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NYU Program board is the best thing since the wheel. Joining a club is the easiest way to make new friends and is also fun

i'm part of the nyu program board, it's great. there are lots of great people and opportunities to plan events. the social life is kind of boring here, i go party with friends from home, which is close.

The best club at nyu? Program Board. We put on basically every event on campus. If we're not orchestrating it, we're usually at least co-sponsoring it. A lot of good people and a lot of free food. This year I got to go to SXSW as a representative of Program Board and it was one of the best experiences ever. Definitely a lot of perks to joining and a lot to learn if you're interested in concerts, music, lectures, writers, visual art, performance art, and other fun events.

The club is definitely Program Board. You help organize the most interesting events on campus, and you can get into them for free. The fraternity/sorority scene is understandably small as there are no houses really. People who are in them seem to like them, but it probably takes a certain mindset.

School-sponsored activities do attract a sizable amount of students, but a good portion of NYU-ers pretty much ignore any school activities in order to take advantage of NYC itself. It's hard to compare a school play with a Broadway show (although with the quality of students that our programs attract, it's not unusual to see an NYU student in a Broadway show, or a major movie, for that matter). Fraternities and sororities do exist here, with plenty of people, but they sort of form their own clique. Most people I know barely go to frat parties or any Greek events. If I'm up at 2am on a Tuesday here, I'm either struggling through a long ass paper or out at one of the million clubs and bars.

Athletics are the way to go. You meet new people, you get to hang out with older people who know the best bars, the places that dont card and even let you borrow their fake id when you go out, saving you the $150 it would probably cost to buy one yourself. And the Athlete parties are the shit, considering the school basically pays for then with meal money. And you spend 7 days a week at coles or palladium so you are going to work off everything you drink the next day anyways. so yeah the first couple of weeks suck when you consistantly have a hangover at practice, but you get used to it. We may be Division III for most sports but it really is the best combination of athletics and a social life one could ask for.

Running cross country in the fall was the best choice I've ever made. My best friends are on the team and it kept me in shape after being really active in sports in high school. The girls are awesome and we go out together all the time. Having people who have been around and know where to go is also very convenient; they show you places you definitely wouldn't have stumbled upon with other freshman. They show you the bars with the cheapest drinks, the best grocery stores, and just, in general, teach you how to get around.

Washington Square News is really popular, and so is the Academic Achievement Program. I did Alternative Spring Break this year and it was a lot of fun. I met some great people and had a really meaningful and enlightening break.

I don't actually know anyone who participates in greek life, nor where any of the frats or sororities are, so I think unless you're in one, it's not a big part of your life. Athletic events are not popular. They have to give away free T-shirts and food to get people to attend. I met my closest friends my freshman year dorm through a program called Explorations, which involves taking excursions together and in our case, taking a class together (that was required anyway). Partying is up to you; you can do it as often or as scarcely as you desire.

the most popular organizations are usually performance oriented. No one really goes to athletic events. Theater is popular. There really is no dating scene, just hooking up, especially if you're a straight girl..you're pretty much out of luck. The gay boys dominate. People party a lot, but not in the traditional college dorm party way. There's tons to do off campus, with and without drinking--shows, concerts, etc.