Off-campus adventures can be exciting, disappointing, infuriating --- sometimes even all three at once. We want to hear about your experiences off-campus, so email us your stories at editor@columbiaspectator.com. To kick off the series, here's Spec A&E writer Henry Green on waiting in line for SNL tickets.
The process of getting tickets to any sort of late night show is a great equalizer.
Sure, the VIPs get to slip in the door with no wait at all, but unless you’re very important – and, let’s face it, most of us aren’t – then whether Columbia student or father of four, you’re stuck outside braving the elements.
There is no way to buy tickets or pay your way in short of bribing the entire line, and realistically, you’re not going to bribe the entire line. Instead you will wait, paying for your ticket not with money but with time.
That time seemed a fair price to me and a friend from high school this Saturday, so around 3:30 a.m., we assumed our positions outside Rockefeller Plaza. Well, to be perfectly honest, I assumed my position – he didn’t arrive for another hour.
