<p>Dorms are definitely large enough! You are never required to live on campus so I would say most people live off campus by their junior year. We have A LOT of dorms and right now there is no shortage of rooms. I know this because my roommate moved out (dropped out of NCSU) and I’ve had a single all semester.</p>
<p>As for GEPs, I haven’t taken many because I came into State with 21 hours from AP credits, mostly in humanities and social sciences. As a freshman I know it can be challenging to get into the most popular GEP courses. These are usually the ones largely regarded as being easy, or ones that satisfy two requirements (like a US Diversity Humanities course or a Global Knowledge Social Sciences). Besides those, I haven’t heard of people have horrible problems taking the classes that they want to. Just make sure you plan your schedule accordingly if you want to graduate with a double-major in four years :)</p>
<p>If you’re in an engineering discipline, your GEP course-load (assuming no AP credits coming in and no high school foreign language) will be in foreign language (I don’t know how many credits), 6 hours of Humanities, 6 hours of Social Sciences, 5 hours of Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 3 hours of US Diversity (can overlap with another course), 3 hours of Global Knowledge (again can overlap). The lists of classes that satisfy each requirement are found here: [GEP</a> Course Lists | Office of Undergraduate Courses & Curricula](<a href=“Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards”>Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards), and you’re always welcome to take classes outside of your major.</p>
<p>I know that the College of Natural Resources has it’s own Office of Diversity and I’m pretty sure there is one university-wide. These offices will offer programs and try to keep NC State going in the right direction. But commenting as a student, I feel like we are generally a tolerant bunch. The majority of our students will be white, christian, and southern, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t people from every walk of life here. As an atheist I have never felt discriminated against, even when the Brickyard Preachers were yelling biblical verses at me. We have a Free Expression Tunnel in the middle of campus where students are free to paint whatever they want. We self-censor this and I know there was a racial slur written on the tunnel during the election. It was painted over by a watchful student within the hour.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of any recent LGBT incidents occurring on campus, but I might not be in the right circles to hear about them. I try to read The Technician, our newspaper, to stay up-to-date on University issues and they haven’t covered anything recently. You can read it online and I would highly suggest it. If there is a serious problem on campus, they will cover it.</p>