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If you guys want to know how to survive and do well in your first year at NYU and then you've come to the right
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and for those of you who are interested or
You know are going to apply to NYU then I wish you guys the best of luck
My name is Charlie and I'm currently a junior studying business at NYU and over the years
I've accumulated a good amount of
Experiences that I would like to share with you guys to make sure that your freshman year is going as smoothly as possible
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So it wasn't too long ago that I was a freshman at NYU and I have to say it was a bit of a rough
Transition for me to get you know when I first started NYU
So I'm here to give you guys any tips and advices to make sure you guys avoid those
Okay, so tip number one make use of Welcome Week and I'm pretty sure that you guys are still pretty excited about
You know getting this purple crisp idk Welcome Week is going to be one of your biggest
Highlights of your freshman year at NYU and that's because NYU has created over 500 events and programs for you guys to you know
Try out and attend to you guys know that it's impossible unless you guys make these shadow clones
Oh, so for this year for you guys?
I heard that there was a drag bingo lavender hunt and there's you know, these multi floral multi DJs and just dancing music part
It's all there
So go for it guys, if you guys are going to these with a bunch of friends
Whether if it's the people that you met in your dorm or you know high school friends, don't be afraid to meet new people
I know it sounds very intimidating all these new faces
But I feel like you know during the first two weeks of school
Everyone is very open to you know to meeting new people the sad truth. Is that after one to two weeks?
It's everything is going to die down. It's kind of hard to make new friends
After the first two weeks of school because everyone had already made their own
Friend groups they've already you know developed their own comfort zone. So
So make sure you guys attempt to these, you know
Fun events and activities make sure to you know participate in the group activities
You will hear a lot of hey, my name is Bob. Hey, my name is Sarah. Hey, my name is Jeff
Hey, my name is Joseph. Hey, my name is James. Hey, my name is whatever and they'll be like, oh, I'm from LA
I'm from New York City. I'm from Idaho. I'm from Wyoming. I'm from comes out. I'm from South America from Europe. I'm from London
I'm from whatever whatever right and
And everyone is going to be like yo, what are you studying and oh what major are you in?
oh and you'll be like
Oh, I'm studying this and that and you blow. What about you?
and then by the time by the end of the day
You're gonna forget the people that you met but make sure to have your phone out because everyone be like yo, which is snapchat
What's your instant with your Facebook?
Yeah, just expect that. I feel like you're you've already experienced about it's to talk but it's time
This video comes out. So so for tip number two making and maintaining friends during the school year can be
Slightly difficult if you don't try you guys must be wondering why do I have any friends?
Why can't I just go to college study get that GPA graduating get that job. Let me tell you college is
Intimidating it's overwhelming. It's stressful
You are independent and you have so much more
Responsibilities that you don't even expect having a group of friends can definitely make your college life
More bearable and enjoyable and it's always you know
Good to have someone to watch your back when you're in times of needs
You should expect to take four to five classes for each semester and for each class. You take it twice a week
So if you take the class intro to psychology, you'll be in a huge lecture hall with
300 other students and
Every time you go there there's no assigned seats
So you don't know who you're going to sit next to and if you see this girl, you know
a guy in the front row and be like that person is pretty cute right and you want to try to
Make friends, but it's hard because you are only going to see that person twice a week
So that's why you have to put a little bit more effort if you wanna you know
Make new friends during the school year and maintaining friendship is not going to be you know
entirely easy as well because your back and has used a person every day in the same class and you guys
You know get to chat, you know before class and after class
So that's why you have to put a little bit extra effort into you know, just planning lunch breaks
Grabbing dinner grandma, you know go attending to these club events together tip number three do the things you love
I know this sounds very generic, but it's very crucial in college
And while you have so many closing things that you can be part of so do take advantage of that
There'll be a club fair soon. Usually at the beginning of each semester
So do keep a lookout for that and if you join any of these clubs
You will definitely meet amazing and talented people who will share the same interests as you and why do I stress about?
Doing something that you love I told you, you know for college it's going to get stressful
sometimes you get so stressed that you need something to de-stress and
Sure, you can watch Netflix. You can sleep and do all that
But sometimes they don't necessarily help are some touching activities to take your mind off of schoolwork for me
I really enjoy customizing shoes and clothing. I actually have a few videos in my youtube channel
So you guys can go check it out
but what I take away from this is that it really helped me manage my time properly because because a little wanna balance out my
Academics and my hobby, so if I want to do both of them, then it forces me to you know
Be more mindful about my time and speaking of managing time
I'm not here to nag you guys because I'm pretty sure you heard about managing time from your parents teachers, whoever but
managing time is so
Crucial for college and I wish I learned this tip as early as possible
You guys have to make use of Google Calendar. So basically what you do is take your class schedule put it in Google
Color-coded and then you do all these other nice simple color coding of you know, whatever you have to do
for example breakfast lunch
study time from when to when meeting up with friends from when when it's going to help you so much because
Google there is very simple
You have been sponsored by Google anyway, but Google Calendar is very helpful because it's very easy to use very simple
We all use you know Gmail and stuff like that and it just we're very accessible and they give you these like nice
notifications so you don't miss out on anything and
speaking of Google Calendar
You just Google invite like honestly use Google if I'm sure you're not gonna study all day. So you definitely hang out with friends
So if you wanna hang out with friends
Right and you know that there are some friends who are not so reliable in terms of time
So why don't you just send them a google invite? I will show them the time place and
Google will you know basically send them on notification before they meet up with you?
So that would save you a lot of time from you know, texting back and forth
Dealing with you know flavors. I'm sorry. I'm late
Not being like it's a good thing
But yeah, it honestly does save you a lot of hassle and it will you know decrease the chance of you
You're missing any important meetings club meetings or internship or interview or anything?
Yeah now for a tip number five, I'm gonna save this for the middle, but I'm pretty sure you guys are just room
what about
Academics that's probably going the number one things on your list. So let's talk about academics
Okay, so that's up for NYU and all our other colleges is out of you know
4.0 GPA you guys appreciate you guys know that so for my you
last year, it used to be, you know a equals 4.0 a
minus is a 3.7 and
B pluses of
3.3 and a B is over 3 and so forth, but they recently changed it. So that that a is 4.0 a
Minus is a three point six six seven instead of a three point seven and for a b-plus
It's a three point three 53 instead of a three point three and classes are greeted differently
Like I'm stating the obvious, but they are graded differently
But for NYU student only 30 to 35 percent of the students for each class can
Get in the engi range and every more miles, maybe below the a range
So for example, if the class average is the 90 then then if you get a 90 then you'll get a beam
Nope, not a - not a b-plus Butterbean because the class average is a B. Okay. The class average is 90
But for some other classes outside of turn you would have to you know
get like a 94 or 95 or maybe higher in order to get that a so it really
Depends on the classes for most of you first years
You guys will have to take the writing the essay class or any introductory whatever writing class
But just be mindful that you know
Even though you may be so good at writing in high school because for this class you have to write
What the professor once so in order to do well in this writing class?
You have to get to know your professor
Well, you have to talk to them, you know go visit their office hours and just you know
chat with them the syllabus better get to understand on what they like to see in your
Papers and that is so important because if you write something that you you know, you really felt like it was a good essay
They might give you a different grade because it doesn't really correlate with the rubric that they give you
So make sure that you are super clear on that
Understand what your professor wants and if once you get that lay down then you can add in, you know
Your other ideas analysis and everything and for tip number six, right after academics is food
You know
That is important so I could the mix is important but food is important too so it comes right after it if you guys living
In a dorm with no kitchen, then you're forced to take my use
225 meal plan meaning that you will have 225 meal swipes and for each meal swap. It's
About eleven dollars like eleven dollars per meal swipe and I'm saying like, you know, and while your food is decent
But not the best you can definitely get better food for eleven dollars
If you do the map, it should cover you for the entire semester if you eat school food every single day
Three times a day but no one is actually going to do that
But unless you know if you actually use all of them by yourself
But on a semester then let me know actually freshman year. I you know eat a lot of food
I went to the gym, so I would you know use a lot of meals wives, but I still had like
70 meal swipes left
but now am I exaggerating but I did have a lot of new swipes left and
what you can do about those meal swipes is that you know, you can always give to upperclassmen because
Upperclassmen they will not be living in dorms. Like most of them will not be living in the dorms so you can you know
Just play yo, like you can get up with cosmic friends buy you're giving them your meal swipes
But you can always use those muse wipes at the end of the semester by you know giving
The food to the homeless NYU has a program for that. So just look out for that in addition to the 225 meal swaps
Dining Dollars are part of your meal plans and what Dining Dollars are actually, you know
Calculated in dollars, but you can't use that outside of NYU
So you can use these Dining Dollars to you know
Grab your coffee grab your breakfast at this NYU's slash Starbucks partnership
that is right across from
Washington Square Park
It's right across from NYU Stern as well. It's just around that corner and you can use it at the Dunkin donut at
University Hall which is at 14th Street Union Square and you can use this Dining Dollars size thing
so size thing is a convenience store, which is connected to Weinstein and
It's you know, it provides you with the basic necessities such as towels, you know shampoo soap
Toothbrushes. I
Don't know any allergy medicine medication and they have a huge variety of snacks and drinks. So check that out
It's pretty nice and convenient and for tip number seven. We're going to be talking about
warming and housing if your doorman keep your place clean
I know, you know when you guys fill out that doorman form, you'd be like, oh, what's your sleep schedule?
How messy of a person you are do you like I do, you know?
Do you wake up early? You like loud music whatever. You have to step out the small survey
It's kind of cute even though you might be matched with someone who is as messy as you it's always
Good to keep your room clean
Because why wouldn't you go back home from a day of class?
You're all tiring and everything and you go back to your dorm even like
This room is so clean. It's so nice is so fresh and in front of me as this
Well-made bed and another reason why you want to keep your room clean
Is that by the time you move out of the dorm and it's super messy
You will have to spend so much time clean that place up and if mess up anything, you actually have to pay for it
So why would you do that to yourself when you can, you know, keep it clean and just maintain the cleanliness
right, but every dorm you guys have like RAS, so they are the people who
Monitor, you know the floor you guys might see them as your authorities
You guys might seem s intimidating but at the end of the day
Their students just like you and they just wanna you know keep everyone safe and happy and you know
They don't bite just chat with them get to know them. They spend a lot of time planning things for the floors
So do you know hit them up once in a while, you know, they were feel appreciated
That'd be good for you. And that beaver for them tip number eight for parents
You know, it's really nice to hear a familiar voice from back home
colleges
Stressful and overwhelming, especially if you are in first year because it does take some time to adjust
You you're living in
like such a big city and it's very
Energetic so much things going on and you be here your friends talking about this and that and you have so many ideas to me
I getting up so many things to do and then you know, you came to NY you wanted to do pre-med person somehow
You know, you're like pretty about it's not the right path for me because I'm gonna die
So you want to just new and chill there's something more interesting something like, you know
Alright and then something you started out your interest and you'd be like, oh my god. What should I do?
Just take a breather
Call your family, honestly
They might be the ones who help you in tough times such as these and it doesn't hurt, you know
Keep you found me in charge in cinema 9 don't be afraid of taking classes that you find interesting
So that's what electives are for, okay
And while you're there really really flexible in terms of you know transferring to different majors
Don't be afraid to you know, very limited just explore, you know, talk to people join some clubs
Talk to some professors learn about what they teach if you generally feel very interested in this class or you know something
That you want to pursue and you can do as a minor major whatever you want. NYU is very
Flexible in terms of meetings though. There are some requirements for some majors
so for example
Like this is I know this personally because I intern or transfer to the NYU Stern
It was a pretty competitive process if you guys want to learn more about that
Maybe I might make a video in the future. Just let me know what you guys want to see
But yeah, don't be afraid to take all the classes that you find interesting and for tip number 10
This is tip number 10. Pay attention guys, it's College. You're not high school anymore
You are living by yourself. You're in a city that never sleeps
I'm not I'm not I'm not saying anything just have fun learn to have fun too. So
Well, anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this video
I hope that you know you guys learned something from my experiences my tips and my advices, you know
I'll be so happy if I was able to help adding some one of you guys and if you guys have any comments
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