Fast Times @ Campus

This semester is coming in faster than a hurricane. It only started a month ago, and both List, Barnard and Columbia have been jam-packed with fun activities. I’ll try to give a constructive break down of what’s been keeping me busy (and not blogging). Keep in mind I could write essays about each of these things- email me or message me for more information!

LIST COLLEGE STUDENT COUNCIL DINNERS

About once a month, LCSC throws a Shabbat dinner. Imagine a gigantic plate of buffalo chicken wings, sliders, french fries, chilli, and beef&broccoli- all kosher. Now imagine it for $5. Now imagine it with all your friends. Now imagine it with Shabbat, which means paradise (and if you know anything about calculus, then it’s no brainer the limit of paradise as x approaches fun is infinite). These dinners are insane, and February kicked off with too much meat. And we all know how good meat is: http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicMealTime#p/search/2/7Xc5wIpUenQ

Ignore the bacon. In fact, every time you see it, pretend its a fruit-by-the-foot.

CU DANCE MARATHON

Columbia University teamed up with Barnard College to thrown it’s annual Dance Marathon, a marathon dedicated to raising money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. So basically I danced in a room for 18 hours straight raising money for Pediatric AIDS. I also got to meet famous people, so check out the pictures! The event was nice, it made me realize how much time I have in a day (something like 24 hours). Each hour has a different theme of music, with an incredible array of DJ’s, good food and plenty of cold water. I only started feeling delirious like 12 hours into the event. By the time I hit my fourth wind, it was Sunday, 6am in the morning, with 58 minutes to go. I made friends, got my groove on, and personally assisted in the preventable, and curable, financially-crisesed issue of Pediatric AIDS. For more information, check it out: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cudm/index.html

SORORITY RECRUITMENT

So I didn’t actually participate in Sorority recruitment, but the amount of talk I heard about it was off the roofs. Lots of girls do recruitment weekend at CU to learn more about sororities. Most get offered bids, and only some take it. I now have oodles of girlfriends in sororities, and now feel honorarily involved in Greek Life. To clarifiy, I’m not actually Greek. But no one else here is Greek either, because sorority life at CU is dry and not anything like the television show “Greek.” The Sorority board of CU/BC decided several years ago to transform sorority life at the two schools into a non-dramatic, sisterhood. So if you really want to get drunk, join a frat

Kidding. Don’t drink until you’re of the consented age 21 determined by our nation’s diverse 50 state’s senatorial legislations.

HILLEL CHALLAH

Hillel launched a new program called Challah for Hunger. That means three nights a week now, you, or anybody really, can make challah dough, braid challah and bake it. The new program has been really successful, really social, and really, really fulFILLING

LIST COLLEGE FORMAL

Ok, it hasn’t happened yet. But it’s going to happen tomorrow. I know a lot about it, because I’ve got the “in” at Student Council (not to brag). Catered meals, gowns and tuxs, plenty of hydration- tomorrow night is going to be a good night. Expect ice sculptures, rocket jet packs, and a bar mitzvah DJ. Max, my co-blogger, is my date. STAY TUNED FOR PICTURES. Or don’t. Max and I don’t care. Because if you’ve read this much of the blog post, you’re probably not invited yet (That better be incentive to go to List).

DORMITORY SELECTIONS

Recently all List College Freshmen living in the undergraduate dormitory Mathilde Schechter Residence Hall (MSRH) got to pick their dorm rooms for their sophomore year. Which means besides a very select group of lucky people who got to room again with their room mates, everybody who wanted one ended up with a single. Can you believe it? A single flat, with a sink and mirror, bed, closet, cabinet, desk and cable – in college- in Manhattan. In most schools students never get their own rooms until maybe, by chance, senior year. Imagine doing it as a Sophomore, especially in a place like the city! And getting to pick it in a dormitory that’s so familiar to you. And picking to live next to your best friends. It’s a sweet deal, that only could happen at a small program in a big city.

JPAF

Columbia hosted the first, and potentially the last, Jewish Performing Arts Festival! The festival brought over 11 Jewish A Capella choirs from all over the country to the Miller theater. So if you’re an A Capella junkie, last weekend was your weekend. And most choirs were hosted by List College students, so I got to meet lots of cool, Jewish singers from schools like Boston University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Tufts University, Pennsylvania State and more. The lesson of the weekend was that no matter where you are in the country, a capella singers bob all the same. It’s like an unspoken code- you can’t sing STAB (Soprano Tenor Alto Bass- sectional singing- yah, look at me with those musical terms) unless you bob rhythmically.

CONCERTS, MUSIC AND GLORY

While on the subject of music, I might as well put it out there that in New York there are way too many concerts going on. Unfortunately, this is not my expertise. Max Daniel is the one with $3,000 headphones and an undying love for all music. He goes to way more than me. But literally Columbia recently just updated their TIX program, which gives students cheap/free tickets to almost any show in Manhattan. Imagine Opera tickets for less than 10 dollars. Yah, it’s there. Imagine Kid Cudi for free. Yah, it’s there. Or the Lion King for 15. Totally worth at least $50 a pop. But instead of going over the concerts I’ve been to, I’ll just tease you with the eery suspense that I have been to numerous concerts, and that at List College, most people go to them frequently too. Next week, a bunch of friends and I are going to see Girl Talk. Those tickets sold out three months in less than four hours. It’s going to be explosive.

CONCLUSION
As you can see, adventure is everywhere you seek at List College. Whether its being in the elite of the elite (this program), on Columbia Campus, or downtown Rockefeller Center, it’s easy to have a super fun time! Don’t go around sipping your juice minding your business- visit List College and we’ll show you what’s happening. I think this is the only environment on campus where kids work themselves to the bone academically, and keep having fun. I know I go out four times a week! Get excited for next week’s post, it’s going to be big…

Even small people can meet big shots

Big appetite, bigger pizza.

Yah I’m Famous