Columbia's Social Scene?

columbia2007
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:04:41 +0000

You’re a freshman, right? They’ve made some improvements in that department recently (Mark Chatoor has been doing a good job at housing), though free cookies and cider in the registrar’s office are more of a band-aid solution to its characteristic rudeness than anything. Trying to get the History Dept., my mysterious adviser, and the registrar’s office to coordinate when I can’t drop a seminar the department takes it upon itself to register me for is always a tiresome pain in the ass. Oh, and the people in Woodbridge whose roof caved in and can’t get Facilities to call them back anymore are not necessarily an exception, either.

Yes, it’s getting better rather than worse, but the administration here will always keep a certain surprisingly stand-offish distance from students, I think.