Columbia

This column should at least partly be a celebration of the past few years of my life. Above all, I got to do it at one of the greatest schools in the greatest city in the world. I still don’t know what I want to be in life, mostly because the door is overwhelmingly open now to anything I can make of it.

Columbia should dissuade its students from entrusting their belongings to the self-proclaimed “very best in collegiate shipping and storage.” What’s more, it should keep Collegeboxes off of College Walk.

The lack of undergraduate focus on campus is lamentable and not just for purposes of building student happiness. Happy undergraduates go on to be happy alums, and happy alums donate to and speak proudly of their alma mater.

The Columbia women’s swimming and diving team has been having one of their best seasons in school history.

After a long break, the Columbia men’s swimming and diving team returns to action this weekend as the Lions will travel to New Jersey to compete in the Princeton Invitational.

The Columbia women’s swimming and diving team is off to one of its best starts in recent memory.

Columbia wrestling hopes that what happens in Vegas this weekend helps to give the team a boost going into the winter break.

On its first trip outside the northeast, the Columbia women’s basketball team (2-4, 0-0 Ivy) will try to build on its 1-1 Thanksgiving break and put together four consistent halves on the hardwood at the Florida Atlantic Invitational.

Columbia will continue its northeast road swing tonight with a trip to Fairfield, Conn. to take on winless Sacred Heart.

Last season, the Columbia wrestling team was a nationally-ranked force to be reckoned with. They cracked into the top 25 of the national rankings for the first time in their history, placed second in the Ivy League, and one player earned All-American status.
However, that was last year. Those successes do not necessarily carry over to this year’s team, because despite having a top 25 ranked recruiting class coming in, the Lions lost some of their top seniors from last season. Three of last year’s seniors—Matt Palmer, Matt DeLorenzo, and Justin Barent—were nationally ranked, each breaking into the top 20. Another graduate, Devin Mesanko, was one of four Columbia players to reach the national tournament.