Schedule

With both a new year and a new semester beginning, it’s the perfect time to find new ways to stay on top of assignments and organize your daily tasks. To get you on track, here’s a guide to help you weigh the pros and cons of four different organization methods.

The profitability of athletics can hinge on a small but important factor—the game schedule. While many Division I schools have begun to place more games on weekdays to ensure more viewership and thus greater revenue, the Ivy League has decided to extend its basketball season to primarily single-matchups on weekends to accommodate the academic needs of student-athletes. However, this move may mean a decline in the profitability of Columbia’s program, according to experts.

Though Columbia College, School of General Studies, and Barnard require at least two science courses for graduation, don’t worry if you’re not so scientifically inclined. You don’t have to take General Chemistry or Cell Biology. We’ve consulted Columbia's list of courses designed for nonscience majors, the Columbia Undergrad Listing of Professor Ability (CULPA), and course reviews on Vergil+ to find courses offered in fall 2019 that will allow you to knock out the science requirement without tanking your GPA.

We hate to break it to you, but we officially have less than ten class days left, which of course means that summer is just around the corner (yay!) but also that finals are fast approaching (boo!). We can totally understand if you’re feeling stressed and a little paralyzed just thinking about the workload. But if your study plan is to binge-watch Netflix and then pull a few consecutive all nighters in Butler, we’ll be blunt: That’s a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Instead, consider spacing things out a little this round by creating a study schedule. While we can’t guarantee success, we can promise you that with a study schedule, you’ll (hopefully) maintain better mental health during this trying season because you can at least rest assured that you’ve tried your best.

Juggling between Vergil, the course bulletin and Student Services Online to register for courses can be a daunting process, but rest assured. We here at Spectrum have compiled a list of tips and tricks that will help you maximize your chances of getting into classes you want to take.

It's the classic finals problem: You roll out of bed at 10:23 a.m. (if you're disciplined) and it's the first morning of reading week. You trudge over to Butler only to find that every seat is already taken. Same thing goes if you're a night studier. At 10:23 p.m. it's just as packed. Seems like it's nearly impossible to get a table in Butler ever. (Well, that's technically not true.)

When I was in preschool I was the worst napper.

The Lions will start up their season on Saturday afternoon against a familar, non-Ivy foe: Fordham.