STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Club Sports
BY NICK STATT Joining a sports team is one of the best ways to keep active, meet new people, and really become a part of your campus community. The problem is, traditional competitive sports teams can be too serious for the average student looking more for a good time and less for the strenuous lifestyle…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Introduction
BY ERIC REZSNYAK For new students, college can seem like the final frontier. You’ve spent your whole life doing what teachers and parents tell you to do, living under someone else’s rules, following a more or less prescribed path. That’s all gone now. You’ve got a whole universe of options, and you can plot your…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Music venues
BY WILLIE CLARK Music: the life blood that pumps through any college town, or any city for that matter. Rochester is no exception to the rule. Maybe you want your music loud (and the crowd louder), or perhaps you want some java with a side of programs and pamphlets while somebody plays soulful acoustic guitar.…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Rochester Neighborhoods
14621 Residential area named for the zip code that covers it. An ethnically diverse neighborhood that abuts SenecaPark, and the zoo that shares its name. Landmarks: Nearby SenecaPark Zoo, GeneseeRiver Gorge 19th Ward Defined by its rallying cry, “Urban by Choice,” the 19th Ward is one of the largest communities in Rochester. Diversity is the…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Living Off Campus
BY NICK STATT Before Adrienne Hdolwerski finished her sophomore year at the University of Rochester, she chose not to lay down her room deposit to ensure her on-campus housing for the following semester. With the freedom of living on her own, and the thousands of dollars in savings that wouldn’t be put toward UR’s high-end…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Where to take your parents
  BY JESSE HANUS There will probably be at least one weekend during your college life when you set aside regular responsibilities, work, parties, and really any chance of spending time you’re your friends, because your parents are coming to visit. The goal for the weekend is to show your loving family around the city without…
STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’10: Transportation guide
BY WILLIE CLARK Friday night. Orientation’s done. It’s your first weekend in Rochester. No curfew. You’re ready to hit the town. One thing stands in your way: warp pipes don’t surround your school, and you have no idea how to get anywhere. You haven’t made friends with car-owning upperclassmen yet (put that on your to-do…
