Confessions of the NYUAD Confessions Page Admin: Part 2

Through its exposure of students' senses of humor, hopes, fears and struggles, Confessions humanizes the university more than any marketing material ever could.

Campus Reacts to Commencement Speaker Announcement

"I can’t believe we’re going to have one of the leads of Dumb and Dumber on our stage!”

Students Signing Up For Experiments Realize They’ve Been Part Of an Experiment All Along

While students are flocking to paid experiments at NYUAD’s social science and psychology laboratories, we can’t help but wonder if we’re all just guinea pigs in a huge social experiment.

What Everyone Back Home Thinks You've Been Doing

Family members of last year’s graduating class express surprise at the fact that their fully fledged Global Leaders™ have moved back home, crushed by the concepts of rent and paying for food.

Response to weSTEM Poster Controversy

We need to shed light on the problem of unconscious bias by explicitly putting it out there, by sharing narratives with the world.

Lost: Saadiyat Edition

“Students here lose things. And it is for this reason, and this reason alone, that the Saadiyat campus currently has more cameras than human beings.”

THE TASSEL HASSLE

“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA, should you even be graduating?”

Kitty Destress Program Goes Horribly Wrong

Who needs stress ball and yoga when you have cats?

WHAT IS SATIRE? AND OTHER SAADIYAT CURRICULUM CLASSES

NYU Abu Dhabi has now introduced a new requirement: the Saadiyat curriculum, consisting of courses that touch upon various aspects of life at NYUAD.

BREAKING NEWS: NYUAD CUTS TIES WITH NY CAMPUS, BECOMES UAD

To offer a correction, we would like to report that NYUAD, now called UAD, was actually the first to cut ties with the NY campus.

How to Avoid Someone on Campus 101

A step-by-step guide to avoid people you don't want to see in our small campus.

A Look into the New Campus Life Complaint Committee

In light of recent events, the NYU Abu Dhabi administration has opened a new office: Campus Life Complaint Committee (CaLiCoCo).

An Investigation Into Last Week's Busted Events

Residential Assistants have been on the hunt for social events to bust on the first weekend of the semester.

UPPERCLASSMAN 99% SURE HE WAS NEVER A FRESHMAN

Upperclassmen have somehow forgotten their freshman years.

The General Assembly Report

On March 13, Student Government General Assembly focused on four main topics: the Academic Disciplinary Committee, the IT Committee, the proposition ...

Coffee Rehab

I put the pro- in procrastinate. Therefore, come Saturday evening, I have an unstarted — unless you count the header — five-page essay and a couple of ...

Relationboats

How exactly do we define the word relationship? Google says it’s the way in which two or more people or things are connected. Facebook suggests that ...

Our Greatest Struggles This Week

Everybody has the perfect life according to social media. Through carefully curated content, we present the ideal but often distorted version of ...

Interclassico IV: A Night Of Goodbyes and Celebration

On the evening of May 6, the floodlights of NYU Abu Dhabi’s stadium lit up the football pitch a final time this school year in honor of one of the ...

Confessions of the NYUAD Confessions Page Admin

Where does one look to find the deepest secrets of the NYU Abu Dhabi community? From illicit love affairs to embarrassing habits, students can satisfy ...

Living with a snake in the house: Women in STEM

When junior and science student Dori Pálfi attended an academic conference during a semester abroad in New York, she was approached by two girls who ...

Carpet-surfing through Iran

Photos courtesy of Alberto Manca For this year's spring break, the two of us, as well as fellow freshmen Adrienne Chang, Prashant Sharma, Andrei Stoica ...

Ahli App: student start-up to merge prayer and technology

Deriving its name from the Arabic word for family, Ahli App aims to serve as a community catalyst. Its founder and CEO, Souhaïl Wardi, is an NYU Abu ...

Around The World in 80(ish) Rap Tracks

K-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman (recommended by junior Robson Beaudry) “ [K-os is] an iconic Canadian rapper and poet. His distinctive style ...

What You Need to Know About Saadiyat Fire Alarms

Occasionally, daily life on Saadiyat is punctured by the trill of an alarm — a sporadic sign that the emergency system in one of the campus’ buildings ...

The Link Between Personality and Language

Over the past few years, researchers in neuroscience and linguistics have tried to determine the link between language and personality. Labs studying ...

Respecting the Mic in Abu Dhabi

As the late-night shuttle rolled through the city, carrying students across sprawling superblocks and highways to campus, junior Isabelle Galet-Lalande ...

Saadiyat Hacks

Since NYU Abu Dhabi's new Saadiyat location seems straightforward enough, new arrivals on the island might be overlooking several enjoyable features of ...

Spending J-term in Abu Dhabi

“Where do you want to spend your January Term?” This is a question NYU Abu Dhabi students will be hearing over and over again as registrations for ...