The Varsity Show

The Varsity Show this year was AMAZING!!!!!!!!
For those unacquainted with the concept, The V Show is one of Columbia’s more amusing campus traditions, an original student musical performed every Spring. This year marked the 114th year of the V Show, and if I may say so, the best one ever (including the time a young [...]

CU Roadrunners

My entire life I have always played sports, so when I got to Barnard, I was looking for a way to stay involved. I decided to join Columbia University Roadrunners, our school’s running club affiliated with New York Roadrunners. The club has a great relationship with New York Roadrunners, who lets us each run four [...]

Spring flings

Columbia “steps it up” on the events once we return from Spring Break. Last night, to kick off earth week, an environmental group and the student council at Columbia put on a screening of Planet Earth on a huge screen on Low Plaza. It served as an excellent theater, but it also often is used [...]

phew! what a week!

Wow, is it only Wednesday? I’m out of sorts, maybe because I was home in Pennsylvania for a family wedding in Philadelphia over the weekend, but it has been quite the week since returning on Sunday afternoon. I went to the Guggenheim that day with two of my best friends to see the current exhibit [...]

NYC – more than just monkey bars and swings

Magnolia Tree on campus (Nexus in the background!)
First of all, I just wanted to remind everyone that comments are welcome and encouraged!

Sunny day…

Barnard in the sunshine

“Not your typical beauty pageant”

Thursday night, my sorority held “Mr. Fraternity”, a beauty pageant for fraternity boys that serves as our annual charity fundraiser. Each fraternity had one contestant who was “coached” by members of my sorority in a talent, swimwear, toga, and formalwear competition.
I got to be my brother’s coach, along with my friends Lauren (CC ‘10) and [...]

Barnard here, Barnard there…

Emma and Me in Venice

Racing Rutgers

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in New Jersey, and when I decided to attend a women’s college in New York City, many of my friends believed me to be crazy. I, however, remained convince of my sanity—that is until I found myself on a 6am bus with about 30 stinky boys [...]

Greek Life at Columbia

During my first few weeks at Barnard, I decided I wanted to get involved in the Columbia community. I had never given much thought to joining a sorority, but as I met some of the upperclassmen involved in different Greek organizations, I began to seriously consider it. After seeing flyers for recruitment posted around campus, [...]