<p>Almost everything milkandsugar and MOMMY5 have said is right (although I didn’t live in an apartment style dorm my freshman year so I don’t know what that’s like), but NYU community tends to be different from school to school. Tisch, where MOMMY5’s theater major daughter would be in, is very different from Stern. Possibly the two NYU schools most different from each other. Theater majors also have practice 8 hours a day with other theater students so it’s easier to find your own community there.</p>
<p>And I can’t really do anything about the fact that I was born with an introverted personality. You might not have many of the social problems that I had if you’re very outgoing. I think I made this clear. But other things I said in the OP, like the professionally obsessed Stern culture and competition, still hold true.</p>