Although Days on Campus in April and NSOP in the fall are generally both great ways to get a feel for Columbia and meet your new classmates, there are some aspects that aren’t completely representative of what the University will actually be like.

CC and SEAS rising juniors, you might have been a little miffed when you found out that both you and the rising sophomores had class registration times tomorrow. After all, you waited a whole year not to have the worst registration times and have to wait-list every course.

With all the focus on the Core Curriculum and Columbia College, sometimes the School of Engineering and Applied Science feels a little left out. Don’t worry, future engineers! Learn a bit more about your life in SEAS by knowing what you’ll have to take in addition to your major requirements.

Chances are that when you chose to come to Barnard, one of the draws was the fact that it is in NYC. Lucky for you then that one of your Foundations requirements is called “Thinking Locally—New York City,” but what does that mean? Thinking, in general, as NYC dwellers, or thinking about New York? If the latter, what about it?

Both Columbia College and SEAS have a two-semester physical education requirement. If you aren’t a person who likes to exercise, this may seem daunting. Luckily, there are still plenty of ways to fulfill the requirement. Most of the classes meet twice a week for an hour, but there are a few classes that deviate from the norm. If you’re looking for something that won’t take up too much of your time or is a bit more lax than your traditional run-around-a-track class, you have a handful of options.

If you’re in CC or Barnard, one of your graduation requirements is to take two science classes. (Though depending on your school and class year, your semesters of lab might vary—at Columbia you don’t need any lab, for Nine Ways of Knowing-ers, you’ll need two, and for Foundations, only one.) Maybe you’re not a science-y person, and the idea of taking science classes makes you want to cry. Maybe you are a science person, but want a GPA boost, or may think that the science classes you have to take for your major are more than enough.

While it may seem like everyone found an internship for the summer while you were spending all your time looking through columbia buy sell memes, that’s definitely not the case.