<p>I know this sounds like a dumb question, but does the fact that NYU doesn't have much of a campus make it harder to makefriends outside of your dorm? How much involvement does the average student have in NYU's extracurricular activities? I know that if I went to NYU, I would be sacrificing the quintessential 'college experience' a little bit, but I'm just wondering how independent students aree from the university?</p>
<p>Please don't attack me... I got an angry private message when I asked a stupid question about the social life at penn, haha...</p>
<p>I get what you mean...I'm interested too. While frats and sororities aren't as big of a deal, are there fraternity and sorority types of people at NYU?</p>
<p>I haven't started nyu yet, but i went to the CAS orientation session earlier this summer, and having heard about how "independent" and supposedly anti-social nyu is, I was surprised to have met many great future classmates of mine who shared similar interests. Everyone was really friendly and interested in getting to know other people. NYU's a relatively big school, so i'm pretty sure you'll have no problem finding your niche there.</p>
<p>ya i totally agree with nirvana. when i went to orientation everyone was really eager to meet ppl. i think you will have no trouble finding friends at nyu. welcome week has over 150 social activites (so thats a big chance to meet ppl) also you can meet ppl in your classes. i thought i would have trouble making some good friends at orientation, but i was seriously mistaken</p>
<p>haha, well at my orientation, many of the people i became friends with shared the same sentiment that lots of people were rather antisocial and didn't want to make lots of friends...idk why they were like that, but it was kind of sad to see people i will be going to school with, and even possibly living with, that refused to be social.</p>
<p>I went to stern orientation, and it was a little better than i thought it would be , but there was alot of ackward/anti-social people. If the stereotypes are right, that should be a stern thing, heh. Eveyrone i talked to who went to a CAS orientation loved it.</p>
<p>yea the stern orientation was odd. at first there were only a few people who were willing to introduce themselves and strike up conversation. It took a pretty decent chunk of time before anyone really started to open up. It's too bad the orientation wasn't a two day thing because by the time everyone was comfortable with one another it was time to go. It would have been fun to go out with people at night</p>
<p>i think it was more of a get new students together day so that you meet a couple of people instead of an actual orientation because stern's actual orientation is during that first week of school where there are no classes.</p>
<p>vanessa - i went to steinhardt's june 28-29 orientation...i had a good time, i just felt like about half of the people there just genuinely did not want to be there & were miserable...maybe it was the humidity and lack of AC in brittany, but who knows...</p>
<p>dilo - i went to a 2 day orientation for steinhardt june 28-29 and met people who "It would have been fun to go out with at night" but there was no way NYU/the orientation leaders were going to let that happen...besides the fact that we were busy playing "dicey decisions" and going to a dance until like 11:30 [and lights out was somewhere around 12:30-1ish], and thus had little time to go out...they were all literally camped out in the lobby making sure no one snuck out...</p>
<p>however...if you somehow covered yourself in a trusty invisibility cloak to sneak past the orientation leaders that were camped out in the lobby of brittany, then managed to remember your friends' room numbers, and sneak back up to catch them under your cloak too, you MAY have been able to go out...but there wouldn't have really been a point, since we had to wake up @ 7 the next morning...</p>
<p>oh, and if you got caught, your punishment was to register for classes absolutely LAST in august, which would have been horrible, since we were the second orientation and classes were filling up already...</p>
<p>I'm sure welcome week will be a LOT different for you guys. The CAS orientations were longer and bigger, which is probably why everyone was eager to open up and strike up conversation.</p>
<p>the answer is yes, you have to try harder than you would have to at a normal college
jaimejolie: there is no GSP orientation really, it takes place during the first week of school during welcome week</p>
<p>it's not hard at all to make friends if you're willing and open to different types of people. i made a lot of my friends through events during welcome week. the events and programs that they put up were really good. i actually made a lot of friends after being hypnotized in front of about 600 people and making a complete ass of myself. to this day, i still meet people who saw me (they always ask if it really worked). </p>
<p>i truely suggest going to the welcome week events...sure, you're gonna want to go clubbing and whatnot the first week, but figure that you'll have 4 years to do that. spend a couple of days beforehand actually getting to know people outside of their drunken states. and in them too.</p>