Currently in NYC
Well, I'm in Brooklyn staying with my Dad's girlfriend. Things have been...ok with her considering the fact that we're polar opposites and we've never gotten along in the 8 years they've been together.
Anyway while up here I visited NYU and have decided to cross it off my list of colleges. I mean it's a great school, but I can't really see myself going to school there right now. Plus there's also the fact that I've always wanted to live in Manhattan and so I have this glorified view of it. As I got to thinking I realized that New York is a wonderful city and I DO think it's the place for me...but it's not the place for me RIGHT NOW. In 5 years I can easily see myself living here, but at the age of 17 (yes, I'll still be 17 when I start college [God willing]) I think it would be difficult to be dropped here to live on my own. I feel like Pittsburgh and Evanston are more manageable for a girl out on her own for the first time, but New York is SO BIG. I can pretty much guarantee that if I end up at Carnegie Mellon or Northwestern I will be happy. I can't guarantee that with NYU. Who knows, maybe it would make a great graduate school for me? I mean, it's an impressive school based on its REPUTATION but honestly their presentation was the worst I've seen so far. It also seems like a very dog-eat-dog kinda university. I don't think I'm lacking in ambition, but I do think I'm lacking in the agressive attitude I would need to get noticed at NYU.
Living in New York City is fine when you're moving with someone else, but it's quite another to live alone in when you're still a teenager.
Anyway while up here I visited NYU and have decided to cross it off my list of colleges. I mean it's a great school, but I can't really see myself going to school there right now. Plus there's also the fact that I've always wanted to live in Manhattan and so I have this glorified view of it. As I got to thinking I realized that New York is a wonderful city and I DO think it's the place for me...but it's not the place for me RIGHT NOW. In 5 years I can easily see myself living here, but at the age of 17 (yes, I'll still be 17 when I start college [God willing]) I think it would be difficult to be dropped here to live on my own. I feel like Pittsburgh and Evanston are more manageable for a girl out on her own for the first time, but New York is SO BIG. I can pretty much guarantee that if I end up at Carnegie Mellon or Northwestern I will be happy. I can't guarantee that with NYU. Who knows, maybe it would make a great graduate school for me? I mean, it's an impressive school based on its REPUTATION but honestly their presentation was the worst I've seen so far. It also seems like a very dog-eat-dog kinda university. I don't think I'm lacking in ambition, but I do think I'm lacking in the agressive attitude I would need to get noticed at NYU.
Living in New York City is fine when you're moving with someone else, but it's quite another to live alone in when you're still a teenager.