<p>I am really interested in Columbia, but is it a school filled with brainiacs, or are there dorm parties every weekends? Is it like every other school in that aspect. I really want to experience the true college experience...so let me know. thanks</p>
<p>Well people here are very intelligent and they do study a lot, but as far as I can tell they substitute fun for sleeping. This can mean parties, clubbing, or doing other things around the city.</p>
<p>Short answer: yes there are parties if you are so inclined.</p>
<p>i live in John Jay and have not really experienced dorm parties in the sense that people get together to drink in someone's dorm or something like that. my floormates and i usually just hang out in the hallway, talk and listen to each other's music. We even had a poetry slam/creative writing party in our hallway once and yesterday some of us got together and watched a movie in one of the bigger dorms. I imagine a lot of other floors have fun in this way, too.</p>
<p>upperclass dorms have more dorm parties - you pretty much need a suite for that (East Campus, Ruggles, Hogan, Woodbridge, Watt, etc).</p>
<p>There's still plenty of fun to be had off-campus (moreso when you have something that says you're 21, of course... I recommend the Vesalvay solution of copying your passport and editing the image). Join a few student groups or clubs and you'll have people to hang out with.</p>
<p>The real difference between columbia and a "typical rural college experience" social scene is that social life doesn't revolve around the frats/sororities. there's a lot more social diversity.</p>
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<p>As I said before, I'm inclined to think that this significantly more dangerous than having a typical fake Montana driver's license. Something tells me that falsifying a United States passport could theoretically land you in serious trouble.</p>
<p>the point is that he's a foreign national, so they have every reason to give credence to his statement that he can't bring the original around because if he loses it, he gets deported.</p>
<p>plus the bartenders don't know what a Dutch passport looks like.</p>
<p>I didn't mean anything was wrong with people who study alot, because I know they are very intelligent. Thats how you get into Columbia. But thanks for the responses as well.</p>
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the point is that he's a foreign national, so they have every reason to give credence to his statement that he can't bring the original around because if he loses it, he gets deported.
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<p>You didn't specify that he's a foreigner (didn't know he is), and knowing that, the tip is accordingly unhelpful for 90+% of Columbians.</p>
<p>Does this really work for him other than at desperate places that depend on underage business and where you just have to show <em>something</em> to get in the door? It's absolutely not credible that you'll get <em>deported</em> by the United States if your original passport is lost or stolen.</p>
<p>i'm about to try this next year since i'm only a permanent resident and still have a korean passport.</p>
<p>^ i already have :]</p>
<p>haha how's your success been so far?</p>
<p>lmao i just act like i try to scrummage and try to find id in my wallet when they ask for it. i then say aiahh no id, then "suddenly" remember that i have a photocopy of my korean passport somewhere in my bag. take it out, show it, and i'm good to go. i haven't been rejected anywhere yet, and to be honest for all of the effort that i put into the act it would be quite cruel for someone to reject me lol.</p>
<p>ahhhh last night's hookah and beer was the best :]</p>
<p>balllaaaa. i'm really hoping i get in early decision at columbia :). soooo bad.</p>
<p>now i just need to figure out how i'm gonna get into bars and clubs this summer in korea. i can't figure out if i'll be legal when i go over this summer. all my friends are giving me conflicting answers.</p>
<p>lmao i can answer that as well.</p>
<p>you need to be 19 in western age, so adding a year for eastern age doesn't count. Most clubs will check id, even for pretty girls. They'll ask for your meen jing.</p>
<p>To be honest I had conflicting responses during my last visit to korea trying to get into clubs. For the clubs at Korea I pulled out my canadian passport, but the thing is I was 18 at the time. Some will say close enough get in, some doofuses need a bribe to let ya in and stuff haha. Bottom line is try to borrow a meen jing from an older cousin. For alcohol and cigarettes most of the franchise convenience stores are really strict about checking id if you look relatively young, while the goo mung ga gaes don't even care lmao. I saw a high school student buy cigarettes in his uniform haha.</p>
<p>Where you staying in Korea? I'm actually going again for 2 weeks, then headin off to Beijing this summer.</p>
<p>So are there or aren't there parties, on campus? I dont mean like poetry parties or
"listen to each others music", that doesn't really interest me. And you've made it seem like you have to have a fake ID or some other form of ID to do anything in the city, but I'm talking about on campus.
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<p>there are some frat parties, one of which will occasionally be pretty good. and people have parties in suites, although i haven't really been that impressed by dorm parties at columbia.</p>
<p>yeah I mean I'm a freshman in carman. Usually what we do is get drunk in someone's room and just hang out. Occasionally we pregame and go out into the city--like one time we just went and wandered around Times Square being complete tourists but I mean, it's pretty chill. Which is kind of ironic cause people here are so freaking uptight. I guess a lot of times people just need to unwind---they do this by being classy and drinking wine. </p>
<p>but yeah, people definitely do study a lot and if you want a legit drinking culture join any type of jocky sports team cause they do that a lot. I'm from New England and I definitely appreciate getting drunk off of beer and playing drinking games, but besides with the frats and the people who play drinking games, it doesn't seem to be that popular.</p>
<p>"Which is kind of ironic cause people here are so freaking uptight."
Are you from the west coast? cuz that's one of the things that makes me wonder if I even want to go to Columbia, or the east coast in general, is it really that different in terms of laidback-ness, if that's a word, but i mean, i come from a VERY laidback place, all we have is hippies and weed..</p>
<p>If all you want is hippies and weed, don't go to Columbia. Check out Hampshire College.</p>
<p>If you want a conservative sprinkling of hippies and weed, amongst an otherwise highly motivated, driven and passionate student body who generate their own opportunities for leadership and making a difference, Columbia may be a decent fit.</p>
<p>Students tend to be laid back in the sense of not taking themselves too seriously or being arrogant, but more intense in their pursuit of their interests and in opportunities. As the admissions propaganda line goes, nothing is handed to you at Columbia, you have to go out and take it - but it's there for the taking.</p>
<p>I went to a college this weekend to visit the school and on saturday night we just went pregamed with a few friends in a dorm and went to a frat, where people played beer pong, flip cup and daced. Can that be expected to happen fairly often at Columbia. This school has an open-door policy on alcohol in dorms does Columbia? So basically If I want to get wasted every Friday and Saturday night with other students will I have that opportunity on campus?</p>