<p>sheped, I lived in Third North Freshman year (and commuted for last year & this year) and yeah, it was awkward living with 1000 people and not really knowing them when you saw them in the elevators. One of my suitemates was in GSP and at first, I was like, “Oh, GSP is if you’re on the bubble to get into NYU” but the more she told me about it, I was so jealous! I was sitting in my 250 student Conwest class, and she had max 18 people in her classes. She really knew her professors and vice versa, which helps with recommendations and stuff.</p>
<p>Also, I know what you mean saying, “there’s a high chance you get a hostile reaction if you say that you don’t like broadway or drinking.” I was one of those kids that came into college with a few years of drinking under my belt, so I wanted all my new friends to drink with me. However, from drinking cheap vodka like 3 or 4 times a week and eating fast food AT LEAST twice a day, I got some kind of stomach acid problem by the end of the Spring semester, so I stopped drinking and eating crap. Needless to say, all my friends from Freshman year have since told me I’m “less fun” or whatever, because I only go out occasionally and have a beer or two, but I think you’ll find throughout college that it’s better to have friends you can do things with besides getting trashed, and you’ll grow apart very quickly from those who judge you based on your personal choices about drinking & drugs. I know, I sound like a parent, but I’ve experienced it over the past three years, and it is lame.</p>