<p>Hi all! Just thought I’d quickly chime in. I’m a First Year at SLC and I absolutely love it! The donning/conference system is amazing and I found that the workload isn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I’m only writing about 2-3 pages a week for my FYS conference and then an additional 4-9 for my fiction writing course (it has a 4-page minimum requirement per week, but it’s not very bad. We also journal daily, but I don’t count that as writing). My FYS conference project for the end of the year only needs to be 12 pages long double-spaced, but most classes will be somewhere between 20 and 30 pages.
I’m also a language third, just started taking French this year, it’s incredible. The language programs are awesome here. You still conference (although for Beginning languages you only conference to go over grammar and speaking skills with two or three other students a week. Adv. Beginning and above write shorter conferences in the foreign language) and you also meet with a native speaker once a week for conversation. Sorry, I feel like I could bore you to tears over how much I love this school.
As for the weekend party scene: most people leave on weekends. Fridays can be hit or miss. Last weekend everyone left Friday night and there was not a party to be seen, this weekend, we walked through a couple just on our way home. Parties here tend to be pretty small 20-50 people. The campus is super empty on Saturdays, people study on Sundays. As for going into the city: most people take the train or the Met Bus to the city on weekends. You can also take a local bus to the Bronx and catch the subway into Grand for cheaper. I haven’t done that yet, but I’m actually going to go catch the Met bus right now. If you have any questions, let me know! I’d be happy to help!</p>