<p>I'm going to be visiting Columbia soon. I was wondering if there's anything not usually featured on the campus tour that's still worth visiting.</p>
<p>um, off-campus places, academic buildings depending on your interest</p>
<p>Oh, I meant on-campus places.</p>
<p>the columbia tunnels</p>
<p>The area. Just start walking down (so the street numbers get smaller) Broadway till ~110th street. You get a feeling for the neighborhood around Columbia and all of the resources we have locally. </p>
<p>I think the coolest place that you can’t really go is the library. It has so many beautiful rooms that tours aren’t allowed to go into.</p>
<p>I went on a summer tour when I first started here, so not sure if this is typical, but we didn’t go into any of the dorms or see the rooms.</p>
<p>I agree about the area- you should take a step off campus! There is quite a bit around Columbia (I was delighted to see Pinkberry!). </p>
<p>When I visited there was also no mention of their Stadium (which is not attached to campus), the tunnels and the libraries. I did a group tour with a program I did so we did not see any of the dorms up close and personal- but things might be different with a “regular” tour. Im sure someone else could say whether tours go into dorms or not. </p>
<p>Also, I do believe there is some new construction on campus…</p>
<p>The hipsters cutting themselves in their rooms. ;)</p>
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<p>Yeah, I guess that’s something they wouldn’t like to advertise. But they at least show the hipsters doing drugs, right?</p>
<p>If you want hipsters goto NYU.</p>
<p>Tours don’t go into any of the dorms, but they should detail the setup and facilities in each freshman dorm.</p>
<p>If you want to see hipsters (suicidal or otherwise), go to Washington Square Park. As for Columbia, I concur that you should check out Morningside Heights. Just walk a few blocks down Broadway. They pretty much show you everything on the 116th street campus during the tour; it’s quite thorough. They just don’t let you inside the dorms (or any other buildings for that matter).</p>
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<p>I was a few doors down from a cutter my frosh year. This person wasn’t a hipster whatsoever, but just had some major issues and was pretty screwed up mentally.</p>
<p>Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?</p>
<p>A: Well, it’s a really obscure number. I mean, you’ve probably never heard of it.</p>
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<p>A. All of them. One to screw it in, the others to discuss how much cooler the bulb was before it changed.</p>
<p>A. Who cares. It’ll just be a rehashing of the way Lou Reed changes light bulbs.</p>
<p>Q: How many Columbians does it take to change a light bulb?</p>
<p>A: Seventy-six. One to change it, fifty to protest the light bulb’s right not to change, and twenty-five to hold a counter-protest.</p>
<p>tour guide here, and yes, unfortunately we don’t go into rooms, apparently for ‘security reasons’</p>
<p>I went for a walk around Morningside Heights after my tour. And since I was hungry, I went with my companion to a restaurant. But after seeing the prices, I realized the delicious aroma I had been smelling wasn’t food–it was money.</p>
<p>Are there any cheap (and I mean so-cheap-it-makes-the-dollar-menu<a href=“which,%20by%20the%20way,%20isn’t%20even%20the%20dollar%20menu%20in%20NYC!”>/i</a>-look-expensive* cheap) places to eat that I just couldn’t find? Or, horror of horrors, will it be required that I budget and eat a limited number of meals a day?</p>
<p>You’re looking to spend less than a dollar for food? Forget Manhattan; you can’t do that anywhere in the United States! Morningside Heights is affordable in the sense that you can go out and get a good meal for under $10, but you won’t find anything for a single dollar! The cost-of-living at Columbia is not as much as most people think, but it’s not non-existent either.</p>
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<p>In NYC Chinatown, you can get 5 dumplings for $1 at several joints. 'bout all I can think of.</p>
<p>I work in Harlem every summer, and I manage to get by on $1 just fine: 2 bags of 25 cent chips, 1 50 cent cupcake package, and a free drink at the park’s water fountain. 
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<p>Let’s ignore the fact that those foods obviously have no nutritive value…</p>