A few questions about Binghamton...

aferger1
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:42:32 +0000

Hey!
My name’s Amber and I’m actually a student here at Binghamton- I absolutely love it. To answer your questions:

1) It depends. The sooner you send in your rankings of housing choice, the more likely you are to get your first choice. CIW is actually the most preferred community- 80% of our students choose that as their first choice. If you decide to put Dickinson first, I can guarantee that you’ll get in. You had mentioned that you want corridor-style living. CIW, Newing, and Dickinson are the only communities that have these type of rooms. Mountainview and Hinman are composed entirely of suites. It’s definitely personal preference though- when you’re in a suite, you become really close to a small group of people, but when you live in corridor style rooms, your door is pretty much always open and you get to know a lot of people.

2) There’s a TON to do in Binghamton- if you know where to look We have a mall, Walmart, a movie theatre, a ton of parks, and we’re actually home to the Binghamton Mets and Senators, so if you’re up for a sports game, that’s always an option The first Friday of every month we have what’s called “First Friday” where local artists display their artwork- it’s a lot of fun :)

3) Most large classes are general education or introductory courses. So, your freshman year, you’ll be in those classes that have maybe 100 or 200 other students in them. That’s totally intimidating, and the professors know that, so for every lecture class there’s a discussion/lab session where students are broken off into groups of about 25 maybe once or twice a week and meet to discuss the material covered in lecture. It’s really helpful, I promise. I took Physics 2 last semester, and 100 of us met 3 times a week for lecture, but then twice a week, I went to my discussion section with about 20 other kids, and we talked about what was discussed in class that week. When you start taking upper level classes, you’ll find that the class size becomes progressively smaller.

I hope that helped! If you have any other questions, definitely post them here- I can assure you that someone will respond :)