In December, it was the crush of finals. In January, it was the biting cold. And now, in February, it’s the John Jay Dining Hall-endorsed cosmic joke that is Valentine’s Day. Whether they accept their single status with bold defiance or choose to mope around their respective rooms blasting Adele on Spotify, for three consecutive months unattached Columbia students have had reasons to wish that they weren’t so alone. Being single is the default romantic condition of Columbia undergraduates, be they male, female, straight, queer, or somewhere in between.
