<p>this was discussed somewhere in a previous thread I had read, but now I can't locate it. Which facility do you guys find has the cheapest comparative prices of the ON CAMPUS food choices? I had an $8 turkey sandwich today so I'm pretty sick..</p>
<p>All the food on campus is expensive. If you want to eat cheap, go to the street. Street vendors are fast, very inexpensive, and somehow weatherproof.</p>
<p>A good idea would be to buy food from this thing we call a grocery store. You might have heard of it? Its filled with food that you can eat for a fraction of the price of one Columbia sandwich.</p>
<p>are you having a rough semester/time, RandomAdmit? Your other response, posted erroneously in the wrong thread, is also tinged with sarcasm. Here you managed to completely avoid my question of ON CAMPUS food. Thanks for playing though…</p>
<p>Street vendors, if you want cheap. Otherwise everything is expensive. I tend to go to the sandwich shop in the basement of Avery, Brownie’s, but it’s not cheap.</p>
<p>A few blocks off campus you have some more options, like Amir’s or HamDel, but you’re still better off cooking yourself.</p>
<p>…shots fired</p>
<p>Iggs, attempting to draw connections with my academic progression and nitpicking how I comment on this board speaks volumes of your seemingly immature personality. People here responding to everyones comments are already at Columbia, and are attempting to address concerns as a courtesy. Additionally, as a new student, I would like to point out the failure to walk in, or around Columbia’s small campus/neighborhood and conduct your own research on what types of food are cheap raises a lot of questions on your own abilities as a normal, and functioning human being. I honestly wondered if you were handicapped. </p>
<p>Anyway, as stated earlier, I understood your dilemma on “cheap eats” around campus. Maybe you should touch base with reality and recognize that buying food in, or around Columbia may not be feasible for someone wanting to save the most money they can. My opinion is that if someone complains about how expensive food is around campus, then they obviously aren’t aware where they are. I have rubbed shoulders with people with this same issue at the gym, at my research lab in the engineering school, and within the GSSC. What I found was that the person who worries about price usually has very little money to begin with… And because they dont have money to begin with, only means that people, like yourself, need to save money. So economically speaking, the best option is to smooth consumption by buying cheap groceries bought in bulk and bringing your food to school so that would effectively eliminate the concern of finding “Cheap” food that doesn’t make you sick because you would have control of what is going into your food, and you would be saving money doing so.</p>
<p>Im not attempting to be a ■■■■■, or spur a huge debate. But I have to admit that I was a little irritated by your question to begin with, which is why my response was the way that it was.</p>
<p>RandomAdmit, I may say that I really don’t give a damn about what irritated you to begin with. There’s an old Russian aphorism that goes something along the lines of “If you’re irritated, hit your head against the wall.” I suggest for you to do the same if you find your level of irritation boiling over to where you can no longer contain yourself. In regards to my “immature personality,” I don’t think you know me well enough–or at all–to draw any conclusions. But if you choose to do so on basis of my casual internet inquiry seeking input from experienced campus undergrads, then that speaks louder volumes about your maturity, or lack thereof. If your idea of “addressing concerns as a courtesy” is sarcastic, useless quips, then I think you will be better served keeping your courtesy to yourself as you obviously lack basic social etiquette of self restraint. As a New Yorker of 7 years, I think I have a little firmer grasp on costs of living and consumption than you. It’s funny that you mention I seemed handicapped–I assure you, I’m much more cognizant and familiar with Manhattan and it’s surrounding neighborhoods than you. If you’d like, I can even take you on some tours. See what I did there? I sincerely hope you don’t carry yourself in real life the way you do online, because academic success notwithstanding, you are in for some challenging times ahead. Good day to you.</p>
<p>Iggs, My apologies that you did not score with the opposite sex, or make any friends at Prohibition last night. Which probably has caused you to go babbling about in a fit of rage against an anonymous poster on College Confidential. I too can do the same thing and attempt to belittle your status, or lack thereof, by talking about my successes of not only obtaining a research position at Columbia, but how I successfully landed my first summer internship at a boutique financial firm last week after only one semester as a GS student. You’re right, I am definitely going to have some challenging times ahead figuring out those darn DCF’s and LBO’s. That, in and of itself, should qualify me for something, right? But saying those things would be as futile and irrelevant as your statement of living in New York for seven years is. You should be embarrassed that you even attempted to qualify yourself as some sort of “experienced” New Yorker. Since what you are really proving here is that after seven years of living in the city, you can not even figure out something as trivial as locating the cheapest food within a six-block radius, much less take me on a tour through five boroughs. The utter irony is the fact that you knowingly had to seek consultation from a group of people that have been living in New York for far less than you have is completely laughable. If all you can do is fixate yourself on how people post versus what is actually being said, then you sir are in for some rough times ahead. I suggest starting off with anger management and Prozac.</p>
<p>RandomAdmit, it seems that you have a hard time staying on topic so this will be my last post directed towards you. Evidenced by your selective reading or lack of reading comprehension, you continue to embarrass yourself through misguided tangents and presumptions that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Not only did I score with a member of the opposite sex-- I live with one in my own apartment–I don’t even know what Prohibition night is! I think this fact alone is telling not only of my independence from the Columbia campus, but the my life outside of it. Seemingly unlike yourself, I do not need validation from “Prohibition night” as I have friends and a social life outside of campus. I don’t know if mentioning your success at some internship is your effort at some kind of thinly veiled show of bravado, but it’s completely irrelevant to the topic at hand, and it’s a tactless effort reeking of inferiority complex. By an extension of your faulty logic, claiming that I am an un-savy New Yorker, any native New Yorker unfamiliar with cheap food in the literally dozens of sub-neighborhoods from Little Italy, to the village, to chinatown, to chelsea, to the bowery, to the upper east and west sides–lifelong New Yorkers, mind you–are “ignorant.” If you had any grasp of how things work here, you’d realize that literally every five block radius in New York is like a separate city and culture unto itself. I’d like to hear you argue your thesis to someone who’s lived here his whole life. It’s really really unfortunate how you clearly and inadvertently betray yourself as an outside, tantamount to one walking around in an “I Love New York” t-shirt. Anyway, once again, thank’s for the constructive input and helpful advice in this, the most basic of questions. May God truly have mercy on anyone who ever seeks your counsel, as you, my friend, are in DIRE need of anger management. I sincerely wish you the best of luck because–and this is all jesting aside–you will need it to compensate for your lack of social etiquette and restraint.</p>
<p>They should delete this thread. No one on this website logs on to see this kind of stuff.</p>
<p>You mean verbal sparring isn’t a spectator sport?</p>
<p>Personally, I’m all for any threads that start with “where can i find cheap…”.</p>
<p>There should be more. It would just be better if people were helpful.</p>
<p>Agreed. I too am instantly intrigued by cheapest, especially when followed directly by food.</p>
<p>cheap/cheapest can mean something different to everyone. To me it means the best bang for your buck.</p>