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<li>I will be transferring in with several other students from a foreign college; we are being offered places in the international village. I was thinking that I didnt want to be around students who are just learning english etc; would I make friends just as easily if I lived off campus?</li>
<li>Do students in NU party on weeknights or is the workload such that they usually only party on the weekends?</li>
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<p>No no no. Do not move off campus. While it’s still fine to make friends when you live off campus, it is (for the most part) a lot harder. When you come home, it’s not like you’re going to talk to your neighbors, who might be 40 year old men. Whereas in a dorm you see people often, you talk a lot during move-in week, you go to the dining hall together, etc. I moved off campus last year and while I’ve kept all of my “old” friends (who I met in dorms), the only “new” friends are ones from my co-op. If you’re completely new then you should probably stay on campus.</p>
<p>Not all of international village is international students. In fact, the international LLC (if that’s where you have been placed) is only a small part of the buildings, so there will be lots of other LLCs there too. </p>
<p>Workload completely depends on your major and what classes you happen to be taking that semester. Art, architecture, physics, and CS tend to have a lot of homework and outside required studying (obviously that’s not an exhaustive list, just listing a few that tend to be true). However if a physics major takes one physics class a semester and three core electives that are very easy for him, he can party all he wants. Plus even some people who do have tough semesters still don’t put in much effort. It’s just a personal preference. As an econ and math major, I’ve only had to NOT do something at night when I had a huge paper due the next day- which was always for non-econ and non-math classes. But I know a few econ students that read the textbooks every night…</p>