<p>I've heard many many people rant about how hard it is to make friends at NYU. The rumor is that once people make friends with their neighbors their first year, they form very firm posses and pretty much don't care to befriend anyone else. My sister from Duke spent a semester at NYU doing an internship. She told me about how the students pretty much hung out with their best friends and there weren't any major social gatherings. </p>
<p>What confuses me is.. it's the city and I've been assuming that everyone's friends with everyone.. because there's no major frats or anything and people are more independent and thus are more willing to accept others as friends instead of sticking to a select 3-4 people to hang out with.</p>
<p>For those who go there.. what are your thoughts on your experiences? any tips too? I'm not really liking the idea of being stuck to posses... but I don't want to be excluded at the same time</p>
<p>I think New Yorkers in general are very cliquish and tend to become good friends with a smaller group of people. I’ve always been like that, before NYU and even here at NYU. </p>
<p>I would just try to take part in a lot of clubs or play a sport or something. I met a lot of people as a Welcome Week leader and when I was working in the Student Resource Center.</p>
<p>(Sorry it’s short, I’m typing on an Android phone while heading back to Manhattan. I can elaborate more later :-P)</p>
<p>Wow that’s pretty sick, a thing about night life and social gatherings… do NYU kids usually go to the same clubs and bars on nights? and should I expect to see other students? or is it very exclusive in the sense that we all go to different parts of the city and do out own thing with our friends</p>
<p>Since it’s NYU in NYC, there’s not much school spirit bringing the students together. The “cliques” are friends with common interests (NYU = diversity), and you’ll probably hang with them a lot of the time, but it’s not like it will be exclusively the “cliques” you are friends with.</p>