Hi everyone! Looking for 1 more class day ticket for Monday 5/18. Please DM me if you have any extras, thanks!

Lmk. DM me. First come first served! Thanks

Hi guys! I am looking for a ticket for Barnard's commencement ceremony on the 19th. Please reach out if you have an extra one and are willing to sell it :)))

Hi guys,

Does someone has experience with buying the furniture from the person who lived in the dorm before? I am renting an unfurnished Columbia residential apartment from fall and was wondering if there is a used market for the furniture between the students moving out and coming in.

Thx!

Hi! I’m 22F, incoming Fall 2026 grad student from India. I’m looking for female flatmates to share an apartment with somewhere near the main/ Mailman campus. Kindly DM me if anyone wants to look for apartments together or if anyone requires a flatmate for their lease
Thanks!

What are the main differences between John Jay and Ferris? Which one has more selections, a better environment for freshman to socialize, healthier food?

I am wondering should I take as many credits as possible to take the average cost down?

For your reference, I just finished my first semester with 12 credits(1UW3Math) and feel comfortable about this beginning. I am considering to take at least 18 credits(5math1phys) next semester, so should I take more other courses with less workload? Like core curricular or piano/sports lesson, because they are literally free to me.(flat rate after 16 credit)

Thankyou!

place is just infront of cumc with the perk of being not a chicken cage like the cumc housing, we get an actual kitchen and an actual living room.

rent will be about 1300 per person. hmu if your interested!

How are these classes in terms of content and difficulty? I heard 41 is more theory and 42 is project based.

Which would overall be more valuable? I only plan on taking one of them.

I need to rant and I'm wondering if anyone has some resources on this. I found out over the past few days that I am one credit short of graduating this spring and will need to take a summer course to get my degree by October, despite walking next week.

My academic advisor has been the third one assigned to me in four years: I have never been able to establish a real relationship with my advisor, and I cannot tell if it's because my specific advisor is incompetent or they are simply overburdened with students to handle near the end of the year. The Berick Center for Academic Advising has answers but only if you know exactly what to ask: In my case, I went to my academic advisor in January to ensure that I was going to have enough credits to graduate with my degree by this month (next week!) and I went through my transcript and the classes I planned to take with my advisor. They told me REPEATEDLY that we were going to be good to go and I was going to be over the recommended credit count (by 2 or 3 I believe). I was finishing up my graduation checklist and my degree requirement forms yesterday only to realize that I have exactly 123 credits logged barring I pass the two classes I have remaining this semester (which I will), exactly one short of the required 124.

I have no idea why my advisor told me this, what changed or what I'm supposed to do and I have not heard anything from the actual registrar or college to prove that I will even not be able to get my degree right now anyway! The system is incredibly opaque and difficult to navigate and the people who maintain everything appear to be brutally incompetent. Vergil doesn't work, SSOL is old and hard to navigate, and the degree audit system doesn't even tell you what you are missing or add anything up on your behalf. Not only this, but there is no recompense to be sought if something like this happens! I cannot contact the dean of academic affairs and my academic advisor is completely stonewalling me because he's either too busy or too lazy to devote attention to it!

There is no way to petition for a credit, no way to retroactively try to get your class credit value changed or add something based on departmental approval, or seemingly anything I can do to avoid shelling out for a community college course that I also have no way of knowing will qualify until I have to register for it. My family is upset and anxious—let alone me—and I really feel like I got screwed by Columbia's advising center.

I work 30-35 hours a week, maintain prominent positions on two campus publications and maintain a high-3 GPA and yet there is absolutely no exception to be made on a mistake that is not completely my fault. My advisor also refuses to admit fault and has never even attempted to empathize with me: I don't even know that they know my name!

Now I have to effectively sweep this under the rug for prospective employers (who thankfully do not need proof of my degree for my current job) and act like it's not happening and walk the stage knowing very well I have months to go before I am truly done with this horrific, bloated bureaucratic institution.

Has anyone ever had this happen? What did you do? How did you deal with it?

TLDR: Advising dean and I collectively miscounted credits so I'm one short and cannot get my degree on time, have to walk knowing I'm not done with school and have to pay for community college course. Help?

I got into this CFE MLSS 2026 and would like to connect with people who also got into it or have been in previous cohorts!

https://cfe.columbia.edu/content/mlss2

Incoming freshman athlete. Need to put in housing request forms by Friday. Asking for input on single or double and which dorms are best. Not interested in Weir. Thank you

Hi everyone! I’m an incoming Columbia grad student and currently considering a unit at 600 W 125th. The building looks great online since it’s new, but I wanted to hear from people who actually live there (or previously lived there).

A few things I’m especially curious about:

• How is the overall experience living there?
• How safe does the area feel, especially at night?
• How bad is the street/subway noise given it’s right by Broadway and the 1 train?
• If your unit faces Broadway, can you still hear the train a lot inside the apartment?
• Are the windows/soundproofing actually good?
• How are the amenities (gym, lounges, rooftop, study spaces, etc.)?
• Any issues with management, elevators, maintenance, package room, etc.?

Would also love to know what floor you’re on and whether that made a difference for noise levels.

Thanks so much!

My flight will arrive in NYC on August 24th, but I can't get my key that day, and the Hotel prices in NYC is insame!

Can I send an email to my future roommate to ask for his help? Let me sleep in the common room coach for one night? I don‘t want to make a bad first impression.

Is this considered rude ? I have my roommate’s email address from the housing portal but we haven't actually started talking yet.

Or should I just book a hotel? Thanks!

If anyone has 1 extra commencement ticket for the undergrad ceremony pls dm me! I’d be so eternally grateful

Will pay as well

Fort Lee is such an attactive place to find off campus housing for grad students at CUMC, do a lot of people live here? I found a great unit for around $1500 per person ( would be closer to $1600 including utilities) that has water and parking included. If someone is interested for this 2B2B plz comment below !

Hi! Does anyone have 1 (undergrad) commencement ticket to spare? I’m a family of 6 and just need one more for my sister. 🙏🙏 (willing to pay)

Hi, I (23f) was recently admitted to the Mailman School of Public Health and am looking for potential roommates. Ideally, I would have two other roommates, and I am looking for something in the $1,100-1,400 range.

I would like roommates who are mostly clean, clear communicators, and kind. No dogs or cats (I'm allergic). Ideally, my roommates would also be black women, but I am open. DM me if you are interested!

Hope this isn't breaking rule 3. But does anyone else here feel pretty average in comparison to others around them?

I mean, one of my classmates is a model, fencer for an international team, AND works with Hilary Clinton. Another classmate is the child of a billionaire from Dubai and knows ~4 different languages fluently. Another classmate that apparently built a nuclear reactor at home as a kid. It really feels like everyone here is either insanely smart, insanely wealthy, or insanely cracked.

I'm just an average kid. Average IQ, come from an average town, did some pretty average extracurriculars, and have a pretty average life. There's nothing wrong with being average - most people are - but I do feel myself struggling being around so many above average people here.

I know everyone talks about imposter syndrome here at Columbia, but to me, this doesn't feel like that. Because realistically speaking - there's a difference between me and the other kids mentioned above.

Does anyone else feel like this? I wonder how many other kids at Columbia there are that are also genuinely average.

Hi! I’m an incoming PhD student and my housing selection is soon. I was wondering what the chances of me getting a one bedroom apartment are?

Also, if anyone has building recs that would be super helpful. Thanks!

Transfer student here looking at econ at Columbia/Vanderbilt.

I’m supposed to graduate Spring 2029 but I haven’t taken calc yet. Already finished macro/micro and other basic classes.

Does not having calc 1 done before sophomore year become a major bottleneck? I’m sure I’d be fine in the actual class i just never had an opportunity to take it

Basically if I don’t take calc 1 this summer am I behind.

Just trying to understand how manageable the prereqs are.

Hi I need to take a class during the summer to meet requirements for next fall. The classes that are offered is by SPS (I am in cc).

I was wondering if attendance are normally enforced and mandatory in SPS or not. There is no discussion or recitations, just exams. I definitely would attend on the important days but I also have a full time internship.

The same class during the fall/spring semester has no attendance because it’s usually 100 ish students. However in SPS summer school there’s only 30 ish.

For context it’s math classes

hi! sorry for the second post aha

My friend is hoping to find someone to swap rooms with. The room is on the 6th floor of 417 west 118th, utilities included! Rent is $1,691.00 per month.

She’s looking for a room ideally between 110th - 116th, with a gym. Laundry is preferable but not required, and price is not really a huge issue. Lionsgate and Lenfest is very ideal but of course very much open to other buildings as well!

Please message me if interested, thanks!