By Dinah Alobeid

It’s the talk of the town, or at least on Northeastern’s campus. With a new semester underway, students from all majors and years are gabbing with topics ranging from dining facilities to the notorious NU shuffle.

Surveying students this past week has deemed some freshmen as curious and eager, sophomores as excited to be out in the real world, middlers and juniors working to reach their ultimate goal, and seniors, excited to graduate but a little disappointed with advising.

Erik Estrada, a freshman journalism major, looked forward to the start of the professional football season last week.

“I’ve been waiting and soon it will finally be here,” Estrada said.

Other freshmen are voicing mixed opinions about the dining hall.

“I am very upset that the dining hall closes at 9 p.m. I was very hungry and needed nourishment and went down to eat and the hall was closed,” said Erika Corruba, a freshman journalism major. “I had to wait until breakfast to have a real meal and I was not pleased. How am I supposed to get anything done in the day if I can’t eat? I had to wake up early to get to breakfast also because I have an 8 a.m. class.”

Estrada has had a different experience.

“Living in a Stetson is awesome because it is so nice to have a dining area right downstairs,” Estrada said. “When you’re hungry and you have to walk a while to get to the dining halls, living above one seems like a great advantage.”

The consensus is sophomores are not worried about much this week. Students who declined their guaranteed on-campus housing said they are happy about moving into apartments and not having to be under the watchful eye of RAs.

“It is great to live in housing instead of [residence halls],” said Cecilia Ramos, a sophomore nursing major. “Apartments are roomier and you don’t have to sign guests in depending on where you live.”

Robin Ortiz, a sophomore pharmacy major, agreed with Ramos’ feelings on housing.

“Our grade isn’t really talking about parties or trying to find the next party,” Ortiz said. “We are all older and now we’re talking about clubs and bars and just hanging out in each other’s apartments because that is such a great update from the two-by-two dorms we were in as freshmen.”

The start of this year makes co-op a concern for second year students, as the reality quickly approaches.

“I am definitely looking forward to co-op,” said Jessica Templey, a sophomore business major. “It is the major reason that Northeastern is such a great school.”

With the semester in full swing, seniors expecting to graduate this year have started to feel heightened pressure.

“[Seniors] have a lot on our plate,” said Lindsey Davis, a senior psychology major. “Not only are there concerns about graduating, but four out of five seniors I have talked to have said they have been having serious problems with advising.”

Davis said the problems seniors are facing when it comes to graduation are piling up drastically, more so than in other years.

“They keep telling people who are supposed to graduate in December that they need more credits than they originally thought and now they have to graduate later and take more courses,” Davis said.

However, being a senior is not all bad, she said. Davis said she was positive balancing out the toils she and her friends are experiencing.

Keep watching out for the Northeastern News’ Inside section, formerly the Style section, because there is never the same word on the street.