Student Profile
Svetlana
- Class: Junior
- Major: English
- Gender: F
- High School: Midwood
- Transfer Student: N
Big Picture
The best thing about NYU is the wide range of experience it allows. If you want it, it's out there. I think that they might be trying to make it too large though with new mergers and acquisitions. Yes, buying property all over the place is great, but that don't leave much left for the people already at NYU. I get a mix reaction when people hear I'm from NYU. The main two responses would have to be though, did you sell an organ to get there and have you seen the Olsen twins yet? My dorm is far from campus now, but I do have breaks in between, I would saw that I'm generally at a place with couches, like Kimmel's second floor or the downstairs of Bobst. Of course during warm weather, and before the days of construction, I loved Washington Sq. Park. The latest controversy from NYU would probably have to be that graduation is taking place at a stadium now and not Washington Sq. park. I would be pretty sad not to take that symbolic walk through the arch.
Academic Life
Like an other school academics at NYU has been a mix. People tend to make fun of it by I loved the General Studies Program (GSP). Pretty much all my classes for the first two years of school were small seminar classes, where the professors did know my name. I especially had this one amazing professor for Cultural Foundations, who also happened to be my adviser in GSP. When doing my transfer to CAS, there are more lectures involved, which then requires a recitation class. However with my majors, a lot of my classes tend to be seminar style. My Italian classes have all been very small which I think is important in learning a language. In addition, all my Italian professors thus far have been amazing! Though it takes a while for things to get done in the English department, the people I've communicated with have been very friendly. My second major is Italian/Linguistics and those departments are much smaller so I hear back from them quicker. The bad classes at NYU have been this way mainly because of the professor. I've learned that many times that the topic can be great, but if you have a bad professor it doesn't matter in the least.
Student Body
It's hard to be completely out of place at NYU just because there seems to be a place for everything. There are clubs for every different religious group. I would say though that if you are a Republican at NYU, you are going to be a minority. However the Republicans club at NYU seemed to have banded together and gotten a kick out of this. The controversy they stirred with their "Find the illegal immigrant game" last year was unbelievable. I feel that dress varies from year to year and from different schools. Of course you can recognize the business school Sternies with their suits. On-campus freshman year students are the ones that dress most lax probably because dorms are a block away. However once you're an upperclassman that changes and at least for me so did my apparel. There seems to be a big population of NYU students from New York, New Jersey, Long Island and also California. I think no matter where you're from there are different financial backgrounds, but everyone talks about how much money they will earn. The Stern students are basking in how much money business will make them, while liberal arts students tend to wonder more about how they are going to repay those student loans.
The Best Things
opportunities
The Worst Things
costs
