By Becky Miller Picture a 20-year-old Delaney Wellington, BC ’23, sitting at a side-of-the-highway bar in Nashville, waiting for her turn...

By Sophie Poole ‘Bechdeltest’ is a word Gustie Owens, BC ’22, wants to use in a future crossword puzzle. (The Bechdel test evaluates...

By Becky Miller The night of the tree lighting—a glamorous Columbia tradition where the whole university gathers on College Walk to watch...

By Dariya Subkhanberdina As a loyal, if not compulsive, Depop shopper for years now, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat giddy while...

By Michaela Sawyer Kassia Karras, BC ’22, used to be known as “Mrs. UnlocktheSwehg.” These days, she sports the username “Purified Smoke”...

By Miska Lewis I met Rachel Broder last spring, when chance brought us to the same discussion section of our 200-person Anthropology of...

By Nicole Kohut Although he denies it, Harris Solomon, CC ’22, has earned his status as a campus character through three separate avenues...

By Sam Needleman I have been lucky to know, in my four years of half-fledged college life, four full-fledged graduates of Beyoncé’s high...

By Cy Gilman Before meeting me at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on a balmy autumn afternoon last month, Forrest Eimold, CC ’22, was...

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By Annelie Hyatt To set foot in Aerobics Room 4 is to stumble past people retying the strings of their uniforms while shinais (kendo...

By Sam Needleman There’s a story Patrick Phelan, CC ’22, likes to share with anyone who has just discovered the folder in his camera roll...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider Venice Ohleyer, CC ’22, is funny. Her hair is green, but it was pink last year, and sometimes it’s rainbow. She...

By Claire Shang If you stand outside a certain nondescript office building in Dumbo, you’ll see a free-standing whiteboard, just visible...

By Sadia Haque When I sat down with Makeen Zachery, BC ’22, her jocund attitude made it easy to forget her intimidatingly impressive...

By Eliza Rudalevige In one of her most recent Instagram posts, Xixi Wang, BC ’22, beams before a black and yellow Times Square billboard;...

By Grace Adee Last February, rising indie pop star and producer Sarah Kinsley, CC ’22, sampled her childhood bedroom. In a playful retort...

By Elizabeth Jackson My first introduction to Joel Meyers, CC ’21, involved watching from the mezzanine as he alternately bounded and...

By Lyla Trilling In high school, Adam Glusker, CC ’21, was not cast in RENT his senior year. This is significant because, in my mind,...

By Jai Qureshi Hong Kiu Mak, CC ’21, an accomplished violinist now graduating from the Columbia-Juilliard Program, joins our Zoom call...