If you chose the right day to walk across campus this week, Columbia would seem like a glorious, stress-free college. Yesterday students were relaxing on the lawns, smoking on Low Steps, drinking beers out of paper bags, and throwing Frisbees without shirts on.
Prospies be warned: Columbia does not normally look like this. Pale students swarm the steps of Low and scurry across College Walk. They slug coffee out of thermoses and eat unpalatable food from John Jay.