<p>dietrt, I’m really happy your daughter is having a good time! Yours is the only post in this thread that sounds at all like Stony Brook to me. I really don’t know what people are talking about with “cold and hostile”. I’ve met some fantastic people in my time here, from all different places and backgrounds–on Saturday night, I went out with some friends who included people from Ohio, Rhode Island, Brooklyn, upstate NY, Germany, Boston, NJ, Korea, Chicago, California, Long Island, and Virginia, with all different majors, religions, ethnicities represented, and all awesome in their own ways. We stayed up partying and then hanging out in someone’s apartment until the sun came up having a fantastic time. How can people say it’s dead on the weekends?!</p>