Not a City Girl

Introduction
I have to say I'm really not so crazy about Columbia. I got into Harvard and turned it down to be near my folks who live on Long Island. I am looking to be a doctor, and Columbia has excellent science and pre-med programs, but now I think I should've gone with Harvard or Yale. I'm not a partier, and don't like New York City because it's too fast-paced and it takes an extraordinary amount of effort to get traditionally simple things accompllished--like doing the laundry, for instance. Or say you want groceries. If you live in an apartment near campus, like I do, you have to haul the stuff for blocks and blocks and up flights of stairs. It's no fun. Now, with the NYC MTA transit strike, I have to walk all the way down to Penn Station (like 70 blocks) just to go home for the holidays.

Campus Life and Social Life
I mostly stay in my room studying or I am in lab. I don't have much of a life. The guys here suck and I'm too broken out from all the stress to get a date anyway. I hear the bars are fun, but I'm not much of a drinker. Advertisement
Academics
Courses and professors have been my saving grace. They are excellent. i'm not so crazy about TAs because I feel I'm not getting the full education that my parents paid for, but they are also very bright.

Student Body
I hate the students here. There really is no cohesiveness among the student body. You have to go out of your way to meet people. Most of my friends I met through class. I commuted my first year and did not get to stay in the dorm, which is how I think most students meet people they know for the rest of their years.

In Closing...
Don't go unless you're crazy about New York City first. Go where your heart takes you, not where other people tell you you should go to school.