<p>i live in a tiny town in the middle of texas and go to a high school iwth about 400 kids in it. total. i’ve always wanted to go to NYC and i went this past summer and i absolutly loved it. its so fast paced and just incredibly tall. and its so busy and the city lights and things are great. i’ve always wanted to go to college there.</p>
<p>but over halloween i went to UCSB to visit my brother. the students there seemed so laid back and it seemed like it was pretty easy for him to make freinds and like everyone was just laid back and not stuck up or anything even though they all had alot of money. it seemed like he had found freindly people like in texas but without the cowboyness.</p>
<p>now i’m confused. i have freinds in high school, but i don’t have any like best freinds and i really want to make alot of freinds in college and party alot and just make lifelong freinds. it seems like that would be hard in NYC? like there is no campus and i’m scared the people will be stuck up and rude or something. i have trouble just going up and talking to people but if they come up and talk to me i have no problem conversating with them.</p>
<p>so those of you in NYC who to go school. is it hard to make freinds? i really want to make freinds but i dunno how hard it will be. is it at all like UCSB in the social scene or am i better off going somewhere else even though my heart is in the city?</p>
<p>you wont have a problem if youre a girl. don’t worry about it, every year thousands of girls flock to NYC for the reasons you oultined. id think they do fine.</p>
<p>If you think that being from the city makes people unfriendly (which I don’t believe is true anyway), just keep in mind that the vast majority of people from the major NY schools (ie - Columbia, NYU) aren’t even from New York. People want to make friends wherever they go to school… By the way, which university are you considering in New York?</p>
<p>" like there is no campus and i’m scared the people will be stuck up and rude or something."</p>
<p>Columbia has a gated campus, unlike the vast majority of urban universities. Somehow they managed to buy up 6 contiguous blocks of land, like a hundred years ago.</p>
<p>NYU has a scattered typically urban-university campus, but I know some people there and they’ve made friends and are happy.</p>
<p>Oh, btw, I’m a friendly guy! 8)
Well, sorta. <em>snarl and claws at, nasty NYCer-style</em></p>
<p>and i’m looking into NYU but thats kind of a longshot and i’m still researching hte other universities around there. do u guys suggest anything for business/finanace or architecture?</p>
<p>As a proud New Yorker, I can tell you that you won’t find nicer people anywhere else!</p>
<p>New Yorkers rude? Getouttahere!</p>
<p>New Yorkers are always rushed, that’s true, and the rude reputation comes from when you’re running down Broadway trying to get to an important meeting and there’s a group of tourists in the middle of the street snapping away and you can’t get through and you’re late to your meeting and everything goes wrong and…argh, DARN TOURISTS</p>
<p>But if you’re on a subway train, looking at a map, don’t be surprised to hear “Need any help?”. Maybe it’s just because we love to talk but we’re always ready to help.</p>
<p>BTW, if you end up in NYC, PM me, I’ll give you some pointers about how things work, and don’t EVER let anyone sell you a slice of pizza for over 2 bucks.</p>