u/saturnned

Hi everyone, I’m a rising sophomore at Binghamton University and I’m considering transferring to CCNY (grove). My main reasons are:

- being in NYC for internships and jobs (biggest one for me)
- cost (I would save a lot of money living at home)
- quality, I’m not really satisfied with the quality of engineering facilities and professors at Binghamton. I hear that professors and facilities at CCNY are not super great either, but I’m assuming it’s roughly the same

The main cons are that I would need to commute an hour 15. I would like to ask some questions to current CCNY students

- how are the professors and class timeslots (are they flexible)
- how are the engineering facilities (like free use 3d printers?)
- are there job fairs where companies come to CCNY to recruit?
- does school name really matter for engineering

By the way, I’ll be transferring around 50 credits. I have calc 1-2 completed, physics 1-2, chemistry 1-2, some engineering classes. Calc 3 I’m taking this upcoming semester. My major is Electrical Engineering.

For context, I don’t live in Taiwan but am staying with family in an apartment. Today someone buzzed the intercom and my dad thought it was family so he let them in. My dad doesn’t speak good chinese and my mom, who speaks the best Chinese was not home.

Anyways these two people came in and instantly were like fiddling with papers that seem to be floor plans. I thought it was suspicious immediately I asked them who they are and, I will be honest my mandarin is not up to level because the guy responded really quick and the only things I roughly picked up was “MRT” and “Survey”. Then they started asking whether they can look at the rooms and take photos… at this point the guy offered “we can leave” and I told him to come next time.

I immediately told my dad I thought they were robbers scouting, but he seems to think they might’ve been official people. They weren’t wearing something like official vests, and why would MRT workers need to come into our home??

If anyone has insight on what just happened, please let me know. I’m pretty paranoid about this stuff.