turkey-drop

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.

An ornate image of bucolic gardens inhabited by lounging Turkish poets engaged in conversation took up the screen in Schermerhorn’s eighth floor lecture hall. Though seemingly purely decorative, these manuscript images told a story in reflecting the essential values of Ottoman life during the 16th century.

You have two first-round interviews next week, have a cover letter due at 11:59 p.m. that you haven’t begun writing, and want to improve your resume but don’t know how to.

Columbia Health will be instituting a new two-path model for its counseling drop-in system: one option for short-term “problem solving” and another one for more urgent mental health concerns.

It’s 11 p.m. the night before your 10-page research paper is due, and you’re sitting in the stacks, bleary-eyed, with a cup of Blue Java coffee, wondering how you’re going to turn the two pages’ worth of incoherent ramblings in front of you into a coherent essay by tomorrow morning.

My first weeks at Barnard were terrible. I was rejected from multiple clubs (and wrote a Spec article about it), I missed home, my family, my friends—and I missed my girlfriend. But there was a silver lining—although we went to different colleges, I had someone to share those first-year experiences with, who was going through the exact same changes and uncertainty. Rather than growing apart because of our distance, we grew together.

Sure, Thanksgiving is technically about expressing gratitude, but let’s be honest: the holiday is mostly about the food—and it doesn’t have to come in the form of a fancy home-cooked meal. If you’re staying in the city and spending the holiday with your Barnumbia family, we have a few ideas for your traditional Thanksgiving meal.

If you’re asking yourself whether or not you should drop a class, our advice is simple: Do it.

You thought you could keep on delaying your class decisions, but now it’s time to commit. It might seem like second semester just started, but the drop deadline—Tuesday, Feb. 21 (except for lucky SEAS: Your drop deadline is March 23)—is coming up soon.