<p>re: street fairs. the 110-116 street corridor has a street fair once a month from april to september. columbia students only see it twice, if you stay over the summer, you see it monthly. the 106-110 corridor usually has it a week after columbia. then there are the street fairs that are everywhere else in the city during the summer. it is not a columbia centered event, but a common occurrence during the summer. further - you were in a way experiencing columbia in april. every april EVERYTHING happens all at once, so it is pretty much what life is like. no bait and switch. so don’t pretend that the weekend was how your life would be like every year, but rather that would be your life every april (and september) at columbia. prolly why april is mine and most columbian’s favorite month. the remaining months are mostly dominated by indoor activities - lerner hall, butler - and that city you get to go everywhere in. so whereas columbia is like the rest of the northeast colleges with the bad winters, you actually have something to do in said bad time and great springs/falls (and summers if you stick around).</p>
<p>I didn’t read all the comments but I just wanted to say about the dorms—I’m sitting here in carman right now and my room is for sure very clean and beautiful. Ok the floors are linoleum and the walls are cinderblock, but I have a beautiful view, I love my private bathroom RIGHT THERE (which occasionally does accumulate dishes in the leaky sink), and my roommate and I keep our room reasonable neat. I don’t think you should judge this dorm based on the one dirty room you saw…did you actually look at the layout? The huge closets? The huge window and storage spaces? and above all the private bathroom? And about the stained carpet, you’re in college. People are gonna throw up on the carpet and stain it an ugly yellow. Get over it. </p>
<p>And sorry if this sounds mean, but I just really really like carman and I’m pretty sad to be leaving it in a couple of weeks</p>
<p>A parent’s point of view of the dorms at Columbia: Carman: Dirty dump with no style. JJ: Shabby with style. Furnald: nice but a bit picked up a nerd vibe – didn’t seem fun. LLC: interesting – saw two units - one was homey and the other sterile – both had kitchen dishes piled high. Conclusion - JJ single followed by LLC, then Carman and then Furnald. All were disappointing compared with other schools, but the main purpose of going to Columbia isn’t for the dorm experience - it is for the University and the city of New York.</p>