<p>I'm planning on going here, but im also oos so i have a few questions...
how's the social life? dorms - are the facilities relatively new?/size of rooms...
greek life?
what you do in your spare time.</p>
<p>oh another question - how is double majoring?</p>
<p>Social Life = great, it's a city, big campus
Dorms = depends, rooms are generally small, it's college, you get over it.
Greek Life = ask someone else.
Spare time = join clubs, eat, hang out, party, workout, etc. Average college; great thing about being in the city -- stuff to do!
Double major = depends on the major, but not too bad if they're related and overlap.</p>
<p>Albany is interesting choice if you haven't seen it. Physically, it is not inspiring unless your a fan of Edward Durell Stone- Stone as in cement.
From their site...Opened in the mid 1960s, the Uptown Campus bears the unique post-modernist architectural design of Edward Durell Stone, replete with curving arches, slender modern columns, open spaces and fountains. The NanoTech Complex, added in the mid 1990s and expanding yearly, embraces dramatic, ultramodern steel-and-glass construction which mirrors the College of Nanoscale Sciences and Engineerings worldwide leadership in advancing and disseminating atomic scale knowledge.
Many would just say plain ugly. The two downtown campus's are really nice.
Social scene, when I was there long age was awesome, it is a small city that is the State capital. Loads of good bands come through and a zillion bars of every stripe. The city is pretty ugly as well.</p>
<p>-Social life: Great (live in a dorm, and save for a house as a junior!)
-Dorms: Small rooms, Not beautiful, .. but very, very, very fun. (Get on State Quad!)
-Greek: Not that great, but it exists
-Spare time: Its a lot of NYC, Long Island, Westchester kids = work out, drink, study a little, work out, spike your hair (if your a female, color your hair), go tanning.... and then hit the bars (I'm kidding, kind of)
-Facilities: getting better than when I was there (99-03)</p>