<p>actually betablocker, it’s not the university official page. it’s the page for northeastern accepted students only who are likely going there and want to get to know each other on facebook. why is it a problem if they want to discuss their love lives or talk about forms of media they mutually enjoy? isnt that a valid way to connect with people you might go to college with? i dont understand what your problem is</p>
<p>Its a group moderated by northeastern & imo it should have a professional convos than talking about some boyfriend story.
i found out about the page like a day ago and it was just embarrassing to read some of that. like wait…im going to school with girls that communicate like 5th graders? “like omg who here loves justin bieber” “oh me!” “<3 omg we are twins”
i bet kids who got into ivy league or top 30 universities are getting to know each other by talkin about justin biebers or chewing gum like a cow or their favorite condiment or their fav shampoo. really? fav shampoo?
i was hoping that kids talked about their majors and what not…not shampoo.
good thing nu isnt my top choice…i still have hope to go to college with more serious kid</p>
<p>I posted before that my daughter is on that page and she’s been on the other pages as well. She also read your comments here and shares your thoughts. </p>
<p>I know they had a chat for a while and she enjoyed talking to people there and liked the ones she ‘met.’ The page has just taken on a life of its recently. She still reads but doesn’t really post, so please don’t think that what goes on there is representative of the entire accepted class! Although I did wonder as well if this would be going on had she chosen her second choice school, which was a highly ranked liberal arts college. Somehow I doubt it! Not sure what has caused it to happen here. The first group of people she met seemed pretty nice.</p>
<p>And she hasn’t found anyone on there in her major yet although she has found quite a few in related majors (hers is pretty small).</p>
<p>Haha someone added me to the “114th NU Huskies” group which I believed was formed due to chat problems in the “114th Entering Class” group. I recommend staying away from these groups because your chat box is going to be spammed with the weirdest conversations. I was trying to talk to some of my friends online when I would be incessantly getting pop ups about guys in the group wanting to look at each other’s underwear. I asked as politely as I could if there was some option to turn the chat off just for the group but was met with antagonizing responses and was even labeled as homophobic. So I promptly left the group haha. The groups are definitely superficial and comprised of mostly kids who don’t have high school friends to talk to. I’m guessing most of these kids act in such a way probably because they are eager for that new “identity” you can form in college. Can’t really judge Northeastern though on the groups because the group that I left had like 70 people and NU is a BIG school. Besides, you want your college experience to be nice and fresh, why hasten it with petty Facebook groups?</p>
<p>Well. We can’t pretend NEU doesn’t have its ******bag population. Always has and probably will continue to have.</p>
<p>It’s ok, they’re easy to avoid. Except sometimes I find myself at the nearby bar Symphony 8, and then it gets much harder to avoid them, but I really bring that on myself by going there in the first place.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but I don’t see anything wrong with a group of students creating a separate group in order to make friends pre-college. Not everybody enjoys discussing academics 24/7. In fact, most friendships are not based solely off of academics. I’ve read all of the groups mentioned, and they do in fact talk about education and courses. They just happen to have a life outside of school, and they enjoy to talk about it. It’s perfectly normal in my opinion. People are able to relax and be laid back while still maintaining good grades. In fact, majority of the people that I have spoken to are PharmD’s or Premed students. In order to be accepted to those programs, you have to be intelligent. If anything, I believe that you guys are being judgmental. From what I’ve seen, the groups are open. They may have been closed in the past, but maybe they just wanted to get to know a certain group of people that they’ve already been talking to a little bit better? It’s harmless good fun. I think you people are overreacting about this situation. Just accept the fact that people actually try to make friends before entering college sometimes.</p>
<p>I have been on the NEU page daily since the first day and I have made some really good friends. I video chat with many of them frequently and I have exchanged my cell numbers with a couple and I also communicate with them via texting. I met a lot of serious kids about their careers, and many are excited for their co-ops and so on. I started a discussion about people careers and lots of people commented on it, which is evidence that they are serious kids at NEU. Its been exactly a month since the admission results came out, and I can say that I made several big time/major friends who I feel very close with. Its like I have know them all of my high school years. These kids share a lot of the same interests as me and are all highly motivated kids who have gotten into selective programs at NEU. I cannot wait until its move-in day, so I can meet more people and finally meet the several friends I already made.</p>
<p>Don’t really see the issue with people talking about non-school topics in the group. People are excited about going to college and are eager to get to know their future classmates. The group was created by NEU but is largely run by students so it’s really not a big deal. As for the other groups created, again not a big deal. Some people got quite upset about it, which is understandable if you read it and it appeared as though everything that was being said was serious, but it wasn’t. Most of the people from the other group still check back on occasion in the original and are friendly so it’s nothing to worry about. Everybody is, in general, very amicable and I don’t see why any of this is a problem. It’s hardly fair to accuse people who are enjoying the group and making new friends as not currently having friends at all.</p>
<p>There definitely is no issue with talking about non school topics. I’m all for making new friends and meeting new people. </p>
<p>I guess I was just bitter that my personal experience with the group was pretty crappy and just awkward. I logged on to Facebook and my chat thing just kept popping up about people wanting to video chat half naked or something like that. I simply asked if there was a way to not have the chat pop up and people were telling me about their rights as gays and I was told to leave the group. I have met some great people, but I’ve met some shallow people as well. Eh, situation is a little ambiguous. Hopefully we can all just reconcile.</p>
<p>Maybe going as far to say that those students have no friends is a little unfair, but isn’t basing group acceptance on attractiveness a bit unfair? Shallow? Plain wrong? The chat box would pop up with kids saying that “this person wants to join, should we allow them?” Then others coming back with “Ew, no, they look like a 50 year old”, or “Don’t do it, they’re annoying”.</p>
<p>I’m not being judgmental, I didn’t express this until just recently, several weeks after witnessing these events happening. I’m sure some of you are great people, but that group definitely has some two-faced kids.</p>
<p>Well that’s strange. Maybe you’re talking about a different group then? I’m in the one called “The 114th Class Huskies” and I’ve vchatted with these people before. Nobody has ever asked to vchat half naked. Nobody ever has. We sit in our kitchens or bedrooms and talk about rooming assignments and other related topics. Recently, about the blizzard in the northeast. I don’t know what group you’re a part of, but none of that has ever happened. We don’t judge anybody based on attractiveness. In a matter of days the group when from 14 members to over 70 members. When it was privatized, we were accepting people that we talked to and got along with. We want to make friends with people. The judging here is absolutely ridiculous. It’s Facebook, c’mon now.</p>
<p>It was definitely the 114th Class Huskies. It started with someone saying they were gay and then everything just kind of snowballed. I guess it was a joke or something and it went over my head. I’m just going to put it in the past.</p>
<p>Its unfortunate kids are having bad experiences. And if you read some of the things, its pretty evident that its all goofing around.
College really opened me up to more diversity. My high school is perhaps one of the most diverse schools in the country and NEU seems to be just as diverse. I meet kids from Oregon and Tennessee, and have gotten to know each really well. Everyday, things keep getting better. </p>
<p>Sorry for the plug but I have a page for NEU pharmacy kids. Join, its called: “Northeastern University Pharmacy Class of 2017” 
everyone is the pharmacy page is getting along perfectly and we are all helping each other with decisions about college and things like the LLC. Its a good community.</p>
<p>I’ve been on all of the groups and I don’t understand all of this craziness! It’s been great talking to a bunch of people who are equally enthusiastic about NEU. The 114th Husky group wasn’t based on looks at all. In fact, some of the nerdiest people I’ve met are in that group (and some of my favorite haha). I also haven’t been on when anyone was talking about video-chatting naked…kind of happy about that.</p>
<p>@00RxM7</p>
<p>haha this must be ruthvik</p>
<p>yay for promoting our group :D</p>
<p>@armavirum</p>
<p>somewhat of a similar thing happened to me too =</p>
<p>Yes, the group did go from about 20-30 to now 70ish because the original students, the ones who made the group “Elite Huskies”, changed the name to plain “Huskies” and opened it publicly. The reason for this? They were saying in the chat that the group was not exclusive and secret enough. They created a new group for themselves(about 10-20 students or so) that was invite only. See a pattern here?</p>
<p>I remember a specific discussion where someone brought up the question: “What’s the worst thing that has ever happened to you”(or something to that effect)</p>
<p>The responses? Normal stuff mostly, but then people started saying names of other neu EA kids that weren’t in the group. For example:
Person 1: (Insert name here) lawl
Person 2: omg don’t get me started about him/her
Person 2: he/she is so annoying…</p>
<p>As for the thing I said about basing group acceptance on looks, that’s from when the group wasn’t public. I remember signing on in the morning to see the chat from the previous night, seeing these things being said about people that they probably didn’t even know.</p>
<p>That’s my point, it’s facebook. An impersonal form of communication where you can say anything about anyone without consequence. That doesn’t mean you should say them. You can say you didn’t see/participate in these instances, and that could be very true, but it doesn’t change the fact that it did/still is happening. I’m not going to name names, that would make me no better than the students saying these things. I’m just a fellow student concerned about all of this. This isn’t middle school, they shouldn’t be acting like they are 12 year olds.</p>
<p>It hasn’t happened recently, which is good, but then again I’m not in the new elite group.</p>
<p>dude, ontoboston, i think you are making this dramatic. this went from a simple question to drama about fb.
ya this isnt middle school, so cut the drama. i was slightly upset about the discussion on the main page but you are a new level of personal grudges.</p>
<p>Yeah this has been blown massively out of proportion. I feel bad because I brought up how some people were offended in the chat because Ruthvik asked why people weren’t joining the group. Just explained why, wasn’t one of the people offended, but I think that’s what got everybody going. In the grand scheme of things facebook groups don’t even matter a little bit and even if there are people who don’t like each other, NEU is a huge school. It’s pretty easy to avoid confrontation. Everybody should just relax and enjoy getting to know one another.</p>
<p>I agree, BetaBlocker. It’s just petty.</p>
<p>I decided about two weeks ago to go to BU, I just seemed to socialize better with some of the kids there. Don’t get me wrong, there are many good kids going to Northeastern next year, it just didn’t work for me. I hope to see some of you at the Hockey games next year, I’ll be Alicia with the scarlet and white scarf!</p>