NYU vs BU

Anybody have an opinion on which university they think is better? New York University or Boston University? I've been accepted into both, and now I have to decided on which to attend.

I personally like NYU better. They seem more serious and businesslike. Boston University does come off as friendlier. Hmmm... But I like New York City better than Boston. I also like the housing better at NYU. I'd say they're pretty equal when it comes to academics, although I've been told that a lot of rich kids go to BU and they take classes at Harvard. BU has a real campus, where as NYU is really in the middle of the city (which I like better). Hmmm... Hard decision...

I went to columbia and I loved living in NYcity. I was there for a year but I will never forget it.

Thanx for your responce, James... And I think I'm going to stick with NYU. I've had this thing about wanting to live in the city since I was four... (I wanted to be an artist 😛)

Go Morgan!

I've been feeling really really really bad and extremely stressed out the past few days. I just got my financial aid package back from NYU, and they're not giving me anymoney. They told me to get a job and take out a forty thousand dollar a year loan. My parents can hardly pay for the figgin bills as it is, and I knew there was no way they were going to help me finance this expidition. My parents were really rather annoyed, and my mother was contenting herself with the "I told you so" while saying I should have gone to BU all along. Yiksht!!! Hey, can I get a little positive support here please— Anyway, it hasn't over the last few weeks been a very happy situation while I try and decide what the hell to do with the rest of my life.

But I think I've finally decided, or at least come up with a pretty good outline.

I went to NYU today for open house... I went with Gwen. We got lost and wound up walking in circles quite a few times, but we eventually oriented ourselves... It was great, I love being there. Because I am within the top ten percent of my graduating high school class, I could have gone to community college for free, that's my first two years of college for free. But I doubt very much I could survive yet another two years here.

I've had a revelation. Some things are worth their cost. I figure you have to think economically. Firms will invest until the point where the estimated returns equals what they put into the investment, and the same thing works in this situation.

I think everything has suddenly begun to catch up with me, as if before I've been living in some fantasy world. I realize now that these decisions are ones that in the end only truly affect me, so they can only tuly be mine. I realize now that my mindset in the past has been completely incorrect, that I've been thinking things through incorrectly and been doing things for all the wrong reasons. I think I just cared too much about what my family cared about and not enough about what I really cared about.

But since I'm the one with the 30 year student loan, I'll do what I want. I've wanted to live in NYC since I was five, and as much as my parents (well, really my mother) don't really want me there and do their very best to convince me out of it, this is what I want, and I have perfectly valid reasons.

It's interesting really... I feel my life is like one big poker game... My life before now has been the part where you change your cards if you want to, but now's the part where you raise the bets... It's a gamble, let's ride the horse and see how far it will take us... But you know, I feel pretty confident that I can pull everything off.

And a confident poker player is one who either wins with a good deck, or wins by a good bluff, but either way they win in the end.

So I'm happy now. Sometimes you really have to think you may be forced to do something else to make you realize what it is you really want to do, but I understand now, and my time now is better spent filling out scholarship applications rather than worrying.

By the way, if anybody wants to know what my plans are, I intend to double major in Economics and English (with a focus in writing) and a minor in psychology. Then I intend to get my masters right away at the Stern school of business. If I'm lucky and I make connections early by doing internships, I'm hoping to find a jop by the second year in grad school (a lot of the professors who teach there actually also work in a lot of the firms in the city, and they like to hire from among the students, plus firms in general like students from that school, because most of the people hiring were from there too, and it's just all around a nice situation). Hopefully the company I work for will agree to pay for the rest of my grad school (this happens all the time). And then after that the idea is to make it rich and pay off all the debt I will have accumulated in college.

This is great Morgan if you major in English you may be able to speak the language when you come to visit. Just jokeing

lol james... I actually can't wait to do the away program to london... They have a summer creative writing program which I'm really excited about.

You are absolutely right to follow your dreams, Morgan...parents do tend to be practical and worry-worts...but, your future is yours and yours alone...nurture it with your dreams!
You Go, Girl!