Duke Pratt vs. Columbia SEAS

confidentialcoll
Mon, 05 May 2008 13:15:26 +0000

NYC is a social advantage, you don’t go out into the city as a loner, and sit at some bar alone, you go with friends, and go with other friends to art museums, or weird restaurants or to central park or to see some show etc.

There isn’t much interms of rallying around sports teams and huge wild parties, some people come to columbia with these expectations and are consequently disappointed. I don’t find a lack of community. The campus is small so all your friends are close by all the time, but they don’t need to be all the time since you can get away from it in the city. There is community, but the population is definitely heterogenous. It’s a myth that people are ALWAYS out in the city, most kids go out into the city once a week or once every two weeks. new york has so much on offer that it’s easy to drain your wallet dry, so few people actually go out multiple times a week. As an incoming freshman you have nothing to worry about, lots of events set up, you’ll have to do more going out and making friends, and more taking initiative on your own than you would at Duke, but hey, life doesn’t hold your hand.