The absence of student parties (if there aren’t any) speaks volumes. If there are parties or get togethers in pubs off campus that would be a good place to pick up the unvarnished truth.
If there aren’t any off campus parties, or get togethers in pubs, that speaks volumes.
How would one learn anything about going to sea at SUNY, if he doesn’t first learn how to go drinking ashore with his shipmates?
What about girls? Are SUNY students surrounded by a sea of eager girls in NY, but keep locked up with less access to girls than the kids in Castine? That would be a crime.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;106786]The absence of student parties (if there aren’t any) speaks volumes. If there are parties or get togethers in pubs off campus that would be a good place to pick up the unvarnished truth.
If there aren’t any off campus parties, or get togethers in pubs, that speaks volumes.
How would one learn anything about going to sea at SUNY, if he doesn’t first learn how to go drinking ashore with his shipmates?
What about girls? Are SUNY students surrounded by a sea of eager girls in NY, but keep locked up with less access to girls than the kids in Castine? That would be a crime.[/QUOTE]
I heard from the students that they partner up with Fordham for all the dances and those kind of things. So thank the lord there will be some girls. No parties on the campus though, but the students do go out on the weekends.
You can go out on the weekends only, you can fit in a Thursday if you’re an upperclassmen, you’ll have to go to Fordham or manhattan to find where the underage parties are. Midtown is about two hours away by public transit, Fordham 20 minutes by Taxi. Most of the “Maritime” bars on East Tremont avenue near the school require an ID and don’t have college girls, just you and your maritime buddies sitting around.
We had an official Social or whatever with FIT a few years ago, they only did it that once. There’s none of the partying that other schools have and going to bars and nightclubs in NYC can be expensive.
You can’t even get very far if you meet a lady-friend. Maritime doesn’t allow overnight guests, even on weekends. Your only hope is that you get invited back to her place. (I hope her roommates are out)
If steady relationships are more your thing…well you still can’t have guests at the school.
When the heck did they stop with the over night guest?! That’s freaking crazy!
Yep, insane. My gf went to a catholic college and she was allowed to have guests with no advanced notice. Just had to have the RA on duty sign you in.
SUNY is not for everyone that is a given. Even though I plan on keeping the girlfriend I have on into college I really could care less about overnight visits. She would live over 15 hours away so there would be no time she would ever be able to come up and “visit”.
Now however it does suck for anyone not in a relationship or someone who is that has a girl/guy close by. Going to SUNY or almost every other academy you are going to not have those crazy college party years like people going to OSU, UK, UL, or Alabama.
You go there for the license, degree, and hopefully job. You just have to pray that those crappy 4 years possibly 5 years of your life are going to be worth it. If you know how deep a pile of crap you are going to be in before you get there or have been through it before then you should have no problems at the school.
You do know there’s an airport near by, right? A girl I was dating at the time came up and spent almost a week with me! That’s a shame they cut off over nights…
[QUOTE=ryanwood86;106855]You do know there’s an airport near by, right? A girl I was dating at the time came up and spent almost a week with me! That’s a shame they cut off over nights…[/QUOTE]
Yes I know haha. LGA is about a $45 cab ride away. I don’t expect my girlfriend to pay $300 to stay for a weekend. Now a week is different but that would be impossible now anyway. I imagine I will just cross that whole relationship bridge when I come to it.
So if I have a girl and a kid I can’t live out on town with them??
[QUOTE=“drod2214;106868”]So if I have a girl and a kid I can’t live out on town with them??[/QUOTE]
You have to be a day student to do that.
Is it hard to become a day student??
[QUOTE=“drod2214;106931”]Is it hard to become a day student??[/QUOTE]
You mentioned that you’re prior service. That gives you day student status.
I remember 10 years ago at Maritime the only upgrades folks were getting was a bump from 4th to 3rd class after indoc (or day student for prior service or grad students) and that was IT. PERIOD.
Today the upgrades get passed around like they’re going out of style. They really need to make people do a full 4th class year before upgrades, especially day students. Handing them 1st class rights off the bat makes them feel entitled to them while on cruise, and in some cases becomes their excuse to deny being MUGS. Cannot tell you how many times these folks logged in and out of watches using D/S as their title, [U][I]refusing[/I][/U] to write their class rank.
Amazingly enough, they had no problem signing as 1/c when the time presented itself.
Huge overnight upgrades have huge downsides for people not experienced or mature enough to handle them. We had a civilian student at Maritime who joined the regiment shortly after becoming an RD (Resident Director.) Overnight he was authorized to wear the silver bars of a Lieutenant Junior Grade, and suddenly he went into full-on dick mode with the entire SUNY regiment. He wrote up so many people and busted balls so hard until the day it came time to register for summer sea term. When he found out he was going to be a MUG on cruise and that all of the people he was screwing over were 1st class, he tucked his tail between his legs and transferred to Texas Maritime. Good riddance.
Yea I understand how people could abuse there power I have seen it in the navy like crazy… If I was to get day student status ( and I don’t even no how much power that would give me over others) I am deffinatley not the type to abuse power or think I can go around bossing people around because I am prior service… I just want to make sure I can move my girlfriend and daughter with me to the Bronx and be able to live out on town with them…
[QUOTE=“drod2214;107170”]Yea I understand how people could abuse there power I have seen it in the navy like crazy… If I was to get day student status ( and I don’t even no how much power that would give me over others) I am deffinatley not the type to abuse power or think I can go around bossing people around because I am prior service… I just want to make sure I can move my girlfriend and daughter with me to the Bronx and be able to live out on town with them…[/QUOTE]
Yes you can. Welcome to the school and prepare for the BS!
[QUOTE=drod2214;107170]Yea I understand how people could abuse there power I have seen it in the navy like crazy… If I was to get day student status ( and I don’t even no how much power that would give me over others) I am deffinatley not the type to abuse power or think I can go around bossing people around because I am prior service… I just want to make sure I can move my girlfriend and daughter with me to the Bronx and be able to live out on town with them…[/QUOTE]
You’ll be fine. Nobody will actively seek you out 24/7 to bother you, and as a day student you’ll find that you kind of live in a different world than the rest of the regiment. As far back as I can remember, day students have no authority over any regular class in the regiment on land, and aren’t under the command of any of them (except for the RA) either. While on the ship for Saturday Ship Work or on Summer Sea Term, however, you carry the authority of your class standing. So if you haven’t been on a cruise yet, you are essentially a 4th class. If you’ve finished your 1st Class cruise, then at ship work you carry the rating of a 1st class.
It’s two different systems on land and at sea. The isolation you live in as a day student for your first year feels strangest when you go on MUG cruise and realize “Wow! I don’t know ANY of these people!”
To be extra safe, don’t be one of those clowns like my USAF veteran neighbor who thought the Warrant Officer bar used as the insignia for a day student meant you were really a Warrant Officer. He wrote people up in CLASS for talking, literally carrying a wad of pinks around in his pocket. Right before MUG cruise he transferred to Rutgers in NJ, obviously because he realized he was already hated and alienated from the entire regiment, let alone his own classmates whom he would need to work and live with. In summation, don’t be an ass clown… blend in.
Lol thanks for the info shooter… I have another question. I start at SUNY this August and me being a day student and all how would my week look. Like woul I be going to school Monday thru Friday? Or just a couple days out the week?
[QUOTE=flyboy14295;105981]Case closed, you’re in.
The school (more the regiment) LOVES to take in ex-service members, and within your first few weeks, you will be handed a position of responsibility, and power. You will be in charge of cadets that have been there for a few years. They do it every year.[/QUOTE]
That doesn’t seem to be the case…
I’m USCG reserves with a DD214 [over three years active duty] and I was not admitted. Though to be fair, I had done poorly my first time in college but then when I went back to school I maintained a 3.0 and was in the honor’s society. I also have 3 years of actual maritime work under my belt.
Everyone said I was a shoe in as well… I even had a going away party and didn’t apply to any of the other schools.
CURSE MY ARROGANCE!!!
Blegh…
Tasteless, mind me asking what month you applied in?