Victoria Yang

Packing is hard. How do you consolidate your entire life into a few boxes? What if you forget something super important at home? Or decide against bringing something last minute, only to ask your parents to ship it to you three days (and $20) later?

There’s a lot going on when you first arrive at college. You’re trying to balance socializing with new friends, attending class, and participating in all 30 of the activities you signed up for at the club fair. It can definitely be hard to keep track of it all—especially at the beginning of the year when you haven’t yet narrowed down the number of clubs you want to be a part of—but you don’t want to miss out on anything. Here’s how you can determine which clubs are a go and which you should forgo, and then how to keep track of all the interest meetings and auditions you’ll have to attend.

Now that you’re a college student, you have some degree of control over your money. However, you may find that no matter how much you budget, you might still end up not having as much cash as you’d like. Before you fire up Google (“How much for a black market kidney,” anyone?) research some easier (and legal) ways to make and save money on campus.

Being in a new place and adjusting to a new routine can really take a toll on your fitness regimen (if you actually had one in the first place). However, it’s important to set aside some time for exercise in your busy Barnumbia life, and want to continue (or start) your active lifestyle in college, Columbia and Barnard make it easy to do so.

It’s one thing for us to publish content that will help you ace your exams, but what are students to do if they can’t even find the motivation to drag themselves to Butler? It’s been a long semester, and with the summer on the horizon and the weather getting warmer, we know it might be hard to find the inspiration to do the work required for you to do well on your upcoming exams.

It's that time of the year again. While some of you are trying your best to make the most out of this last day of reading week and others are already in bed for their 9 a.m. Friday finals, we're here with the Columbia University Marching Band (CUMB).

Finals season is tough, there’s no question about it. But there is a lot of ways that it could be worse. You could forget to study for a final because you have so many, get really sick during reading week, or even deal with multiple finals on the same day.

We’ve all been there. You’ve got a paper due in three days, and you just keep on getting distracted by your cozy blankets, that new Netflix show, or other less important work. Next thing you know, you have to crank out a 10-page paper in six hours. We get it, you basically major in procrastination.

During reading week, you wake up with a case of the sniffles. You brush it off as nothing, but then your throat gets itchy, your body feels achy, and before you know it, you’re too tired to get out of bed. The whole semester has been building up to finals, but nature decided to throw a curveball at you and bam, you’re sick. What should you do??