Three Hours a Day

Introduction
There’s no club soccer at Columbia b/c they don’t have club teams for teams that have varsity teams…I play on 2 intramural teams and I’m on an intramural softball team. The core takes up a large component of your time and so if you want to double, you have to spend pretty much all my time, like I just do my core and I do my History classes and my music classes and that’s pretty much it. I don’t really have all that much other time to do anthropology or political science or art or sculpting or whatever else I want to do. The core is something to expand people’s broad range of knowledge of the greatest works of—“Greatest Works” of art, music, and literature, basically from the Western World. And the Core also mixes in civilizations outside of the Western cannon. If you come to Columbia, you have to just take I think it’s 6 or 7 classes that are assigned, that are relatively good classes, some are taught by professors, some are taught by grad students about say you know Art History from the beginning or from the Acropolis to Picasso. And then you’ll do that in music, you’ll do that in literature and then that’s it.

Campus Life and Social Life
I found myself really busy all the time, of course I do too much and plan to do too much so I always end up screwing myself in that regard.If you want to do well, I would say it’s about 3 hours a day. Consistently 3 hours a day. Advertisement
Academics
Columbia is more of a left-leaning school. Everyone jokes about you know, the lonely Republicans.
Columbia, when I came here, I thought it was going to be like really, overtly in-your-face political, which would have been fine and cool, but it’s not as much as I had thought and it’s not as much as I had heard about.
But it’s certainly—people know their shit when they go here and they know what’s going on and they’re very well informed. So there is a fair amt of political action going on, but not as much as I had thought coming in.

Student Body
It’s just very expensive and not only expensive for our parents or of us if we’re doing work study or doing loans to pay them off, it’s also just expensive to live in nyc. I think I spend more money than any of my friends from high school b/c, I mean you live in NY…Even though you live in a college neighborhood in nyc, the prices are just outrageous. I mean even my friends that go to school in Brooklyn it’s not even close, the amt we have to pay just for getting lunch or getting dinner, it’s outrageous.And I find myself having to do psych studies and other things to make it.

In Closing...
So the campus dorms range from 110th street to 120th between Broadway and Amsterdam and actually they range further, but they’re pretty much all close to campus. The longest walk I have is 12 minutes to campus. Figuring out where classes were is pretty easy b/c Columbia’s small, it’s contained, it’s all in a rectangle. So you should be able to figure it out. It’s all in a 1-avenue block by 10 street blocks, it’s a little thing. Finding where your classes are is pretty easy. Finding out where student services and things like that and advising resources are, is not easy and I still haven’t figured that out. It’s nice, certainly to have the Green and on days when it’s nice outside to have all the students sitting on the steps or throwing Frisbees on the Green spaces or playing football. That’s great and you don’t get that at other schools in NY where there’s not that insulated campus. And it’s also nice to see trees once in awhile.