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<\/a>Students in front of the Hunter North Building. \u201cThe major thing that I noticed about the school is there\u2019s nowhere to sit,\u201d said film major Michael Tomaszewski a transfer student. \u201cI\u2019ve never walked into a school and seen so many people sitting on the floor, so that\u2019s odd.\u201d Picture by Olivier Dumont.<\/p><\/div>\n
The last traces of summer weather are diminishing, and with the school year kicking into third gear, six students interviewed for this story about their experiences and opinions in the early weeks of the semester said they were immersing themselves in their studies and campus life. Eighteen-year-old Melissa Hildalgo, a freshman from the Bronx, dressed in a thin grey cardigan and wearing light blue jeans, expressed enthusiasm when she was interviewed. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to meet new people. I\u2019m very open to finding new friends, so anyone out there who wants a friend, I\u2019m Melissa and I\u2019m in desperate need of friends,\u201d she said, giggling at her response near the library entrance on the third floor of the sky bridge.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Melissa Hildalgo, picture by Olivier Dumont.<\/p><\/div>\n
Michael Tomaszewski, a scruffy, bearded 20 year old from Queens with short, thick brown hair and dressed in a black collared shirt, said he felt comfortable as a new student on campus. \u201cI\u2019m new, so I try to talk to people and people are pretty receptive,\u201d he said, sitting on the side of the third-floor sky bridge near the escalators in the West Building. Tomaszewski, a transfer student from Dutchess Community College based in Poughkeepsie New York, did say he was perplexed about one specific observation. \u201cThe major thing that I noticed about the school is there\u2019s nowhere to sit,\u201d the film major said. \u201cI\u2019ve never walked into a school and seen so many people sitting on the floor, so that\u2019s odd.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hildalgo and Tomaszewski were interviewed during the transition period that has the campus shifting from its summer recess\u00a0 slumber to the bustling, active days of campus life that includes students waiting in long lines in the bookstores and third-floor cafeteria, adding and dropping classes and getting a feel for new classes and professors. Several of the students interviewed for this magazine article \u2013 one of several about the early weeks of campus activity being published in the coming days\u2013 said they were content and happy with their class schedules and none spoke about dropping\u00a0 courses, even when it came down to math.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not that big of a fan of math classes, but I know I have to take it and its about personal finance so that\u2019s a really useful thing,\u201d said 19-year-old Kristy Hoessel of Brooklyn, a film major wearing a jean jacket and red leggings, sitting on the third-floor sky bridge near Hunter\u2019s North Building. She\u2019s taking six courses and didn\u2019t seem fazed at all by her workload.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t have any classes I want to drop. I want to take more classes actually,\u201d she said. Sitting on the side of the third-floor sky bridge connecting the West and the East buildings of the campus, biochemistry major Mario Espa\u00f1a, 20, of Queens, said his schedule was \u201cpretty horrible.” Espa\u00f1a, wearing glasses and dressed in a PSG soccer jersey and dark blue jeans, also said, \u201cI have a lot of night classes and, specifically, with days like today, I start at 8 a.m. but I get out at 9:15 p.m., so I never look forward to Thursdays.<\/p>\n
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