Students streamed onto Butler Library’s South Lawn with platefuls of shrimp, lobster, and steak during Columbia Dining’s annual Surf and Turf event, which happened on April 20.

Students streamed into Lerner Roone Arledge Auditorium to cheer on their peers as they walked the runway in DAWANG brand jumpsuits, dresses, and patchwork hoodies on Sunday.

Yannet Sandi Herrera didn’t know how to sew until recently. However, this past February, a garment she sewed herself—a green pantsuit with a black cape—appeared on the runway at Riverside Church.

Next to the Dos Toros on Broadway between 113th and 114th is a big multicolored sign adorned with the phrase “RICE IS CULTURE.”

Every morning, most Barnard and Columbia students ask themselves what they are going to wear. For five Barnard and Columbia seniors, the answer to this question has changed drastically over the past four years. Some feel a new freedom to dress casually, while others have started to discover their own personal sense of style.

On campus, a student might stroll by wrapped in a lime green and bright orange scarf, carrying a mini white houndstooth bag, or wearing a checkered bucket hat. These disparate articles of clothing all have one thing in common: They were crocheted by Columbia students.

Walking around Columbia’s campus, a visitor will inevitably run into a student throwing a frisbee on South Lawn wearing a Columbia sweatshirt or sitting on Low Steps wearing a Pantone 290 colored hoodie. These iconic college garments, particularly varsity-style sweatshirts and hoodies, have earned a perennial spot in the quintessential American college student wardrobe.

Like all chemistry labs on campus, the Making and Knowing Project’s laboratory space, located in Chandler Hall, has sinks, cabinets, and scales. But look more closely and you’ll notice other objects too—like crimson fabrics and a white rat with bird wings.