<p>How is the weather during the school year? Does it rain frequently? Do you recommend bringing rain boots or water-proof sneakers should suffice? Are boots necessary? How high is the water from the rain usually? What about snow? Does it snow a lot and how high is the snow? Are boots necessary? Is it slippery?</p>
<p>its about the same as in the city except the weather changes more quickly since its further out into the ocean [ie. it will be beautiful outside in the morning, and then out of nowhere it will rain in the afternoon]. you dont really need rainboots. and as for snow… if theres a blizzard, theyll cancel classes.</p>
<p>typical long island weather. cold, rainy/snowy, dark (for most of the year)</p>
<p>Are classes canceled often? What about boots? At what time does it usually become dark?</p>
<p>You live in Brooklyn…lets be practical here…its not worth it to worry about any of this. You really aren’t that far from SBU to have any change in weather once you arrive here. It’s all the same as where you live now.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, you’re not moving to another country. I would just go into your experience at this school with a positive outlook, and you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Dude, you’re from Brooklyn. It’s the same exact weather there. You ever watch the news on TV? Ever look at a map? We’re thirty miles from you.</p>
<p>A lot of your threads seem really paranoid and freaked out. Relax; it’s college, not a federal penitentiary. The more you relax and roll with things, the better experience you’re going to have.</p>
<p>That said, for those who might read this thread who are not from the immediate area, Long Island is a pretty moderate place, temperature-wise. During the school year, it’s rarely going to get so blazing hot that you won’t be able to stand it, and it snowed enough to cancel classes a grand total of once (maybe twice) last winter (and only once the winter before that, and I know that because it was the week my wife was due with our baby). Boots are important because when it does snow, it’s usually slushy, mushy crap, and you’re going to do a lot of walking, because it’s college and that’s what you do.</p>
<p>Darkness falls the same time it does in other parts of our latitude around the world, but they recently fitted our campus with these new-fangled electric lights, so the number of incidents of students bumping into trees at night has greatly decreased in the past few years.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>I understand that I may be a tad paranoid, but that is because the living accomodations will not be ideal. I still do not know how one person, nonetheless 3, will be able to fit all of their stuff into the dorm room. It will be extremely cramped. I do not even know where I will put all of my clothes because there is no closet, just drawers. I will prob need to hang most of my jackets on the door.</p>
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<p>hahah, I wonder how your roomates are going to like that. But yeah, you can’t have everything under control and it is useless to fret over something you have no control over. Everyone I know already has their roomates, if you don’y have yours my guess is a letter/solar update is going to come anytime this week. Worry about the arrangement of the room once you get there, it is futile to ponder over it before actually being there.</p>
<p>Btw, I don’t go to stony brook but am considering transferring there next year from my current school. Nevertheless, my friend just told me he received a complimentary usb drive from sbu in the mail this week–I think these little gifts are a great way to please prospective students and get them excited about the school.</p>
<p>I wish I got a free usb drive. I have my roommates already, but I just don’t see how comfortable it will be share everything. Then again, I doubt it will be too comfortable.</p>
<p>frasifrasi, where are you transferring from and any reason why you are transferring? What is wrong with your current school, if i may ask?</p>
<p>blazinyan, I got denied housing, but I am trying to make the best of it with my off campus place. I will have to drive in everyday which obviously sucks, but I don’t have to share a room with anyone…which has it’s pros and cons.</p>
<p>If I get tripled next semester I might just pursue legal action against this school. SBU has screwed me in so many ways its not funny (housing, can’t register for classes on my own, no FWS award, etc.) and I have not even stepped foot on campus yet. The administration has a few gems, but mostly nobody has any clue what’s going on. The university is building a new housing section, but wait, it only has a couple hundred beds (or less) and there is an enrollment increase of around 1000.</p>
<p>Thankfully things are turning for the better, though.</p>
<p>I guess. I shouldn’t complain, but it seems to me that nearly all of my friends in other colleges have better living accomodations. That is why I am sort of complaining and asking how other ppl survived previously.</p>
<p>mainly the lack of diversity. I went to a public high school in ny, and now am at psu, where 85% of the student body is white and almost entirely from PA. Also, the OOS tuition is too high and the party environment isn’t my cup of tea. I don’t know if I will definitely go to stony brook, but it may very well come to that.</p>
<p>Well SBU definetly has the diversity, and the tuition is cheap as dirt…I would think those are very valid reasons for transfer. SBU also is NOT a party school, which I like personally. I am more of the studious, levelheaded type.</p>
<p>blazinyan, I remember that you wanted to transfer to Cornell, are you still going for that?</p>
<p>^that is the one thing that bothers about sbu; a lot of times when talking to some of the more hardcore(diligent) people from high school, they mention that they have plans to transfer from stony brook or wish they could go somewhere else, but I really have no idea if the atmosphere is anything like that once into the school year.</p>
<p>Well, there are always going to be the kids who complain, but do realize it’s the kids who make do with what they have that succeed. The atmosphere for science majors is competitive.</p>
<p>I don’t know. I have this yr. to decide. I’ll see how Stony treats me.</p>