<p>I’ll comment for my D since she doesn’t frequent this site.<br>
She’s loving life at Pace University. Her dorm room is located in the same building as most of her classes, while a couple of classes are in a building right across the street. She’s a big fan of convenience! Her voice lesson requires a subway ride, though, and she enjoys traveling once a week to a different area of town for that.
She likes all of her classes and the professors teaching them. Most of them are “really cool” or “awesome”. Her ballet instructor is “incredible!” She only has dance in her schedule one day per week, but is free to audit other classes, and she does.
She has one academic class this semester, a learning community requirement, which is actually 2 related courses, taught by 2 different professors, and that class is 5 hrs per week. The only other non-artistic class this semester is a required University 101. She’s happy with the amount of academics currently required, but anxious to be able to explore interesting electives in the future.
She loves NYC and has seen 5 Broadway shows since the start of school, thanks to student rush and ticket lottery. One show, Equus, was seen with her acting group in place of class that day.<br>
Inside the Actors Studio is taped at Pace, and she’s looking forward to the first taping when the guest will be Daniel Radcliffe. Students at Pace receive 2 tickets to the tapings.
The MT dept is a tight knit, friendly group, creating a nurturing, family-like environment. My D feels like individual attention and the idea of cultivating each student’s individual gifts and talents is the focus of the program there.
Freshmen are allowed to audition for shows, and she is excited about getting to participate in one this semester.
Pace is located downtown, and she loves being in walking distance of so many interesting places. Chinatown and Little Italy are just a few blocks away. The Brooklyn Bridge is right outside her door. The Southstreet Seaport is a couple of blocks away, and like every other area of Manhattan, any convenience that you want or need is right there…pharmacies, groceries, Starbucks!, Bed Bath and Beyond!..it’s really a terrific area to live in. We have been told that police/security presence is more evident there than any other part of town because of the close proximity to the WTC site, the Court House, and the Federal bldg. It feels very safe there. We’ve observed the abundance of families in the area. Many, many young couples with strollers indicates an area that is becoming more and more desireable to live in.</p>