<p>Another thing, some people get intimidated initially by the size of the campus.
Since you have friends there, suggest you get them to help you with what I did when D2 expressed concern about this.</p>
<p>Print out a map of the campus.
Then, since you’'re not interested in frats or sports, have your friends rip off those area from the campus map.
You’re not interested in the Hotel school or engineering, have them rip off the area from the engineering quad through the hotel school.</p>
<p>You’re no farmer,rip off everything on the ag quad above Martha van Rensselear.</p>
<p>You’re not an upperclassman, rip off West campus.</p>
<p>What’s left, basically the stretch from Martha Van through the Arts quad to Williard Straight Hall, is the fraction of the campus you actually need to care about, initially. That part isn’t really very big. Yet the rest of the campus leaves new vistas to explore in the future, </p>
<p>Yes it looks big intitially, but in practice people are successfully navigating the campus (or the part of it they need to navigate) with no problem within a week.</p>
<p>And the new vistas are preferable to getting bored at a little campus.</p>