So I’ve been putting off submitting my housing application for NYU - mainly because I hadn’t decided what dorm I wanted to live in yet. But I finally sat down today, and made my top five choices for residential halls:

Weinstein
Hayden
Goddard
Rubin
Brittany

So, with this important step in my college preparatory process complete, I finally made my way over to the NYU Housing Application. Question 1: Gender Identity. “Please enter whether you would like to be assigned a room based on your legal gender, or a different gender with which you identify.” Easy enough. But in the drop-down list, there were only three options:

1. Female
2. Gender Identity Male
3. Gender Identity Female

“What, I can’t just be plain old male?” I ask. It’s then that I look up at the top of my application, and see this:

Apparently, NYU thinks I’m a girl. No joke. I suppose with thousands of incoming freshmen, something on someone’s application was bound to get messed up. But my gender??? *sigh* - I suppose I’m going to have to call someone about this…