When most people picture their college experience, they imagine themselves strolling around a green campus filled with trees and old buildings. If that’s what you’re going for, great, but if not school in NYC might be for you. Here a few things that makes campus life a little different here in the city.
1. Frat parties? What are those? Here at Pace, we don’t really have the space for frat row. Going out to us means roof top parties in midtown or trekking deep into Brooklyn.
2. That cute guy you just passed probably works on Wall Street. Living in the FIDI means when were walking around campus we’re sharing the streets with some of Wall Street’s best instead of sport superstars.
3. Morning trips to the cafeteria turn into bagel runs across the street. Living in the city means you’re surrounded by some of the best restaurants (and bagel places), which means skipping the caf and enjoying all the food the city has to offer. It may also mean eating bagels three days in a row.
4. Twenty Minute walks across campus? No thank you. When your campus is only a few blocks you don’t have to walk more than five minutes. If you have to walk twenty minutes, you’ll probably hop the subway instead.
5. On campus housing is better than any other apartment you’ll live in. Normally when you go to school you live in a crappy dorm or on campus apartment and then after school move into a much nicer place. Here in NYC your on campus living situation will probably be nicer than any apartment off-campus you can afford.
The word campus has a very different meaning for NYC schools. Our campus is the city. That’s not just something cheesy that every NYC college uses in their brochures. It’s actually true.