<p>There was an interesting article "Confessions of an NYU Freshman" yesterday (9/14) in the NY Post which describes in detail the social life at NYU.</p>
<p>Overview:</p>
<p>I live in Hayden Hall, a building right on Washington Square Park, with a well-founded reputation as a party dorm.</p>
<p>I have friends who live in University Hall uptown, and it's pretty boring. Everyone has their doors shut, and no one really socializes. I also have friends who live in Weinstein, the other freshman dorm, and they kind of hate it, too. It's more like a prison block than a dorm. </p>
<p>In Hayden we all keep our doors open all the time, and people room-hop all day and pretty much all night. My three roommates and I have met a ton of people this past week. I think everyone is much more social because we've all been drinking our faces off. </p>
<p>A lot of people have fake IDs, so they get the liquor and then we all share. Vodka, Captain Morgan's and beer are the dorm favorites. When I first got here, I really feared meeting new people and hoped that getting comfortable with my chaotic surrounding wouldn't be too difficult. It turns out it was much easier than I thought. </p>
<p>One of the first things I did when I moved in was sign up for Facebook (facebook.com), an online student directory. It's the greatest thing ever - Cliffs Notes for your classmates - where you post your name, hobbies and picture; a virtual extension of yourself. You can also post your schedule, which is helpful when you want to know the name of the hot redhead who was sitting next to you in Bio 101. </p>
<p>Most of the upperclassmen use Facebook, also known as the "hook-up book" the "hooker booker" and the "get face book" to get a look at the hot freshman girls. It works both ways. If the hot redhead from bio is much more into the upperclassmen, my chances are slimmer. </p>
<p>Drugs are not hard to get in the dorms. They're readily available, and although I don't know anyone personally who deals, I've heard plenty of stories. </p>
<p>I have a friend who's a sophomore, a photography major, who lives in the Palladium. Palladium is mostly apartment-style housing for upperclassmen and an awesome place to live. There's a guy who runs a poker room, and there are parties three or four nights a week. People do lines in the bathrooms, some kid makes like 700 bucks a week dealing and you can pretty much get any drug you want without ever leaving the dorms. </p>
<p>Ritalin is no longer the drug of choice for studying. It's Adderall, and it's really easy to buy. It's only like $5 a pill, and people love it. People buy Vicodin and Perks, too, from kids who have had muscle strains and stuff. They're not dealers, they're just NYU entrepreneurs. </p>
<p>What blows my mind is that I heard someone paid $50 for two Vicodin pills. Some of these people just have so much money. I mean, people probably spend an average of $250 to $300 a week in restaurants and buying alcohol. It's difficult being a student who doesn't have a lot of disposable income or a trust fund. </p>
<p>Complete article</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/living/53353.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nypost.com/living/53353.htm</a></p>
<p>Not sure I should have read the above post ;-(...have sixteen year old daughter at NYU.....well, good thing, she doesn't live in Hayden, just kidding. </p>
<p>On a positive note, my daughter is loving NYU and NYC.
Susan</p>
<p>:eek: :eek: :eek: !!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Yikes! YIKES!</p>
<p>Probably so......do I want to see it and smell the after frangrance?? NO Of course these things happen at most every school.....do I want to make it a public spectacle about my school........NO</p>
<p>bites fingernails- are all schools like this?</p>
<p>Soozie I'm sure your d is keeping nice and busy in the theatre. :)</p>
<p>Sounds like someone needed some attention and nothing like the NY POst to publish such nonsense. My d lives in Hayden and I can assure you it's not completely like that. Perhaps the author is so out of it all the time that he assumes everyone else is, too. Sure you can find these activities at most any college, but the kids with good sense know how to ignore it. I am not worried about my d because she knows better and she has better things to spend her limited income on. She assures methat there are some wild kids oin every domr, but there are lots of "normal," nice ones, too.</p>
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This is like a complement to the preppy manifesto.</p>
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<p>I would not call it a preppy manifesto rather more than a statement of fact because the village is expensive like the rest of NYC is expensive. Since there is no real campus to speak of , the city is their campus and hanging out is costly</p>
<p>I think part of the expense is the endless options.....The Met, Broadway,Symphony......Museums all that attracts folks to NYC. So...if one is there for 4 years why not make the most of that limited time.....enjoy it all. Mets, Yankees....Knicks.....so much. I'd say that you can survive for little but then why choose NYC? Much of what undergrad is about is soaking up life in all the aspects that life is.....studying being only one.</p>
<p>hazmat, how much does it take for a NYU student to enjoy NY? 100 a week? 150 a week?</p>
<p>You guys, high school is like that too in some places. Ever heard of Spence. Or what happened to those Marymount girls?...
Needless to say, they weren't powdering their noses in the bathroom between classes. :)
If your kid is level headed and you raised him/her right, (which I'm sure most of you did) he or she won't go down that route. The people who do are either overwhelmed kids from small towns, or jaded rich kids who have more or less lived on their own since their nanny was fired when they turned ten. ;) ha</p>
<p>I'd say if you are talking optionals::say you eat, do a museum and sports/theatre/symphony thing you could easily do lots for $500./month While this may sound outrageous to some folks it is not an every weekend thing. I also take a young maid on occassion. The way I look at this type of thing is this......you don't have to have the $100. Broadway seat and a seat in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium is $20. The most expensive museum is MOMA at $20......then you've got the Staten Island Ferry=free and soup dumplings at Joe's on Mott=$15. which makes up for the splurge at Balthazar $60. So.....a small job say $9./hour and work 10 hours a week or so.....this covers it really. There are tons of cheaper things and they are also fun but in a month it is not too much to soak up the good stuff too. The Metropolitan Opera has student tickets and so do many other venues......rush tickets. I don't like to always go alone or with guys so sometimes I go to baseball and dinner w/ a female friend....several girls I know love baseball and it is always a nice time.</p>