Monster Island
Hey guys, we know it’s hard here at NYU. With an especially high percentage of women and an especially open gay community, it can just seem like you’re getting too much attention! Welcome Week offers a laundry list of absurd, useless-sounding events and seminars for Freshmen, and topping the list this year is “60/40: How To Be Male At NYU.” That is, it would have been a needless event to waste our freshman’s precious underage drinking time, if our freshman men didn’t earnestly ask questions like, “Do people really turn gay here?” Continue…
Today at 12:00 pm (3 hours ago) by Dan Rickmers
Just like clockwork, Apple made their annual fall iPod announcement yesterday. Steve Jobs announced a revamped the iPod line and Apple TV, an update for iTunes to version 10, and Apple’s very own music-centric social network: Ping.
iPod Shuffle
The fine product designers at Apple have apparently finally come to their senses and tossed out the terrible idea of a buttonless iPod shuffle in favor of bringing back the wheel from older models, while still making it as small as humanly possible. Other than that, the iPod shuffle is pretty much the same as always.
iPod nano
The new iPod nano is like some sort of hybrid of the shuffle and touch. The classic click wheel has been dropped in favor of a tiny touch screen – slightly larger than a watch face (can you say “most awesome watch ever”?). The built-in video camera that was just introduced with the last revision has already been removed, and in an odd twist, so has the once-heralded ability to play video, though the screen is too small to watch anything comfortably anyway.
iPod touch
For the first time, the iPod touch literally is an “iPhone without the phone”. Pretty much every feature (except the phone!) is here, including front and rear-facing cameras, so you can take photos, shoot HD video and participate in FaceTime chats with other iPhone 4 and iPod touch owners.
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If you live in Hayden and have yet to enter this little charmer, your time is coming. Actually, your time is probably tonight. By this point in Welcome Week, you’ve had a night or two of somewhat anticlimactic attempts at “clubbing,” because “that girl knows the promoter,” you’ve opened a few bottles of wine product (that horrid Juicy Juice equivalent sold in bodegas), and probably paid far too much for a single drink at Still.
So now what? Asian 289 (Bleecker St. & 7th Ave.), that’s what. A five-minute walk from Hayden, Asian is a cheap, somewhat grimy little bar that isn’t trying to argue that title.
Today at 10:30 am (5 hours ago) by Zoe Schlanger
NYU is not a cheap place to pursue higher education and New York City is by no means a cheap place to live. But now that you’ve forked over all that cash, there are actually a few redeeming financial qualities to student life — you just need to learn what they are. It took me three budget-busting years to accumulate the knowledge I’m about to drop in this post (alas, there was no NYU Local when I was a wee freshman).
Take 2-Credit Classes Every Semester To Graduate Early
You need 128 credits to graduate, the average student takes 16 per semester, but if you pay full-time tuition you are entitled to 18. Taking a statistics or a science class usually requires a supplement 2-credit lab, but otherwise take a 2-credit music or dance class (through Steinhardt) every semester and save $17,000 while you’re at it.
Use Your 10-15% NYU Student Discount
If you are around campus, it’s always worth asking whether the store you are patronizing offers a 10% student discount (many do, including Space Market and Famiglia Pizza). Flashing your NYU ID also gets you 15% off purchases at Topshop and J.Crew (discovering that earlier than junior year would’ve saved me more than graduating a semester early).
Unfortunately, towards the end of Welcome Week, NYU starts to slack. The programs during the day start to get a little weak, so start your day slow and wander over to Bagel Bob’s for a toasted poppy seed bagel with cream cheese.
Today’s tips and recommends: Continue…
Today at 8:00 am (7 hours ago) by Charlie EisenhoodMaddi’s Welcome Week Diary – Wednesday from NYU Local on Vimeo.
NYU Welcome Week is tricky. Some people seem to figure out New York living right away, others spend the first few days completely sober, trying to resist the temptation to call their parents every hour (guilty as charged. Advice to freshman: stick with it, it gets so much better). Here Maddi Gilje talks about her J-Sex introduction, one skeevy New Yorker (there will be more), and feeling a little uncertain (but not about Kimmel!).
Yesterday at 2:50 pm by Annie Werner
Class of 2014: you have now arrived on campus and to your dismay, are clearly appalled at how outdated and unreliable some of NYU’s most essential technologies are. Happens every year. Here are 5 tech-related tools that will improve your cyberlife at NYU. Continue…
Had any epic experiences yet? Good or (even better) bad, NYU Local is interested in reading about them. Upperclassmen and alums, we want to hear yours too.
Send us your best Welcome Week stories – failed hookups, doe-eyed freshman moments, run-ins with the law (you get the idea) – to nyulocaleditor@gmail.com. Bonus points for hilarity.
If we get any worth publishing, we will. They can be posted anonymously, if you insist, but we’ll need your name and graduation year to verify that you are/were an NYU student.
Yesterday at 12:00 pm by Charlie EisenhoodOne of the comics performing at tonight’s comedy show (which you already know you should go see) is Jordan Carlos, who has performed stand-up on Comedy Central and appeared as Stephen Colbert’s black friend, Alan.
Above is a funny, biting critique of the Obama administration starring Carlos. His stand-up clips on the Internet are quite good, but we don’t want to ruin jokes he might use tonight. So go check them out live in Skirball at 8 and 10 PM!
Yesterday at 10:00 am by Charlie Eisenhood
