<p>If im gonna be doing MMSS, econ, and stuff like financial institutions, should I stay in north campus or south campus (where are my classes closer to)?</p>
<p>Btw, im WCAS.</p>
<p>Hey guys. Not to steal Purposeful's thunder--he's a great poster--but I'll also field questions for people who want a different perspective.</p>
<p>I graduated in '05 as a Communication major (Media & Politics concentration) with a Chinese Language and Culture minor. I'm in graduate school now and figured I'd stop by to feed my nostalgia for NU. I was very active in student government, wrote for the Daily Northwestern, was in a fraternity for a year, lived in the dorms, lived off campus, was big into the NU social scene, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Feel free to ask away.</p>
<p>tidal- many of the mmss/econ people i know are in ayers cci, which is north campus. there are a good amount of econ classes held on south campus, but for math-based classes a lot of the time you'll be on north campus, so you'll be going to both sides of campus either way.</p>
<p>and lion, you're not stealing my thunder at all ;) I just remembered going here and finding out a lot about dorms and getting advice that really helped... (one of the things i remembered the most was one person saying, "Participate in as much as you can during New Student Week and get OUTSIDE of your own dorm; you'll have all year to get to know them!"--that helped immensely when i found out that I didn't click that well with the people on my floor, and so I had a good friend base outside the dorm...) So I felt like doing similarly for new incoming students =D. Plus, it's always nice to have varying opinions.</p>
<p>wildlion, </p>
<p>how much math did you have to take to be a comm studies major?</p>
<p>do people usually have one or two concentrations?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>The School of Comm. requires you to take three math/science courses. I took stats, "diversity of life," and "plate tectonics." </p>
<p>...not exactly the most rigorous slate of options, I know, but flexibility is one thing I really liked about NU. Humanities/communication majors don't have to take courses like calc or orgo if they don't want to, and since I know that both my grad school and career paths will not reqire any math or science whatsoever, I was fine taking the easier options. </p>
<p>Also, Comm. Studies majors usually only have one concentration, if any.</p>
<p>How easy is it to transfer between schools if you're not enamored with your current situation after a couple weeks/months? Are there schools that are really difficult to transfer into, or out of? Also, can someone major in one school and minor in another, or double major in two different schools? (such as an engineering degree with a minor in comm)</p>
<p>Right now I'm engineering, but im very unsure if I want to stick with it, but I'm hesitant to switch to WCAS, and I believe it's tough to switch into comma and medill. Any incite into this would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>The only schools into which it's difficult to transfer (assuming that you are already a student at NU) are Journalism and Music. I actually started out in WCAS (poli sci, international studies) and decided to switch to Comm. Studies. It was as simple as filling out a form. </p>
<p>As long as you have, I believe, a 3.0 GPA, it's very easy to transfer from WCAS to Comm or from Comm to CAS, etc. I think it's even easier to transfer out of Engineering.</p>
<p>why did u transfer out? Im doing poli sci and international studies. ar the programs bad??</p>
<p>Is it true that if you live on south campus that you are taken away from much of the social life at Northwestern? It was claimed that Bobb was the biggest party dorm and that those in North campus had a higher chance of getting rushed by frats and be "part" of NU's social life. How much of this is true; How much is not?</p>
<p>For those residing in Sargent, does the single-sex floors really make a huge difference in terms of bonding?</p>
<p>No, that's completely untrue. It will only happen if you let it happen. This is coming from someone who lives in the furthest south dorm, Willard, whose ENTIRE HALL is filled with frat guys.</p>
<p>Nice. Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, there were two main reasons I switched to Comm. First of all, I felt that international studies and poli sci were feeding me a lot of the same information. It was repetitive. Plus, the International Studies program at NU, while it is improving, isn't all that strong, and back then it was weaker than it is now. </p>
<p>Second, to be honest, I found the advising in WCAS to be substandard, at best. While you are matched up with an advisor (as a freshman, it is your Fall Quarter seminar prof.), I just felt that the system was haphazard and didn't really work. For instance, my advisor told me to try taking some engineering courses to fulfill my math and science requirements--yet I was a political science/international studies major! Engineering would have destroyed me.</p>
<p>Also, Comm. Studies ended up being a better fit for my interests anyway, given the fact that they had the Media & Politics program, and I ended up stumbling upon the Chinese Language and Culture minor, which fulfilled my international interests (I had already taken courses such as International Ethics the 3-part Introduction to the World System, so I had all the IR background I really needed). </p>
<p>In the end, it worked really well, with Comm. Studies giving me excellent background in global media, campaign strategy, and political analysis and the Chinese program putting an international spin on my education (I studied abroad with NU's program in Beijing and then returned two summers later to teach English and work as a summer HR consultant for a company in Changchun). </p>
<p>I also think it was really the right move as far as grad school admissions were concerned, because it was a unique academic combination that gave me a pretty unconventional perspective (and the language skills were really valuable to me). </p>
<p>This was just my personal experience, though. Don't think that most people don't go through the Poli. Sci. major and have perfectly good experiences. I just felt I wanted something a little different, and Comm. provided that for me.</p>
<p>scoop22 , NU makes it fairly easy to double major and minor across schools. Also, in addition to being difficult to transfer into the music and journalism schools, it's very hard to get into the school of communication's theatre program if you don't start out there.</p>
<p>thanks alot, im mainly considering communications as a second major or minor, but not the theatre program</p>
<p>Scoop, you <em>must</em> take a course with a professor named David Zarefsky in the Comm. Studies department. He's generally considered the nation's leading scholar on rhetoric and is also one of the leading experts on Abraham Lincoln. I took several courses with him (the best of which was Rhetoric of the 1960s), and he became my mentor in college. You won't be disappointed.</p>
<p>keenya... something you might find interesting is that they made it so the international studies major can now double count up to four classes for another major... in other words, making it really convenient for poly sci/intl studies double majors... =D</p>
<p>I have a couple of questions...</p>
<p>Is it true that microwaves aren't allowed in the individual dorm rooms? What about toasters? Do most of the residence halls/residential colleges at least have a kitchen that has a microwave? </p>
<p>Is there a general "PE" sort of class that I could take? I know there's intermural and club sports and all that, but what about actually learning a sport?</p>
<p>Is it okay to wear sweatshirts from other colleges while at Northwestern? I'm from California, and most of my "cold-weather" clothing are my sister's old Berkeley sweatshirts...</p>
<p>Oh, and do most people get apartments in their sophomore year? What's the rent like?</p>
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<p>Hi Everyone!
Would current NU students please give some info on the following dorms; Willard, Allison, Shepard, 1835 Hinman, Chapin. I have heard that these are all really great dorms in their own rights, but I am having trouble picking one. I am a social person, but I don't party that much (I think this will change a bit though when I finally get to college). I am quite studious, but I just want a dorm where I can have a balance of the two. I would really appreciate any insight. Thanks!</p>
<p>happyclosedeyes: At least in Willard, microwaves aren't allowed...but everyone has them anyway. Most dorms also have kitchens. I don't know about gym classes, and who cares what you wear? It'd probably be good to have SOME NU gear though...</p>
<p>huters, check one of the other million recent housing threads. All 5 dorms are oft-asked about and there's plenty of into out about them.</p>
<p>Out of those 5 you listed your preferences should go Allison, Willard, 1835, Chapin, Shepard. Chapin is a variable the more you're into artsy stuff the higher on your list it should go. It also depends what you want, Allison is good for meeting people, so is 1835 but its suitestyle so its easy to get screwed and have suite-people you dont like, Willard is good for forming a group of friends for 4 years of college, allison allows you the flexibility to keep meeting people and do whatever you want throughout. Although everyone is able to choose whatever they want throughout.</p>