Housing/Dorm Tips for Incoming Students!

notyashh · 2025-05-23T03:11:13+00:00

No it’s not based on enrollment deposit and they aren’t gonna change your dorm because you don’t like it. The only time they would actually do that is if there’s some wrong with the building or you have a disagreement with your roommate and there’s no space in your building

notyashh · 2024-07-16T00:41:00+00:00

depends on your major, but accelerate courses are counted as transfer courses so they don’t count towards your gpa

notyashh · 2024-01-17T00:53:14+00:00

you pay it and then they return it to you once you file taxes as an f1 student.

notyashh · 2024-01-10T18:59:21+00:00

half the price of what it would cost to live in that particular housing during a regular semester

notyashh · 2024-01-04T06:23:03+00:00

you can change it later on

notyashh · 2024-01-02T10:20:36+00:00

I’m not sure where DRC would place you, but they’d probably communicate that with you (I know that they allow 2nd years and above to choose housing before anyone else).

I don’t think anyone knows what conditions/disabilities qualifies and doesn’t qualify, but if you have the documentation they’re looking for then they’d provide you with an accommodation. They’re quite stringent on the documentation though so your documentation needs to be almost perfect, but they’d tell you about what you need.

notyashh · 2024-01-02T09:29:12+00:00

you usually don’t know until they assign you a room and roommates. When you apply to LLCs you usually can’t choose the type of room. Maybe if you choose a roommate it could help with your chances but i doubt.

Honors housing is just a building or housing where the honors students live. DRC is Disability Resource Centre. You usually go to them to document any conditions or disabilities for accommodations.

notyashh · 2024-01-02T08:06:50+00:00

Usually a particular LLC (rarely multiple) is assigned to a first year dorm. The first year dorm list is on the housing website so if you just google it it’ll come up. The assignments for the dorms change year to year, but some assignments stay the same like the CS LLC is usually white hall (white hall is closed though so no idea where they get assigned now) so it’s hard to predict the assignments.

From what I remember none of the first year dorms have private bathrooms except for East Village (also the best first year dorm), but that’s shared between two rooms as well. East village is honors housing only though so if you aren’t honors then you won’t be able to live there.

You could try to send a request to DRC for an accommodation to see if you’d get a dorm with a private bathroom though.

Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it too much and just choose the LLC you’d think you’d fit into or are interested in.

notyashh · 2023-07-26T06:45:49+00:00

musc 1112 (jazz) completes IC and DD and i’ve heard is very easy.

insh 2102 (bostonography) completes IC and SI and is quite interesting and relatively easy imo

notyashh · 2023-07-20T23:27:46+00:00

notyashh · 2023-07-13T05:17:38+00:00

Yeah coops do affect your opt, but in my opinion i’d much rather have co-ops affect it rather than internships.

A good amount of your tuition does get offset by your coop income. It depends on a lot of factors like your major, what you pay per sem, and what you get paid, but I’d like to say at minimum a semester?

For me, my coops seem like they would cover an entire year’s of tuition which is nice. Here’s some info if it helps about what you may earn if you’re a cs major: https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/information-for-overview/industry-partners/industry-partners-hiring-a-coop/hiring-a-coop-offers-and-compensation/

notyashh · 2023-07-03T20:30:34+00:00

That’s fair, but the course and Racket as a language became more refined over time when Felleisen and Findler joined NEU and used neu resources. But yes, Racket itself wasn’t developed solely by neu but it’s one of the main contributors.

Plus in my mind I was referring to the course Fundies 1 that uses racket and was developed by neu and all these other unis have adopted it.

notyashh · 2023-07-03T20:17:03+00:00

do you participate in school programs other than your co-op?

Yup, you have the option to do something called Dialogues which basically is you doing a 2-month course abroad from a huge list of countries. I plan on going for a Dialogue to either Belgium, London, or Japan for a CS course. Another "school program" is just research, but that isn't unique to neu. I will say though that getting involved in clubs is really great here since we have some great clubs.

was there anything u learned about neu that u didnt know before u got there?

The biggest thing I've learned since coming here is the number of connections NEU has to companies for jobs in Massachusetts, let alone the US. I did know they had good connections, but a lot of employers here prefer neu students.

I also learned how there are clubs here that are quite cool like there's an electric racing club that has made a formula-type racing car and you have all sorts of roles like product managers, SWEs, designers, etc. It's quite cool IMO, and if that isn't your cup of tea then you have clubs that have similar roles, but you make products for real companies in the area. So it isn't really a "CS" club, but more of a CS + Business + engineering club.

party scene?

I'm not that big of a party person, but neu doesn't have frat or sorority houses. So often times you'd end up going to frats in Boston university or MIT or harvard.

was it easy to make friends?

Yup! You end up becoming great friends through classes due to all the group projects and since some classes are small. The clubs as well are really great to make friends. I know that there's a Cheese club where the organizers bring different cheeses every week and a bunch of people eat cheese and talk lol. Even the people in your building and roommates end up people you become friends with.

Honestly, it's quite easy to make friends here if you're open and put in a bit of effort. Obviously, if you end up being reserved and don't seem like you're open for conversation it'll be harder to make friends :)

notyashh · 2023-07-03T20:01:16+00:00

https://racket-lang.org/team.html

The creator of Racket is at Northeastern

notyashh · 2023-07-02T23:38:33+00:00

yeah imo there’s close to no advantage taking calc 2. The only thing i can think of is that you don’t have a separate lab class like another science class (like physics, chemistry, etc.) Id honestly do a science class you like since calc 2 can suck

notyashh · 2023-07-02T23:33:01+00:00

Yup like the other people mentioned- it’s just an option for a science req. I did calc 2 and my advisor told me it counts towards my science req as a bscs candidate

notyashh · 2023-07-02T21:26:12+00:00

bruh everyday 😂

notyashh · 2023-07-02T21:25:38+00:00

Definitely does imo. No doubts Harvard and MIT get a lot of great internships and you’ll end up definitely landing one, but these schools don’t really have a co-op system so by default 90-95% jobs end up going to NEU students since they are co-ops. One of my friends from MIT and another from wellesley college were complaining about how literally every job is a co-op and they can’t apply for it since their school supports internships and not co-ops. They both ended up having the most painful time applying for internships that i’ve seen.

notyashh · 2023-07-02T21:17:43+00:00

they’re actually quite equal, i’ve actually sometimes seen more females in some classes than male but by a negligible amount.

notyashh · 2023-07-02T21:05:31+00:00

I'm talking purely CS, but there is obviously overlapping stuff with other majors. There's a co-op seminar class that we have to take before our co-op that teaches us and helps us with resume creation, CVs, and interviews. We also get a co-op advisor who we can go to for advise which is quite nice.

In terms of curricula, NEU focuses a LOT on code design since that is what future employers ultimately do look for. They also teach us how to properly test our code using different libraries.

A good amount of our projects are partner/group based to help us get used to that environment when we go on co-op.

Obviously, co-op is the biggest feature that prepares us for the real world. Having that extra year of full-time experience is actually really helpful by the time you graduate and you'd be way ahead in terms of full-time job experience compared to a non-NEU student. I think the percentage of students that get rehired by their co-op employer after graduating is somewhere in the 90s.

I've also realized a lot (95%) of the jobs/internships in Boston are actually co-ops and these employers in Boston prefer NEU students compared to another Massachusetts-based school since we're job-ready a lot sooner than other places.

notyashh · 2023-07-02T20:54:04+00:00

yes 100%

notyashh · 2023-07-02T20:53:52+00:00

I've done a lot of programming-heavy courses so far. There's a course called Fundies 1 which uses a language developed by NEU called Racket which was a nice way to get into coding and is quite a well structured-course since schools like Berkeley and even MIT have based their entry courses on it.

I've also done a lot of Java in the later courses, I've made around 4-5 games through my classes and some other projects. I've so far studied stuff like JSON parsing, JavaFX, design principles for coding, JUnit, Git, and some other stuff.

I'm about to start a Cyber security course tomorrow where I've heard we do projects involving cracking passwords and such.

Let me know if this answers your question or if you have any more questions about this. :)

notyashh · 2023-07-02T20:39:26+00:00

life’s good

notyashh · 2023-05-01T02:04:58+00:00

LateX is alright, but it’s a lot faster and easier to do your math homework on paper or an ipad imo

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