thanksgiving

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Thanksgiving will look different this year. Whether you’re traveling back home for break or celebrating Thanksgiving with your friends on campus, here’s a guide to staying safe during the holiday season.

Every year, the United States has a national holiday called Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a holiday spent with family, so many Columbia students use the long weekend to travel back home to do so. This year, Columbia’s Thanksgiving break is from Nov. 25 to 29, and as some students celebrate, international students may be left wondering what the holiday entails.

Besides being a much needed break from school, and for some of us, an opportunity to lounge in the warmth of home while consuming copious amounts of stuffed turkey and mashed potatoes, Thanksgiving serves as a reminder to give thanks for all the good that has come our way this year and give back to the community that has contributed to your wellbeing and success.

Thanksgiving break is right around the corner, Columbia! If you don’t have the luxury of going home for Turkey Day but still want to get away from the busy streets of New York during the holiday rush, here are seven New Jersey towns that might be worth the visit over Thanksgiving break.

If you’re planning on having a Thanksgiving dinner with your friends, it can be hard to figure out what to cook. What can make it even more of a challenge is the size of the kitchen in your dorm and the resources available to you. But, there are still many options for cheap, quick, and easy recipes that even a beginner can cook, so here are a few of our favorites:

This Thanksgiving season, we here at Spectrum are all very thankful to be at Columbia—so thankful, in fact, that we’re writing another article about it. This time though, we’re highlighting a few common things at Columbia that we as students are grateful to be able to complain about.

After making it through nearly three months of the semester, you deserve a time to rest, relax, and even check out a movie or two.

Thanksgiving break is (thankfully) right around the corner, and though you’re most likely eager to go back home, binge-watch Netflix, and/or catch up on sleep, we hope that you also take a few minutes to appreciate the people and things that have made life better for you here in Morningside Heights. To give you a little inspiration, we here at Spectrum have come together and crafted a list of things we are grateful for.

We’ve all been there. It’s the morning after Thanksgiving, we feel like we ate a whole turkey, and are beginning to regret that fourth piece of pie. (There were so many pies! I had to try to the bourbon pecan and the wild blueberry!) With shame and regret, we do a quick search online to see how many calories the average American consumes on Thanksgiving and cringe at the result. It looks like we might actually have to start burning off the turkey fat. There’s only one problem: Exercising on campus sucks.