My Experience: Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts | 10 Years Later
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2023
- I attended Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts almost a decade ago and wanted to give my thoughts on the school and going to college in New York City that might still be helpful to incoming students.
tysm Loved this!!!
Thank you for this video 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I feel you answered so many questions I was thinking of
and I'm Glad you had a Positive Experience 💖💖💖
Im Applying for fall semester 2024
but as a Older Student starting their Academic Career
completely over . .
So im nervous on what that will be like or if ill even be Accepted.
High Hopes, but still going for it Anyhow
Thank You again for this Video
and Congratulations on Graduating
and Still D'J-'ing thats Super Cool to me
God Bless in Jesus Name
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Happy to hear that and congratulations! The New School is honestly such a great school for "older" college students because you can have a life outside of "campus." Also, you can choose to take classes at different schools under the New School umbrella, I took tons of classes at Parsons, Mannes, and the Continuing Ed & Professional Development classes, which aren't exclusively undergrad programs. The age range for most of my classes after Freshmen year was very wide, with people in their 40s and 50s!
I also applied for Fall 2024 and I’d be starting as a freshman as a 21 year old… we got this!
do you feel that there is a strong sense of community within the alumni.
I would say there isn't much community baked into being a student here, but if you put in the effort building a community, you will find like-minded, passionate, ambitious, wonderful people. I'm still very close to many of my friends from the New School and while I wouldn't say going to the New School will automatically create a bond like if you went to Harvard or were in a Greek house or something, I do bump into people I've had classes with and reconnected over the years.
TDLR: no, unless you put in the effort to build one.
is it easy to make friends at lang?
hows the lgbtq dating/community scene?
Making friends was easiest when I lived in the dorms Freshmen year, and I definitely made an effort to invite people from classes who I liked to hang out or work on projects together. I know a lot of people who transferred in found it harder to make friends on campus because a lot of students will just pack up and leave right after class and not mingle.
The problem with NYC being your campus is that people tend to keep to themselves and have lives outside of school. I think it's harder to make friends than a traditional campus, but when you find people you vibe with, they'll be lifelong friends, at least that's been my case.
There was a weird phenomenon freshmen year, about half of the people I made friends with either transferred out or dropped out, so I lost a bunch of friends because they didn't like living in NYC or didn't like Lang.
Lang is totally LGBTQ friendly! We had this terrible joke about how a lot of people would come out as gay by May (it was 2010), and honestly it was true. It was actually super awesome to get to witness all these kids who grew up in really conservative places blossom and feel safe enough and accepted to love who they really were, and find love!
Hope this was helpful and best of luck on your search!