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- A typical day for me looks like
hopping out of bed around seven, 7:30,
grabbing some food, a cappuccino
and a lot of coffee throughout the day.
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And then going to a couple classes,
catching up with friends,
and then at nighttime there's a bunch of
really, really cool restaurants,
some really cool speakeasy
type places and lounges
that you can check out.
Of course, NYU is based in the
Lower East Side of Manhattan
which is where all the really
like cool, hip places are.
There's kind of this endless supply
of these great places to go to.
Hi, I'm Jennifer.
I'm from New Zealand and
I'm studying here at NYU.
I'm an Economics major
and I'm double minoring
in Business at Stern
and Art at Steinhardt.
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This was one of the
original buildings at NYU.
I think it used to be
called the Main Building
before NYU kind of exploded
to have all these different campuses
and so many buildings
around Manhattan island.
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I'm a sophomore, so that means
I don't have to have a roommate,
so I grabbed that chance.
My roommate last year was great,
but I'm coming home from the library
at all various times of the night.
I have a kitchen, a
bathroom, a little desk.
This building pretty much has
everything you need downstairs.
There's two study lounges,
one for silent studying,
there's like six Mac
computers there as well.
There's places where
musicians can practice
like playing the piano or singing.
There's also a really
cool little games lounge.
It's right on Bowery as
well, so it's in the center
of the Lower East Side of Manhattan,
which is where a lot of the quirky cafes,
a lot of the quirky restaurants are
which I've just been loving.
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I would say I chose
economics, to be honest
because I wasn't sure exactly what
I wanted to do when I graduated.
I think that economics really opens
a lot of different doors.
So, when you do decide what you want to do
you're not limited too much.
You can go into consulting, finance,
or entrepreneurship, there's
a pretty big range of things.
The networking opportunities
here are insane.
If you want to work at
any of the big banks,
there's some awesome
networking events here
because of course a
lot of the headquarters
of the big banks, or the
big consulting firms,
just any kind of company that's global,
the chances are the headquarters
are here in Manhattan.
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Seriously, the opportunities
are next to unlimited.
Really whoever you want to meet,
there's probably some sort
of avenue to meet them.
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NYU has, because it's such a big campus,
and everyone's looking
for ways to get involved
and meet people, NYU has
heaps and heaps of clubs.
I think there's like
300 clubs or something,
and we have clubs for literally
everything you can imagine.
We even have a cheese tasting club.
I'm personally in the running club,
and we meet twice a week.
We do strength training
on Mondays at 6:15,
which is a little bit
brutal especially 'cause
it's not super close by, but
then we just run around here
as well, so this is
Washington Square Park.
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The culture here is amazing,
so we have performers
here with full jazz bands
and grand pianos, amazing artists.
Humans of New York actually
shoot here a lot as well.
The culture here is pretty incredible.
It's quite fun to just
sit here and hang out,
and there's always something going on.
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I'm actually a really
big fan of street food.
Every morning I get street food.
The dining halls here are
actually pretty solid, too.
I know some people don't like them,
but I heard there was
this rating the other day
that NYU has some of the best dining food,
and I would agree with that.
This is Weinstein, it's
where I stayed last year.
There's actually four dining halls here.
They're a little bit
hard to see from here,
but there is a Jewish dining hall,
which is all Kosher food, and then there's
a small food court just there,
so it's got Jamba Juice,
it's got like a Subway
equivalent, like a Chick-Fil-A,
and a bunch of other things like that.
In downstairs, which is
where we're going now
to grab lunch, is the main dining hall.
I'm good, how are you?
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The plan all throughout
high school was never to
actually go to an American university.
It was only after I
finished IB that I kind of
started thinking about it, and
a lot of it really was just,
my dad had this idea.
He was like, "Oh, I mean,
you finished your exams well,
and so now you know you have this option,"
which we hadn't even really thought about.
I wasn't really sure about it, I was like,
"I'm more than happy going
to Auckland University."
That was kind of always the plan,
but then he dragged me along to this
American universities expo,
and then I just fell in love
with the idea of studying away.
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Something that I found so
surprising when I was coming here
to NYU, or after being
here for a year or so,
is just the incredible
backgrounds and diverse places
that people come from, so I
think in just in my cohort alone
there was like 96 languages spoken.
What's so great about such
a diverse pool of students
is that you can really,
like there's not a lot of
judgment here, so you can
just really be yourself.
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It's the center of the world here,
and I definitely feel mixed into that.
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There's so much opportunity
here, it's really hard
to not just grab as much as you can.
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