Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:46am
The Spectator staff’s suggestions for classes you should take.
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:40am
While students on both sides of Broadway are assigned advisers, Barnard College boasts a more hands-on advising system.
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:38am
The beauty of the Nine Ways of Knowing is that you can complete them without trying too hard: Take random classes, and you will prosper.
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:32am
Incoming students at Columbia this year will be the first to experience a revamped advising system, implemented after years of criticism of the student advising system of previous years. Changes include the introduction of a consolidated undergraduate advising center (to be located on the fourth...
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:25am
The subject of constant philosophical and pedagogical debate, the Core unites students in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and define the University’s undergraduate mission of cultivating critical thinking. Amid the myriad Core experiences, one thing remains...
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:19am
This is the town of everybody who’s somebody and anybody who’s a nobody. Frank Sinatra said if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it would also be fair to say that New York is a place for people who wouldn’t make it anywhere else (cue Woody Allen reference here).
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:16am
As an undergraduate here, you are a citizen of both a college and the University—much like many of us are dually loyal to a state and to the United States. Except instead of 50 states, Columbia has four undergraduate schools: Columbia College, Barnard College, the School of Engineering and Applied...
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:12am
Love it, hate it, or just use it as an indoor short-cut to Broadway during winters, Columbia’s Alfred Lerner Hall Student Center turns 10 years old this October.
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:06am
Though at this point the most powerful person you’ve met at Columbia is probably your RA, there are, in fact, many people you haven’t met--or perhaps have never heard of--who make the daily decisions that govern this University.
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:01am
New York, the subway system can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.