When Brian Daley, a then-high school senior in Boise, Idaho, applied to college, he knew he would study computer science. An ambitious student, Daley was a U.S. Presidential Scholars Program candidate ...

I first joined Spec as a joke. Throughout my freshman fall, during a raging pandemic, I regularly heard stories about how toxic the Spec environment was. People around me prepped days in advance of ...

The School of Engineering and Applied Science community celebrated the accomplishments of the class of 2025 on Monday at its annual Class Day ceremony, hosted on Columbia’s Morningside campus. SEAS ...

When my editor in the fall of 2023 first asked me to consider applying (“shooting”) to succeed her as Arts & Culture editor at Spectator, my instinctive reply was, “I don’t know what the fuck I’m ...

“Nothing lasts forever,” Maude Latour, CC ’22, sings on “One More Weekend,” a nostalgia-ridden plea for just another moment in New York City. As a starry-eyed freshman, I sat across from Maude outside ...

The aches were as light as breath at first, charting a course through my wrists, knees, and neck. I ignored them like I ignored every other curious bodily discomfort, and left them to be dispelled by ...

A last-minute nudge from a friend is what launched Mariam Jallow, CC ’25, into her four-year journey in student government. The outgoing Columbia College Student Council president, Jallow has spent ...

“The fact is, in practice, free speech is hard. It is counterintuitive and it requires real effort to live by its expectations. … We have, over time, come to realize that we need to learn how to ...

Author’s note: I have written my senior column as a braided essay: a series of distinct vignettes and reflections across time placed in thematic—not chronological—order that I see as exemplative of my ...

When I tell my future kids about what it was like to be at Columbia during four years of tumultuous campus life, I will tell them about my time on Spec Photo. When I was a freshman struggling to find ...

Phoebe Anderson, CC ’24, ended her collegiate career on a high. After a standout performance at the 2024 Northeast Regional competition, she punched her ticket to the NCAA Cross Country ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Afghan education activist and co-founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, will deliver Barnard’s 2025 Commencement address on Tuesday, the college announced in a ...