The Ten WORST Things About Columbia

  • 1 A sometimes sluggish bureaucracy

  • 2 Cost of education and cost of living

  • 3 The eternal dilemma—studying or doing something cool and interesting in NYC

  • 4 Cramped housing

  • 5 The time it takes to settle into your niche

  • 6 Lerner Hall—the ugliest, most useful building on campus

  • 7 The fact that it’s not as well located as NYU

  • 8 Never being able to get a seat in Butler library

  • 9 The very slow and disorganized mail system and package rooms

  • 10 Coming home to your high school friends who haven’t had nearly as interesting a year as you have