social life on campus

Emily2007
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:20:37 +0000

A lot of students do co-ops in Boston, and most students are still living on-campus/off-campus with NU roommates. But, it’s pretty common for people to do at least one co-op in another place, or to study abroad. You get used to having a friend or two every semester that isn’t in Boston, but it really won’t affect your social life too much.

Social life while on co-op is pretty much EXACTLY the same as while in classes… if not a little better. On co-op, you go to work in the morning and then around 5 you’re done, and you can go home and do whatever you want. Same with the weekends–rather than being busy with studying, you have only free time. Especially during finals (right now!) my friends are all sleep-deprived, stressed wrecks right now, while I’m on co-op and enjoying spending my free time doing whatever.

As far as maintaining freindships, co-op doesn’t really effect that. You’re still going to hang out with friends while on co-op, since like I said, your social life stays essentially the same. Sure, a friend or two might be gone for a semester, but that happens at “normal” schools when people study abroad.