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Since there aren't any suicides or drug deals, or even a millions-scamming student, to speak of - yet - at NYU, the NY Post decides to shake things up with an article about the NYU freshman life by an anonymous frosh Stern student. This reads like the email that you would write to your friends after your first week of college - "Oh my God, there are drugs! There is sex! Oh my God, we're just drinking! I'm so hungover!" - except Gothamist finds something charmingly naive about it. Some excerpts:
- I really need a fake ID.Yeah, good luck with that last one, because going to NYU is like living la vida loca! But Hayden does totally suck. At least he's not in one of the dorms off Third Avenue! We'll expect a letter from NYU spokesman John Beckman going out to parents to reassure them that the article was the product of muckrucking tabloid journalism!
-I have friends who live in University Hall uptown, and it's pretty boring. Everyone has their doors shut, and no one really socializes. I also have friends who live in Weinstein, the other freshman dorm, and they kind of hate it, too. It's more like a prison block than a dorm.
- Drugs are not hard to get in the dorms. They're readily available, and although I don't know anyone personally who deals, I've heard plenty of stories.
- At first, I was really intimidated by the library; I mean so many people killed themselves there last year. But now I think it's a good place to go and study and get away from the insanity of the dorms.
- I don't tell these stories to my parents. I'm pretty confident that I'm going to be fine. This place is like Las Vegas and Sodom rolled into one, and the best advice I've heard is to not get sucked into a 24-hour party lifestyle.
Do you miss your college days? Gothamist just feels really old when we see the NYU students on the street...where did our youth go?
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Our youth was pushed aside by our need to buy food and rent an apartment after graduation. Those needs will be pushed aside for youth in the future when we have earned enough to retire. Unfortunately, by that time we will be sick of youth because we have put up with it in our children. And then we'll learn bridge.
NYU: come for city, stay for the drugs. Go Violets! Err, I mean Bobcats!
Hayden has also had its share of sucides. Two of them in 1993. The only good thing about Hayden is that it is on campus. (If you call that a campus, personally I think it is a couple of buildings near a park)
How do you know about Hayden Jen?
Before I began college, aka I was in High School, I remember training it in from LI to see bands at the cool clubs of downtown, all around NYU (Irving Plaza before it was hip, cool or redone), the Bottom Line, and drinking at Phebe's and others, all with my fake ID and chance to hang out with the cool NYUers. I thought they were all so old and mature and cool.
Well then I came to study for college at Columbia and realized that they were "just like me." And now, when I visit my friends at their apartment on Sullivan & 3rd, and see all those teenyboppers looking clueless around the NYU campus, and even having guest lectured at NYU to undergrads, I realize how young they are and how old I've become...
Age and perspective are not mutually exclusive...but--I can afford to party better than those students and have full health insurance if I go overboard... ;-)
Oh how times change and yet, remain the same...
Fake IDs? Hmmph! In my day (i.e., late Dinkins and early Giuliani era), any fifteen-year-old could get served at bars all over the village, to say nothing of the outer boroughs (immune as they were to Rudy's formula of gentrification + law & order). These NYU students today, they don't know the meaning of Sodom and Las Vegas! Kids today, I tell ya. They don't know nothin'.
You out of towners all suck balls.
what an asinine piece of "journalism."
I miss college...
In my last visit to NYC, i went to Josie Woods Pub on Waverly & Bway to remember my old days.It was pretty crowded with drunk girls and drunken-noisy pseudo frat boys, they seemed pretty stupid for me, but i wonder if we were the same back in the old days ( i would like to believe not!!). Only one thing I know; I really miss the east village!!
I had those exact same observations when I moved here at age 28.
-I need a fake I.D. (so i can tell men that I'm still in my early twenties.)
-I have friends who live uptown. It's really boring.
-Everyone keeps their door closed and no one socializes at my office. It's more like a prison block than a job.
-Drugs are not hard to get at work. They're readily available, and although I don't know anyone personally who deals, I've heard plenty of stories.
-At first I was afraid of the White Horse because so many people killed themselves there, but then I realized it was a good place to get away from the insanity of midtown.
- I don't tell these stories to my parents. I'm supposed to be too mature for this. I'm pretty confident that I'm going to get sucked into a 24-hour party lifestyle.
These kids call this wild Sodom partying? Sad things. They don't even have real frat houses so frat boys and nerds can war with each other and have comedic movies made about it.
They should have been down at the University of Florida when it was voted America's top party school.
I went to NYU an innocent and by the end had rubbed a tranny's nipples for money.
A kid in my spanish class used to make me watch his bag because he'd have a couple grand in there from dealing.
Way too many dorm rooms had evidence of coke use. be it a powdery mirror, or way too many cut straws.
how boring. cards, drugs, porn, and television. then again, what do you expect from a business major. the article is pathetic.
Seiko still works the grill? I thought he left in '97.
Seiko still works the grill? I thought he left in '97.
Seriously? No, seriously? The NY Post is a rag, but they felt the need to bleed ink on this? OMG! Freshmen like to drink vodka and Captain Morgans! Someone needs a fake ID? This dorm is more boring than that dorm? Some Post editor just had his kid go off to college and felt they needed a few inches to expound on the obvious. Expected follow-up columns:
Hayden was great when I was there, and the dining hall food is only one of the reasons. I lived there for 2 years after living in Rubin for 2 years. Weinstein certainly felt like a prison, what with the cinderblock walls and all.
Since when is University Hall, on 14th Street, uptown? Sheesh.
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