If you’re a member of NYU’s class of 2019, you’re about to move into your Greenwich Village dorms and begin Welcome Week. It’ll probably be one of your most exciting, terrifying, fun, intimidating, eye-opening weeks of your life to date, if not simply because it’s your first week at the coolest university in the most exciting city in the world. Before you begin to stress, just remember one simple fact. No matter how cool and put-together the upperclassman seem, we’ve all been in your freshman shoes before, and we know exactly what you’ll be asking during Welcome Week:
- Am I gonna get mugged if I wear the lanyard they gave me?
- Should I leave my door open while I’m unpacking? Is that inviting or weird?
- What’s the difference between Dining Dollars, Meal Swipes and Campus Cash?
- Are the people I just ate lunch with going to be my lifelong friends?
- Did Dylan and Cole Sprouse graduate already?
- How are kids on my floor already club promoters?
- Is it bad that I already locked myself out of my room?
- Wasn’t there a movie filmed right outside my dorm one time?
- Do people go to Welcome Week events?
- Is every upperclassman as friendly as the Welcome Week leaders?
- How do I pronounce Bobst?
- Why does everyone in the library look so serious?
- Do people actually check books out from the library?
- Should I buy the books on my book list?
- What even is our school mascot?
- Is it true there’s no Greek life on campus?
- Should I join a club?
- How do I join a club?
- Am I gonna make any friends?
- Both of my roommates have a friend. Why don’t I have a friend yet?
- Will my roommates think it's uncool that I still wear my retainer?
- Will my roommates think it's uncool if I call my parents?
- Do cockroaches really live forever, or should I try to kill the ones in the laundry room?
- Do you think I could go all semester without doing any laundry?
- Why is every other person I meet from California?
- Why is every other other person I meet from New Jersey?
- Upstein? Downstein? Sidestein? How many ‘steins are there?
- Which has better cookies: Hayden or Downstein?
- How many Downstein cookies should I eat before I start looking for the gym?
- Why does everyone wear so much black?
- How is it so hot outside and so cold inside the NYU buildings?
- Am I on campus or off campus right now?
- So the park is like a quad right?
- Is it weird if I wear my bathing suit and splash around the fountain in Washington Square Park? Is that unsanitary? All those little kids do it right?
- How big of a squad can I gather to go to the Welcome Week dance?
- Should I let them take pictures of me for the NYU Welcome Week’s Facebook page?
- Is every week in New York going to be this crazy?
Yes it is. And you’re going to love every minute of it.
