but once you get here in the fall, you gotta stand in a long long long line for the elevators!!!! at least in the silver center...the library is crowded as well, books dissapear faster, so hurry up with any research plans.
the heop profs. might be kinder than regular NYU profs....extending deadlines, getting personal,etc....regular NYU profs. won't know you. huge lecture halls and you're just a molecule in their perception. so--sit in the front row, center. go to office hours...they get nicer to you if they know you, trust me--grades may go up....you kinda gotta feel the culture of the class--does the prof care if he or she knows you or not? do you really need their attention? cos if you're getting As w/o attending office hours, then you can allow yourself to sit out on that...but still, there'll be time for recommendations and all that, so PLEASE do get to know your professors. I STRONGLY advice that if you know your major, go straight to your dept. and start talking to profs, don't worry, they are lonely and would love a chat. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH HELP I GOT BY KNOCKING ON A COUPLE OF DOORS!
so, with heop, everybody knows you, but once the fall/spring semesters starts, you're on your own and have to make SURE they know you....
papers, papers, papers....during the summer, since heop/c-step is one dept. they might coordinate all their work so that it's nice and smooth. i.e: each prof knows what the other prof is doing via meetings/conferences, etc...(i don't know this as a fact, but i think that there's a chance that heop/c-step classes are coordinated, so if you have a huge prose writing paper due you just might convince your con west prof to change the due date of their paper and they might be more understanding cos they're heop/c-step pfofs), but otherwise, the regular profs at nyu are from different depts and don't care about what some other prof is doing in some other dept....so you can end up with two huge papers on the same day or two big tests on the same day or whatever. during the summer, they might be just a bit easy on you.
so, overall, the nasty part is that it's very hectic during the fall/spring and you gotta do everything by yourself....you might not have your summer buddies with you, so you need to go to your class by yourself, take notes by yourself, etc, etc.....
i wish you the best of luck!!!
breathfire</p>
<p>this was helpful, even to a non heop student. :)</p>
<p>ya, that answered alotta questions i hadnt even thought of</p>