In Defense Of Writing The Essay

May 9th, 2011 by Nicole He

Look, I know. If there were one single thing you could burn from the earth with the blaze of a thousand suns, it would be Writing the Essay. You fucking hate it. Everyone hates it. Just seeing the word “progression” makes you want to stab your face into a pulp, and the only purpose that the class could possibly serve is to haze you into entering a cold, cruel world. I know.

But I’m here to tell you that you are wrong. Writing the Essay is an incredible course, teaching you critical skills that can stay with you for a longer time than almost any other class you will take at NYU. Before I go further, though, I will say that the quality of this course depends almost entirely on your professor. I was fortunate enough to have the inspiring Bruce Bromley, whose guidance turned the Writing the Essay experience into the challenging, mind-bending class that it can be. If you haven’t taken the course yet, make sure you find a professor who is known to be amazing. Read more…


NYU Students Want To Have Sex Approximately 5.3 Times A Week

April 19th, 2011 by Nicole He


OkTrends, the brilliant stats blog of OkCupid, just put out 10 Charts About Sex, including one in which they compare college tuition and how often students want to have sex. The conclusion? “Generally speaking, the more your parents are paying for your education, the more horny you are.”

According to the chart, Columbia students pay more than us in tuition, and also only want to have sex about 5.25 times a week compared to our 5.3. That just proves that we are a better looking bunch, right? Right.


Your Roommate Horror Stories

April 5th, 2011 by Nicole He

Last year, I lived with a Tisch student who painted the lovely image you see on the left on my bedroom wall. She painted our living room two shades of fleshy ass-pink while I was studying abroad, and her boyfriend lived with us without paying rent. He was 44.

But I wasn’t the unluckiest person, it seems – having a terrible roommate story is an obligatory experience for all college students/NYC residents. We asked you for your worst roommate stories, and you delivered. Read and cringe below, and comment with your own. Note: This is the one NYU Local post in which you can comment semi-anonymously, but only if you have a hilarious story.

The Fapper

I had a roommate two years ago who would, in our double, start masturbating when I fell asleep. She apparently had an excellent vibrator because she was loud enough to wake me up. Luckily, she moved out pretty soon after because I didn’t provide a comfortable environment… or something. Which I guess means I would get pissed off when she would interrupt my sleep with buzzing and ecstatic screams…


The Sheet-Shitter Baby-Maker

Freshman year, I had the pleasure of living with five complete strangers. Surprisingly, the most rambunctious suitemate was the upper middle class white guy, who, several weeks into the semester, woke up to find that he had crapped himself in bed. Sadly, this didn’t wind up being an isolated occurrence. More sadly, he would bring girls back for action in that same bed…without changing the sheets or flipping the mattress. Most baffling, even after girls found out about it, they’d still throw themselves at him: he was slowly becoming a legend. The fact that he boasted to us of two upperclassmen having had abortions by his doing, thanks to his inability to finish while wearing a condom? Not even that was a deterrent. And yes, you read that correctly: he used condoms, but took them off when it mattered most.

Read more…


NYU Admissions Office Posts Adorable Video Welcoming The Class Of 2015

March 29th, 2011 by Nicole He

Back in my day, we found out that we got into NYU through legendary Big Envelopes arriving in our IRL mailboxes. It seems that the Admissions Office has stepped up their tech game a bit since then; last Friday, they not only pushed the button to send out emails notifying NYU Class of 2015 applicants on whether they got in or not, but they also made a cute Facebook video about it.

Check out their kind-of-adorable-kind-of-weird video above. And congrats, new kids!


NYU Finally Confirms President Bill Clinton As 2011′s Commencement Speaker

March 8th, 2011 by Nicole He

We hate to say we told you so, but NYU finally confirmed via press release what we reported two weeks ago – that former President Bill Clinton will indeed be NYU 2011′s commencement speaker.

The other recipients of honorary doctorates this year will be music mogul Clive Davis; Claire Fagin, Dean Emeritus of UPenn’s School of Nursing, and Ada Yonath, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The “Albert Gallatin Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Society” will be presented to NYU Law School alumnus Kenneth Feinberg, and the “Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City” will be presented to Shake Shack Mastermind Danny Meyer.

Here’s to hoping for a sweet sax solo to walk us out.


BREAKING: President Bill Clinton Will Be NYU’s 2011 Commencement Speaker

February 24th, 2011 by Nicole He

Get ready for a Presidential graduation, Class of 2011: our source heard from a top NYU administrator that former President Bill Clinton will be NYU’s commencement speaker this year.

NYU spokesman John Beckman said, “I’m not going to confirm or deny.”

No stranger to NYU, President Clinton has spoken here a couple times in the past year.

President Clinton will be at Yankee Stadium two years after his wife Hillary spoke for NYU’s 2009 commencement. With all this Clintonness, we can reasonably expect that 2013′s speaker will be current Wagner PhD student Chelsea.

UPDATE (3/8): NYU finally confirmed today that Clinton will indeed be this year’s Commencement speaker.

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Guide To Majors At NYU: Economics

February 15th, 2011 by Nicole He

Note: Whether you’re still deciding between two majors or you’ve already picked and want to know how wrong your choice was, you’ll undoubtedly find our new Guide To NYU Majors useful. We’ll be asking students in specific majors their thoughts on various aspects of their chosen field. This is the first in the series.

Major: Economics
School: CAS
Concentrations: Theory and Policy
Possible Joint Majors: Mathematics or Computer Science
Required Number of Classes: 10
Minor?: Yes

Economics seems to be one of those majors that people who don’t want to be doctors or lawyers but still feel like they need a “respectable” major flock to. It’s pretty popular because it supposedly affords a good deal of options for post-graduation employment, even though you might not actually use the things you’ve learned in your classes. There are two tracks: Policy, for the less math-inclined, and Theory, for the more math-inclined (and let’s face it – legitimate). It is perhaps the “hardest” of social sciences, with very little (if any) essay-writing, and tons of test-taking for understanding of concepts and mathematical problem solving. You’ll see below that Econ students at NYU have wide-ranging opinions on quality of classes and professor, particularly across the Policy/Theory divide. I’ve had awful professors, decent professors, and great professors in Econ, and the classes get far, far better the higher up you go. Read more…


Get Ready To Town Hall It Up With Sexton Tonight

February 8th, 2011 by Nicole He

Check out our coverage of last semester’s town halls.


Millennials Magazine Issue 2: Modern Love Is Live

December 15th, 2010 by Nicole He

Millennials Magazine, created by former NYU Local Editor-In-Chief Jessica Roy, Multimedia Editor Emeritus Rosie Gray and others launched their second issue today, titled Modern Love. The theme takes inspiration from a column in the New York Times, but intentionally updated for the millennial crowd.

“What you will find here are questions and arguments, searches for the meaning of intimate relationships in a time where closeness is more easily conducted in a chat window than in person, rather than conclusions about The Way We Love Now,” writes Founding Editor Kyle Chayka. “We don’t know how we love now. We’re not even sure we know how to love, much less do it online.”

Check it out – there are pieces on Taylor Swift, millennial parents, and long distance relationships. I have a poem(?) in there as well.


Mass Transit NYU Performs Cee Lo Green

December 15th, 2010 by Nicole He

Perhaps the most relevant NYU a capella video we can post right now in light of finals.


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