It's that time of the year again -- students are choosing between friends, checking out old cutoff numbers, and strategizing in hopes of landing the ideal dorm room for the next year.

It’s one thing to come to Columbia and join a campus group, but quite another to get quality housing out of it.

What’s it like for a guy to live in an all-girls dorm? Marcos Garcia, CC ’08, spent a year in Barnard’s Plimpton Hall and lived to share the story.

The housing-selection process is about as easy to predict as the stock market, but where there are numbers, people will always use them.

If you thought the recent crackdown on parties in East Campus was bad, imagine living on campus 40 years ago.

Say goodbye to paper housing contracts.

It’s Friday afternoon in the 116th Street subway station. A young face squeezes onto a packed 1 train among a crowd of gray-haired commuters in suits.

Since June 2007, when Columbia and Barnard joined eight other New York City colleges in adopting Mayor Bloomberg’s “30 in 10” challenge, ongoing efforts to make the University more eco-friendly hav

While students are busy mulling over possible options in the perennial housing-selection process, administrators have their own annual housing ritual: renovations.

So you’re stuck in that crappy two-year limbo between cushy first-year housing and coveted senior selections. Imagine a life in...

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