Erin Ikeuchi, BC ’24, sat on the second floor of the Diana Center. Save for a few stylish details—a chunky metal necklace and bleached blond brows—nothing about her screamed editor in chief of Hoot Magazine, Columbia’s nationally renowned fashion magazine.

Scrolling through Claire Easton’s, CC ’22, Instagram shop @eatmycrotch feels like flipping through a hip grandma’s closet. A plethora of crocheted pastel pieces are aesthetically arranged on the shop’s Instagram, juxtaposing an age-old craft with modern social media surroundings.

Yarden Natsia, GS ’21, spent much of her time at Columbia seeking out skincare preferences from her peers. During her three years at Columbia, Natsia often reached out to fellow students, asking for their advice on her skincare brand “Yardè.” According to her, these polls were quite effective.

Some kids dream of becoming professional soccer players; others dream of attending an Ivy League institution—few achieve either. Dylan Castanheira, CC ’19, achieved both. This year, Dylan Castenheira signed with Inter Miami CF, making him one of just six former Ivy League students—and the only former student from Columbia—who will play Major League Soccer this season.

This past summer, I attempted to learn how to skate and immerse myself in the surprisingly exclusive New York City skating community. Since Alexis Sablone, a 2008 Barnard graduate and one of the best professional female skateboarders in the United States, developed her professional-level skating while at Columbia, I assumed that I could at least learn some basic skating skills and perhaps find a skate community to be a part of on campus.

The 2010s was a breakthrough decade for Columbia track and field. The decade saw improvements initiated to the program in the 1990s finally come to fruition, as the men’s and women’s team finished consistently better in the Ivy League than ever before.

While the highlight from this weekend’s men’s basketball games may have been the renaming of the Levien Gymnasium’s basketball court in honor of Jonathan Schiller, CC ’69, Law ’73, it is becoming readily apparent that the Lions may be the ones in need of a makeover, as the team dropped both its games for the fourth week in a row.