Nick Klagge

SENIOR COLUMN: That Time the Numbers Lied to Me

My Lit Hum teacher was an adjunct professor. My CC teacher was a graduate student. Ditto for my Art Hum and Music Hum teachers.

Just One of Those Summer Things

In my first couple of years at Columbia, I moderately liked New York. Not exactly T-shirt slogan material.

Cooking the Clocks

You can thank Wall Street traders for that hour of sleep you lost this weekend. You knew they were powerful, but I bet you didn't know that they actually control time.

In Memoriam

Correction appended.

Crossing Paths

New York City's population is expected to increase to 9.4 million by the year 2025-more than a million above today's total.

Adventures in Ferry Land

It felt like a good day to be on a boat. Mostly that was because it had been raining all day, but not enough for an umbrella.

Mind the Gap

This past week, I joined the hordes of suit-bedecked Columbia juniors temporarily inhabiting Columbia's Center for Career Education, praying for a blessing from the investment bank gods.

Bringing Back the Exclamation Point

In about a month, friends of mine will be leaving to spend their spring semesters in some of the most exciting places in the world: the Czech Republic, France, Chile, and elsewhere. So will I.

The City That Never Stays

I come not to praise the Fulton Fish Market, but to bury it. Or at least to try.

In Search of a Word

The best part of New York comes in those times when you find yourself on some completely unexpected adventure, ouija-boarding your way through unhelpfully named streets in search of something­-a f