Life at Columbia

mikesown
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:12:07 +0000

From what I’ve heard, the groups of friends are not cliquey per se. It’s just that you have a close group of friends who know you well. Kind of like Seinfeld, I guess.
When I said clubs, I was referring to the latter(fake-ID-get-wasted-clubs-with-bouncers-etc.). However, this is not what every student does! If you don’t love to go to clubs, you can do whatever you want! That was merely an example of what one could do. I am not one of these individuals who likes to go to clubs. I think paying $100 for booze to sit in a loud place where you can’t hear anyone is a waste of money, time and hearing.


When referring to “music clubs” I assume you mean jazz club-type places. These certainly exist in NYC, and you can definitely go to one(I think for Music Humanities, you even have a “field trip” to one of these clubs in Harlem).


What I mean by a less “central” social scene is that you won’t find everyone from the school cheering on the lions at a football game. It’s not a type of culture where you are always hanging out on campus like you would on a more rural campus(e.x. Cornell); there really is no campus “culture.” To paraphrase a TheU video from youtube, a student expressed her views as the following: “Students are on campus to get their business done. There’s no one to hold your hand.”


That’s not at all to say you’re lonely or isolated in any way; you can always ask someone in the dorms if they want to grab a bite to eat or something. You can always find someone to hang out with on campus. Just don’t expect to get the community feeling of being together all at once like you would at an athletic event(at a big athletic school) or a big house party on a rural campus.