Everything seemed fine at first. We made our group chat, and my phone suggested that I update her contact picture to her pre-selected image of Twilight Sparkle. I ignored it, and we…
It’s always “Chef Mike’s Sub Shop,” “Chef Mike’s Grandma Special,” but they don’t know the truth. He always says he got the recipe from his grandma, but he didn’t say where he…
“Whiner, whiner, chicken diner,” Barnard Dining representatives said in response to The Fed’s attempt to get an interview about recent complaints from Barnard students about their dining hall hours, calorie counts, food…
In the face of the sensationalist anti-mask controversy, the Arts & Culture section of the Columbia Daily Spectator has succeeded and named themselves Alt-Spec, a newer, cooler Spec. Attempting to model their…
You Go, Girl: I Pick Through Fruit Salad to Channel My Womanly Hunter-Gatherer Instincts
Is it shameful to prefer pineapple to cantaloupe? I think not. Actually, I find it natural to zero in on the yummiest, juiciest selections for my picking. Every day, I enter John…
Begging professors to let you into their class during shopping week Classes at Columbia fill up fast, turning course shopping week into a bloodbath where no one is spared. Columbia’s Core Curriculum…
Following a confusing lecture on AI development, Jacob Smith (CC ‘24) realized that his attempts to conquer imposter syndrome were failing because he did not have enough skill or talent to even…
“We live in terror that our hair—our bangs, our highlights, our experiments with wispy mustaches, our pubes for christ’s sake—just won’t be up to code” said one Columbia junior, addressing the Head…
I’m a senior in CC, and I was really looking forward to being the TA for General Chemistry this semester. I’ve always wanted to be that TA that everyone crushes on, but…
Earlier this week, Senem Yurdakul, the Editorial Page Editor on Spec’s Editorial Board, responded to Leslie Zukor’s op-ed responding to Matt Keating’s op-ed responding to Ned Latham’s op-ed responding to Gabe Weintraub’s…