Beyond SimCity NYC-Building Community IRL 2025
Thursday-Monday, December 18-22, 2025 (NYC)
What if building a city in The Sims could help you understand how real communities work?
Get ready to take your MUNDO experience to the next level with a 3-day immersive road trip to New York City—where culture, community, and creativity collide!
The experience cost is $200.00 which will include opportunities for participants:
- Travel by charter bus to Hostelling International New York where the group will be staying while in NYC.
- Experience multicultural walking tours and site visits in Midtown and Lower Manhattan with additional time for group exploration of other parts of the city.
- Meet and engage with Ohio State alumni and current students from Ohio State who now live in, or are from, the NYC area over a group meal.
- Take in a Broadway show as a group, and have optional opportunities to see other performances, museums, or cultural experiences on their own.
- Be part of a Choose Your Own Adventure experience that celebrates this year's MUNDO theme of GAME ON! in which you will have the chance to explore an exciting aspect of the city that is of particular interest to you!
Before the experience, selected participants will need to:
- Register by completing the Beyond SimCity NYC: Building Community IRL participation application
- DUE by September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM,
- Selected participants will be notified of their status by September 29, 2025.
- Submit a first payment of $150 by 11:59 PM on Monday, October 6, 2025.*
- Submit a final payment of $50 by 11:59 PM on Monday, October 20, 2025.*
- Get Oriented by attending the required Pre-Departure workshop on Monday, October 6, 2025, in the Barbie Tootle Room (Ohio Union) to receive the latest itinerary and safety and security information about the experience.
*All payments must be made using the MUNDO BUCK-ID payment portal.
Register now using the:
For more information:
- E-mail mundo@osu.edu.