This is a post about fostering a connection among admins and students. Before I get to that glorious point, allow me to talk about housing.
If there's one thing I've learned from running the Shaft (along with the handsome Eric Feder) the last two years, it's that most people here don't know much about Columbia housing.
Last semester during this two-week interval from the end of March till early April, I couldn't walk through campus without someone---usually a person I'd never met---asking me a housing question. I cherished the role as an adviser, but in the back of my mind I always thought to myself, "this can't possibly be the most efficient way to ask housing questions."
