<p>In front of Philosophy, Avery and I think it's now around Lewisohn. It's been there for like a month and it makes me almost want to throw up.</p>
<p>Is this some sort of prank?</p>
<p>It's the smell of our fear of getting rejected from Columbia. Either that, or a dead homeless person...</p>
<p>The whole city smells horrible. What else is new? Move along people...</p>
<p>I think it's fertilizer that they're putting on before snow comes... either that or a lot of people puked there all at once.</p>
<p>C2002, maybe you should move to a new neighborhood, it does not smell like s where I live.</p>
<p>truazn, that's what I thought too but fertilizer smell goes away after a few days. That's it! I'm writing a letter.</p>
<p>This worthless complaint seriously merits a post? Let me get in on the action.</p>
<p>What's up with security guards? I mean, they're so slow in swiping you in. Is this a prank? I may have to write a letter! Or wallow in my self-righteous indignation! Arghh!</p>
<p>(And if you're kidding--which you're not--it's a bad joke.) :::Raspberry:::</p>
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<p>You're probably desensitized by the smell if you've lived in NYC for long enough. I am too, but I still realize it smells. I've lived in several 'hoods (including one that's pretty swanky), and it still smells like NYC.</p>
<p>WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?</p>
<p>-She didnt know what to say....</p>
<p>Isn't indignation by it's nature self-righteous?</p>
<p>And while we're on the subject, is it too much to ask that all vending machines on campus accept Flex points/the Columbia card? Cash, let alone carrying coins, is so last century. CU must face forward or face the possibility of shock and damage.</p>
<p>1) No, indignation is not by nature self-righteous 2) Don't apply the rules of Strunk and White to irony. Or, really, anything. 3) This post is an example of self-righteous indignation</p>
<p>1,2,3) That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Proper word choice and non-redundancy are essential to irony.</p>
<p>It smells like Pupin. At least that the jive I get whenever I need to go there.</p>
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<p>i would be happy columbia decided to screw the laws of economics and instead of having price discrimination with the vending machines, all machines had the same prices no matter the location. for example, i know that if i walk to mudd i can get a 1$ bottle of coke where as it's 1.50$ if i walk downstairs in EC....annoying as hell? yes.</p>
<p>Yeah, they were laying down manure.</p>
<p>Well, from a business perspective, maybe Columbia should raise all of its prices, after all rich people go there a lot, just make sure the not-so-rich don't suffer. NYU has a policy in which they charge an arm and leg for everything even things that you can get for free (ie, if you need to fix ur apple computers hard drive, the apple store is free, the nyu store and arm and leg).</p>
<p>I don't think Columbia is using economics for its prices its probably like set it and forget it and who cares, why is Columbia selling coke anyways, I know nyu banned it.</p>
<p>I don't get it -- CU should use business sense and economics, but they should ban coke (I presume you mean the soft drink)?</p>
<p>"I don't think Columbia is using economics for its prices its probably like set it and forget it and who cares, why is Columbia selling coke anyways, I know nyu banned it."</p>
<p>it does use economic sense, East campus is a dorm in the higher pricing bracket and so they know those really budget constrained will not live there. otherwise columbia attracts rich kids, but has many poor ones also, they're not simply a business, they're an educational institute with some ethics, profit maximization and education opportunity maximization don't neccessarily coincide.</p>
<p>coke's awesome, nyu's dumb as sht for banning it, because there are supermarkets across the street from everything, so if they can't curb consumption, might as well share in the profit, not that the profit contributes significantly to anything.</p>