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Just to add to what Kelly Ann has replied, I think it’s important to remember that although Barnard is a women’s college, you can really create your own experience here (kind of like those science fiction novels “Create your own adventure”). I often refer to the Barnard environment as layered: from the women’s liberal arts college, to the larger University community, to Morningside Heights, to New York City. Although our dorms and a lot of our classes are single-sex, we live in a co-ed world, and there exist boys outside of Columbia! I met my best friend (who is a Columbia male student) through class, and through him met a ton of my other guy friends.

Aside from meeting male friends (and boyfriends) at Columbia, the women’s college community at Barnard really fosters the self confidence and leadership skills in the classroom and in clubs that can be immediately applied to co-ed experiences, maybe a lecture class at Columbia that follows your “Women and Culture” first year seminar at Barnard. This is what the balance and flexibility is all about, for me at least.

I was talking to a friend who goes to Smith recently, who said she felt uncomfortable in one of her Hampshire classes with 8 males and 3 females, since all of her classes up to this point in her senior year have been all female. The difference at Barnard is that we have that single sex environment complemented by “real world” situations, which I think make the single sex education ultimately more valuable.

As for your other questions, I agree with Kelly Ann about the cliques, in that I have not experienced any catty-ness while a student here. It’s like the best parts of a sorority on a larger scale. You definitely recognize people you see on campus and it’s an immediate connection and understanding of one another. Although all of our students are high achievers, amazing, and talented, I don’t think of the tone on campus as competitive, but rather inspirational and collaborative. We help each other out and want to see our friends and peers succeed.

I am assigned to the Wellness hallway for the EcoReps program and Kelly Ann summed it up well. There are several programs throughout each semester that focus on different health issues. I recently organized a potluck day with the wellwoman peer educator for the Wellness hall. We took a group of students to the local farmers market to talk about local and organic food with one of the farmers, while we picked out our produce that was later used in a “healthful cooking demo” in the peer educator’s suite kitchen. After the cooking, we dug in at a “potluck” dinner in the floor’s TV lounge. This is just one example of an event, but the hallway really just has an overall understanding that everyone there wants to take care of their bodies, minds, and spirits by eating thoughtfully, exercising and avoiding harmful substances.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!

-Mariel

I’m so happy you’re considering Barnard- I’ll do my best to answer your questions…
First, I don’t really notice cliques on campus. Everyone is generally friendly and accepting of everyone else, which is something I really like. Overall, Barnard girls are nice, friendly people, and we tend to bond just over being Barnard students. For example, yesterday I was in JCrew with my mom, and I noticed another girl I recognized from school. We had never met before, but we had Barnard in common, so we started talking and had a really nice conversation. This has happened so many times (even in Spain!)- you will be amazed at how warm and friendly Barnard students/alumnae are.

Its definitely not difficult to meet guy friends. First, as I know someone mentioned earlier, orientation is between both Barnard and Columbia, so you’ll meet guys your very first day here. Also, my personal recommendation is to join clubs/activities at Columbia. Most of my guy friends have come from church group or running club at Columbia, so they share my interests as well. I remember it was a big concern of mine before I got here, and then a month into my first year I realized I had nothing to worry about.

Finally, I am honestly still learning about wellness programming (I actually have a meeting next week to start my “wellness training”). The RA this past year picked a basic theme each month and than worked with different offices around campus to plan events to correlate with the theme (some of them have included healthy eating, heart health, ect.). She did a really great job and it seemed to work well with that format, so I’m going to try to stick to that next year.

Let me know if I can answer any other questions-

Kelly Ann