<p>Calmom, AlwaysAMom came through with great information. </p>
<p>I tried looking up the housing question but could find nothing about coed housing. I know that the floors are coed but believe the rooms are single sex, if not for all students, then at least for freshmen. A call to housing office would yield that answer. Perhaps there was an experiment to allow coed for upper class but I don’t know for sure.</p>
<p>After I posted last night, I did read that shipping stuff out for your kid’s room like you were talking about, must arrive AFTER the student has arrived on campus, not before. </p>
<p>I don’t know that mice or bugs are prevalent everywhere and doubt that is the case. I think they exist either in certain dorms periodically or on certain floors. As mentioned, my D said nothing of this until this semester and she tied it into the fact that she was on the second floor which led me to believe that it wasn’t an issue for friends on higher floors. </p>
<p>Freshmen have like an 8 day Orientation BEFORE classes begin and so as AlwaysAMom mentions, it starts on the Sunday before Labor Day weekend at the end of August. Last year move in for Freshmen was August 28. Orientation events began that night. Some events during the week are for all of NYU and some are school specific (in your case, Gallatin). </p>
<p>I also agree that NYU is not for everyone, though is exactly what my D wanted and she could not be more happy with her choice. In her program at Tisch, however, it is very very intense in terms of the time commitments. This program would not be for everyone. It is not like regular college. Lately she has had some 15 hour days at school and this is without homework figured in. Just this past weekend she had 28 hours of crew assigned. I believe her hours this week are of the 12-15 hour sort without homework.</p>
<p>She truly loves her program, her university and the total experience she is having, including being in NYC. I think it will be hard to pull her away in May. She hasn’t even been home this semester at all and in fact her break was scheduled up by NYU things as well. I’m glad your D will go to University Day and even spend some more time at NYU and talk to current students, faculty, and maybe sit in on some classes as she is staying the week. Also exploring NYC will be a blast. It is a huge experience as it is not JUST going off to college but also moving to a city and while it was just what my D wanted, it is a huge transition from her life on a dirt road in the mountains in a town that has no traffic lights and has a population not much bigger than her dorm’s population. She has had no problems with that transition but I’m simply saying it really is growing into another life beyond just being a college student but also being independent in a city and all that entails. That part is kinda harder on me as a mom than on her as she is thriving on it. </p>
<p>Susan</p>