<p>the posters complaining about all the work after welcome week must be kidding (except maybe people in tisch acting, ironically enough they have the most work). The work load at NYU is abysmally small compared to most schools of this caliber. Most classes have a mid term, a final, and maybe 2 2-5 page papers if its a really "hard" class. Alot just have two or three tests. The only thing remotely hard freshmen year in WTE...but its really not work wise. The only thing that gets graded if the final paper, if you are spending hours on the practice and pre-drafts, you are just wasting your time. It comes out to 3 6 page papers on easy topics. 50% of it is weaving some ******** personal story about yourself into it, which takes about 1-2 hours. </p>
<p>Welcome week is ok, but I lost touch with almost everyone I met there. Alot of times you get stuck hanging out with people you don't particularly like, but have to out of not knowing anybody, don't know if this is a good or bad thing. You can definitely make friends throughout the year, so don't sweat it if you aren't Mr. Popular at the welcome week events. Definitely try to be friendly with the people on your floor first thing tho. Go knocking on doors with cookies and such.</p>
<p>majority of my academic classes had 3 or 4 6-10 pg. papers, as well as an enormous amt. of reading material and often exercises due weekly (no, not just in WTE). i wouldn't say most classes have "abysmally" (what is that?) work loads...of course it depends on what classes you take.</p>
<p>Eh, NYU's workload is whatever you choose to make out of it. You can def. find a ton of easy profs and have maybe a couple of hours of homework a week max. You can also not research the profs at all and end up in hard classes (but I have no idea why anyone would do this). All in all, WTE sucks a ton.</p>
<p>amen to that (the WTE comment). of course try not to go into WTE hating it because you heard bad things. if you can make the class interesting by having interesting discussions, then it can be good. i have a friend who LOVED writing the essay. and i liked it the end of my first semester because everyone in the class finally opened up and were able to dialogue and have a good time with eachother.</p>
<p>to mattistotle-- work load varies immensely. You can't generalize across the board what the workload is really. </p>
<p>Also, I was probably the only one who LOVED WTE. Actually, everyone in my class loved WTE. We probably just had an amazing prof. Probably weird to say but its one of my favorites classes so far</p>
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<p>Campus jobs are best to find through friends. The good ones don't bother to advertise on careernet since they fill up right away one there is a vacancy, such as computer lab aide jobs. If you want to get one of careernet, get an account now, and start searching before/very beginning of welcome week.</p>
<p>thanks for that link to events. Will they be sending something out with all that information on it? Considering NYU seems to have 'fancy brochures' down to an art, I would hope that they would have a 'hard copy' of that info available. Or I will have a lot of printing to do!</p>