By Sam Levin | Aug 31 11:08 pm ET
Students can use Flex to dine at a wide variety of eateries throughout Morningside Heights and Harlem, home to an eclectic patchwork of restaurants and shops, together forming a local retail scene as varied as its patrons. View interactive map.
By Spectator Staff | Aug 31 11:14 pm ET
116 ways to get the most out of your Columbia experience.
By Zeynep Memecan | Aug 31 11:41 pm ET
Construction on Barnard’s new student center, the Nexus, began in 2008 after the demolition of the old McIntosh Center. In April 2009, it was officially named The Diana after Diana Touliatou Vagelos, BC ‘55, who donated $15 million to the project.
By Joy Resmovits | Aug 31 11:42 pm ET
At campus’s Northwest corner, you’ll notice a brand new piece of architecture that stands out from its red-bricked neighbors: the Interdisciplinary Science Building
By Jessica Hills | Aug 31 11:46 pm ET
While local schoolchildren were enjoying time away from classrooms this summer, New York’s parents, teachers, and politicians kept up heated debate about the city’s public school system.
By Maggie Astor | Aug 31 11:59 pm ET
Manhattanville, an area in West Harlem, is the site of the University’s long-term expansion plan, extending from 129th to 133rd streets between Broadway and Twelfth Avenue, and including a few properties east from 131st to 134th streets. While essentially the project is a done deal, it persists as the source of much passion—and sometimes vitriol—on campus and throughout the surrounding neighborhoods.
By Maggie Astor | Sep 1 12:01 am ET
New York, the subway system can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be.
By Alexa Davis | Sep 1 12:06 am ET
Though at this point the most powerful person you’ve met at Columbia is probably your RA, there are, in fact, many people you haven’t met--or perhaps have never heard of--who make the daily decisions that govern this University.
By Alix Pianin | Sep 1 12:12 am ET
Love it, hate it, or just use it as an indoor short-cut to Broadway during winters, Columbia’s Alfred Lerner Hall Student Center turns 10 years old this October.
By Joy Resmovits | Sep 1 12:16 am ET
As an undergraduate here, you are a citizen of both a college and the University—much like many of us are dually loyal to a state and to the United States. Except instead of 50 states, Columbia has four undergraduate schools: Columbia College, Barnard College, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the School of General Studies.
By Betsy Morais | Sep 1 12:19 am ET
This is the town of everybody who’s somebody and anybody who’s a nobody. Frank Sinatra said if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it would also be fair to say that New York is a place for people who wouldn’t make it anywhere else (cue Woody Allen reference here).
By Scott Levi | Sep 1 12:25 am ET
The subject of constant philosophical and pedagogical debate, the Core unites students in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and define the University’s undergraduate mission of cultivating critical thinking. Amid the myriad Core experiences, one thing remains clear: Everyone discovers at least one aspect that stretches his cultural knowledge, productively contextualizes her political views, or exposes his previously unknown love for classical literature.
By Alexa Davis | Sep 1 12:32 am ET
Incoming students at Columbia this year will be the first to experience a revamped advising system, implemented after years of criticism of the student advising system of previous years. Changes include the introduction of a consolidated undergraduate advising center (to be located on the fourth floor of Lerner Hall), as well as the appointment of Monique Rinere as the new dean of advising.
By Melissa Repko | Sep 1 12:38 am ET
The beauty of the Nine Ways of Knowing is that you can complete them without trying too hard: Take random classes, and you will prosper.
By Alix Pianin | Sep 1 12:40 am ET
While students on both sides of Broadway are assigned advisers, Barnard College boasts a more hands-on advising system.
By Spectator Staff | Sep 1 12:46 am ET
The Spectator staff’s suggestions for classes you should take.
By Yin Yin Lu | Aug 31 11:19 pm ET
As one of the world’s premier research institutions, Columbia is equipped with a legion of libraries that contain all the print and digital resources that students could possibly need. And Columbia’s libraries are not only places to borrow books, but also spots to nestle up with coursework and a laptop. Take the time to familiarize yourself with them now because by exam season, at least one will have become your second home.
Butler Library
By Hannah Yudkin | Aug 31 11:21 pm ET
Before you venture off-campus in order to tackle the city’s masterpieces, it may be a good idea to warm up with the stellar options Columbia has to offer. Indoors and out, you’re sure to find worthy pieces right at your fingertips.
By Lily Cedarbaum and Joe Daly | Aug 31 11:23 pm ET
When students are seeking an alternative where they can watch their shows and control the remote, Columbia has some prime offbeat TV havens scattered across campus.
By Catherine Rice | Aug 31 11:24 pm ET
With more than two dozen different dance organizations on campus, students have an abundance of opportunities to both attend performances and take part in dance free-for-alls.
By Ruthie Fierberg | Aug 31 11:27 pm ET
With New York City as the marked center of the theater world, it is no surprise that Columbia is a hub of extracurricular activity for theater-lovers and performers. The member organizations of the Columbia University Performing Arts League provide an outlet for performers, directors, writers, producers and technicians of all levels of experience.
By Devin Briski | Aug 31 11:32 pm ET
Restaurants are similar to those new friends—you can’t always judge them by appearance. So to make the process easier, skip over the obvious mediocre choices and head straight for these lesser-known but far superior destinations.
By Rebecca Pattiz | Aug 31 11:36 pm ET
If you can’t afford, or just can’t stand, to pay for your tunes, there are all kinds of creative ways to find free music on campus, criminal activity excluded.
By Peter Labuza | Aug 31 11:39 pm ET
The number of theaters that screen classic cinema every weekend make the Big Apple a paradise for cinephiles. One could truly get an entire history of cinema in one day, something I tried to attempt last Saturday.
