<p>Someone help me out with the social aspect at SBU
-girl:guy?
-parties?
-weekends?</p>
<p>Girl to guy ratio: not sure
Parties: EVERY Thursday, somewhere on campus. More than one some Thursdays. Parties are insane from what I hear.
Weekends: Eh, to each his own. It’s not a ghost town if you know where to hang out and you make friends.</p>
<p>50/50 M/F. I can’t directly address the other questions, though.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>ok thx, I’ve heard things like SBU is a “commuter school” any thoughts on this? Or how it may affect the weekend scene?</p>
<p>I went there last weekend and it was absolutely empty. The only people I saw were a few heading back to their dorms from the LIRR (it was sunday)</p>
<p>Slavic, where on campus were you and what time on? I was on campus last Sunday and ran into plenty of people I know. Weekends there’s not much reason to head into the academic mall area unless you want to use the library or gym or eat at the SAC, but there are definitely people around the dorms.</p>
<p>Well If i remember correctly it was around 2 o clock (Im not really sure). I basically just drove around campus with my parents for 30 minutes, and the only building I walked into was the main one for students. I forget what its called. Maybe everyone was just huddled up inside</p>
<p>I went to an open house with my best friend, and we walked from the Lirr stop to the admissions office because the bus was no where in sight for over 30 mins. When we got the entrance of the office, it was empty. We thought we missed the presentation! Turns out it was to the back of the building.</p>
<p>We then were ushered into a auditorium (not modern at all) where an admissions rep and two Asian female students waxed poetic about the joys at Stony Brook. They then divided the tour into two groups.</p>
<p>On the tour, I visited the sports complex, (my tour guide would not stop talking about the sports aspect of the school), the theater building where they talked at length about the movie night and plays. </p>
<p>My best friend is interested in Mechanical engineering and I in Computer Science. There was nary a mention of the Sciences. When I asked the Asian girl if we could tour the science buildings, she said no one was there and directed my friend and I to it. </p>
<p>We left the group and checked it out ourselves. The engineering building housed labs and so forth, in a building that mirrored a high school setup. Along the hallways were pictures of mostly Asian students, in experiments etc. The scenes lacked much diversity.</p>
<p>After we left the Science building, I rejoined the tour and visited the female dorms. We got to see a student’s room as she stood to the side. Very small with one double decker bed, and a single bed. Apparently 3 students shared the room. There were only two computer desks.</p>
<p>We then went to a common room in dorm, where I slept through an entire lecture on campus security(about 1 hour) and again I left the group. </p>
<p>This time, I went to the student activities center. I wanted to eat, but my train was leaving in 15, so we grabbed a tuna sandwich (8 bucks!) and my friend and I went to the bus stop. A bus pulled up, we proceeded to board, the driver yelled at us, slammed the door and drove off. </p>
<p>Flabbergasted and late, we ran all the way to the Lirr and just as we were crossing the street, the train pulled into the station! Relieved and gasping for breath, we realized this wasn’t the school for us and sat down to eat a lackluster tuna sandwich. </p>
<p>Other observations:
The Open house was on a Saturday. The campus was pretty lifeless. When we walked to the admissions office, we saw a few students. They were polite when we asked directions. One simply didn’t know where the office was.</p>
<p>We saw a two groups of students playing basket ball separately in a single section. A group of Asians played to one side, hollering in their language, and a slightly more diverse group on the other side, a few whites and one black guy.</p>
<p>The campus isn’t much to look at. It is rather bland if you like concrete buildings and walkways. I may be wrong but there didn’t seem to be campus wide wifi. Rather Ethernet connectivity.</p>
<p>I really want to like Stony Brook. It is close enough and far enough from home in NYC. I have little intention of commuting every weekend. The surrounding area isn’t lively. It seems like a ghost town. The question is, can I live here for the next 3 years?</p>
<p>Ty very much for that detailed response. I know that stony brook will suck for me socially, but Im sort of stuck going there. Ill try to make the best of it though</p>
<p>Slavic: LOL, driving around campus at 2pm on a Sunday is an unfortunate way to get an impression of pretty much any school! High school guidance counselors should really offer some kind of college touring 101.</p>
<p>First off, at 2pm on a weekend a decent chunk of the campus was probably still sleeping/just getting up. People who were awake were likely either getting food or doing work, not wandering around the middle of campus. Weekends, the student population is centered around the residential quads rather than the academic mall. If you’d gone to one of the dining halls by the dorms, I can guarantee you would have seen a crowd. There was probably also a good group of people in the SAC dining hall–is that the building you walked into? The eating area was fairly crowded when I met people there later in the afternoon, so I can’t imagine it was deserted around 2.</p>
<p>If you (or anyone else reading this) ever visit on a weekend again, I recommend going later in the afternoon, walking around one of the quads and checking out places like the Tabler Arts Center or Kelly if you want to see plenty of people. The center of campus will probably also get more populous as the weather gets nicer and it makes sense to trek over there to read or frisbee or whatever.</p>
<p>laserfox: Not sure what your experience shows besides a weirdly organized tour (maybe the campus safety stuff was aimed more at anxious parents?). Sports aren’t really what I would choose to emphasize that’s great about Stony Brook, personally, but I guess they’re important to some people. The stuff at Staller is pretty awesome though. You say you wandered around a science or engineering building, but I can’t for the life of me figure out which one it was and why you’d look at it on a weekend. We have a lot of science and engineering buildings, none of which seem particularly “high school” to me (unless your high school has a particle accelerator, in which case I’m pretty jealous). Like I already said to Slavic, if you focus on the academic mall on a weekend you’re not getting an accurate impression of how many people are around and what they’re up to.</p>
<p>Everywhere but the dorms has wifi, by the way. And a regular tuna sandwich is definitely not $8! You must have accidentally grabbed a halal one or something in your rush to catch the train. And in general, it’s not a great idea to go for a prepackaged sandwich made with mayo unless you like soggy things :P</p>