<p>@clssnr: Yeah, bio/pre-med/science will be a very different experience than a humanity track. You won’t have many papers (yay?), but you will have weekly problem sets, required labs, and multiple midterms. Like neiro, I’m not a bio major—I’m an anthro major—so I can’t speak to the exact workload.</p>
<p>@Adam: Columbia’s location in NYC absolutely changes the dynamics of our community. With very few exceptions, we don’t have the kind of campus-wide events that you see at other schools. Columbians also tend to be a lot like New Yorkers—individualist, cosmopolitan, and sophisticated. That also factors into the Columbia community feeling very different from your “typical college” community. It isn’t that difficult to make friends if you join clubs and make an effort to meet people, but you definitely have to meet people. I wouldn’t say Columbia is worse than other schools when it comes to community; it’s just different.</p>