It’s everyone’s worst nightmare. You get an email from your dream school, letting you know you’ve been accepted. You’re over the moon with joy, but then, wait—there’s been a mistake. The email was sent in error.

When interacting with people who have the power to potentially employ you, you can’t help but ask the age-old question: What do I wear?? You want to dress to impress, but you also don’t want to be the person who wanders into a room full of casually dressed people in full Western business attire.

In addition to testing, preparing, and submitting the actual application, some schools (med, law, you know how it goes by now) will ask you to interview. The type of interview is really dependent on the program—sometimes you can do it over Skype or the phone. But for a lot of fancy-pants programs (especially med schools), you’ll oftentimes have to travel to the school in person.

If you’re preparing to go to grad school, there are a lot of bits and pieces that you’ll need to think about, including the dreaded entrance exams. (If you thought the SAT was the last big test of your lifetime, then you probably shouldn’t have decided to go to grad school.)

For School of General Studies, Columbia College, and Barnard students (sorry SEAS sophomores who declared in October), the day you’ve been dreaming of (or dreading) since you arrived at college has come: major declaration day.

You're trying to find an internship for this summer, but Google and internships.com aren't really helping you narrow down your search. If you can't find the perfect job, then head over to LionSHARE, a Columbia-specific database for jobs and internships run by the Center for Career Education. Columbians (and even alums!) have access to LionSHARE, while Barnumbians have NACELink, otherwise known as Millie Careers.

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to have a 10-year plan, what better way to get cracking on that goal than to make sure you'll be able to graduate on time? Your advisor outlined your requirements during NSOP, but whether you're a senior or a first-year, that probably seems like a distant, foggy memory.