Lulls And LOL’s: The 25 Best Things To Do Between Finals And Graduation

May 16th, 2013 by Melissa Cronin and Sophia Melas

Graduation is fast approaching! But never fear—there are still six full days before D-Day. So, seniors, this is your moment to fully bask in your NYU-ness, enjoying all the best things about our little slice of the Village, without the worst – homework, tests, pesky professors. We here at NYU Local want you to enjoy your weeklong lull before graduation as a carefree millennial with days to fill and drinks to imbibe. So we’ve compiled the 25 best ways you can spend the next week. It’s never too late to have some lol’s in your lull.

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Don’t Sell Your Graduation Tickets

May 1st, 2013 by Melissa Cronin

As graduation approaches, we seniors are feeling a lot of emotions. We’re feeling excited to start a new chapter (with or without a job). We’re feeling liberated at the thought of no homework, no deadlines, and no stumbling out of Bobst as the sun rises, bleary eyed and confused about why the morning is attacking your exhausted, baggy eyeballs. We’re also feeling nervous about adulthood, joblessness, and that horrible, horrible place: the REAL WORLD.

Graduation day is a day to take all of these feelings and shove them in a deep, dark corner of your consciousness – the same one that holds the memories of your first kisses, the time you fell asleep on the subway for four hours , or the cringe worthy outfits we wore on the first bright-eyed day of NYU. It’s a day for celebration and acceptance – a moment to take everything you’ve accomplished in the past four years and wrap it in a big fat red bow, slap some purple glitter on it, and parade it around for grandma, grandpa, and the entire 38,391-person student body to see.

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Which Of These 15 Activities Should Be Our New Senior Tradition?

April 16th, 2013 by Aaron Marks

Graduation is five weeks away (Yes, you read that right) which for seniors means it’s time to prep the Kleenex, pack your bags and get ready to move into mom and dad’s basement! Before we depart our fair institution, however, many of us would like to leave our mark. In lieu of the long-retired Washington Square Pool Party, we must begin a new tradition. Here are our proposals:

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Your 2013 Graduation Tickets Open Thread

March 25th, 2013 by NYU Local Staff

If your giant family is coming to New York in May to see you graduate and you need a couple of extra tickets, NYU Local has your back. If you’re looking for tickets, or your family hates you and you need to give yours away, leave a comment explaining exactly what side of the fence you’re on. Offering money for tickets probably isn’t a bad idea. Especially if you offer us a cut.

If you have extra tickets, please let us know. Help out your fellow seniors!

Be sure to use your full name and real email address so we can approve your comment. It’s our comment policy. You can gift, trade, barter, and sell any tickets — school or all-university. Go for it! Advertise sexual favors. Make your parents proud.

To keep the thread manageable, we’ll be deleting comments from people who have found/sold their tickets. If you are being bombarded with emails and want us to delete your comment, just send us an email at tips (at) nyulocal (dot) com. Read more…


The Value Of Writing A Thesis

May 10th, 2012 by Sharon Wu

Right before the last year of college, every undergraduate at NYU is given the chance to compose a senior honors thesis. The opportunity is usually optional, and application requirements vary by department and school.

The prospect of writing a thesis is pretty daunting and many reject the option in favor of a more relaxing senior year. It is indeed true that a thesis will absorb the vast majority of your free time, particularly during second semester.

A thesis demands immense dedication, an enormous amount of independent research, late night writing when you’d rather be sleeping, and weekend work when you’d rather be drinking. There were many nights when I, and most of my fellow thesis writers, desperately regretted writing one. My thesis was, without a doubt, the most challenging assignment of my academic career. Regardless of school or major, a thesis requires a lot of independent decision-making without much guidance. Advisers offer some help, but the biggest decisions are up to you.

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A Senior Bucket List

May 8th, 2012 by Ian Hartz

Many of you may be in Bobst right now, slaving away on what will be the last paper or final of your undergraduate career. With the end of an era looming over head, we still have a few more days of the best four years of our lives. To ensure that you maximize the fun and crazy things you can only do under the moniker of a college student, we’ve compiled a bucket list for then end of your senior year. As a second semester senior, this is the one time when being drunk every day is not only acceptable, but encouraged. So blow off your papers, procrastinate like your studying it in Gallatin, and check some items off of our “fuck it” list.

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So if you can’t be flippantly irresponsible because you actually do need to turn something in to ensure that you graduate, then you should have fun while doing it. Fill up your water bottle with your elixir of choice and hit the stacks. Ernest Hemingway said it best: “Write drunk; edit sober.”

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Here’s Your Graduation Tickets Open Thread

March 29th, 2012 by NYU Local Staff

If you’re looking for tickets, leave a comment explaining exactly what you’re looking for. Offering money probably isn’t a bad idea. Especially if you offer us a cut.

If you have extra tickets, please let us know. Help out your fellow seniors!

Be sure to use your full name and real email address so we can approve your comment. You can gift, trade, barter, and sell any tickets — school or all-university. Go for it!  Read more…


Seniors: Graduation Is Coming; Here Are The Things You Need To Do To Prepare

March 28th, 2012 by Ian Hartz

As graduation approaches, tickets need to be reserved, graduation gowns ordered, and celebratory dinner reservations made. Here, we’ve tried to streamline this process for you seniors so that you have time to enjoy the rapidly improving weather and your last few weeks as an NYU student.

Firstly, you should reserve tickets for NYU’s 180th Commencement guest speaker Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Each student can reserve up to four guest tickets and one candidate ticket, but be sure to do it before May 4th. You can reserve them online. And to all of y’all partiers who were going to try to sneak in some funky juice, be warned that they do not permit liquids other than factory-sealed water bottles of a size of 1 liter or smaller. They also don’t allow iPads, video cameras, and other various items. Tickets will be available for pick-up from May 8th to May 15th at Coles.

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