What's life at nyu like?

hellodocks
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:34:29 +0000

The beauty of it is that you can make your own experience exactly what you want it to be. It’s that simple.

I didn’t party once my frosh year. Not once. There are dorm parties, but it’s hard to get away with because the RAs are everywhere, a lot of buildings have FFiRs scattered through them, and the walls are too thin. There are frat parties. We have penthouses in Laf that everyone in Greeklife gets to go through a lottery for each year, and some fraternities host parties there.

Most of the time Greeklife is just a conduit into exploring the nightlife. Pike has a couple kids who are promoters who host stuff virtually every weekend at different venues across the city. There are mixers every now and then, but some fraternities don’t like the sororities and vice versa.

You’d also be surprised at how wild it can get though. I’m laughing at a lot of the people who say NYU doesn’t party hard. It’s simply a different ‘hard’ than state schools. You won’t find tailgates or dorm parties or a rager at an actual house on fraternity row … but some nights are absolutely ridiculous. See this (- YouTube): I know literally half the kids in this. The funny part, it wasn’t even the best parties that weekend because they didn’t let Shmacked come into the Saturday or Monday night parties because they didn’t want it on film.

There will be some incredibly wealthy kids. There are also a ton of incredibly modest means as well. If you’re uncomfortable around people who brag about or flaunt their money, don’t associate with them. If you don’t like poor people, don’t hang out with them either. You can literally do whatever you want. If you want to closet yourself inside and never be anywhere except your classrooms, bedroom, Bobst, and Starbucks … you can do that. If you want to be a fratstar (you came to the wrong school), you can rage nightly. If you want to take only 3 classes a semester so you have tons of free time to see absolutely everything in the city you want to, you can. I know people who are literally each of those, and they’re all happy.