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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we were doing the college tours, Columbia is the one that struck me as the most dismal. The cigarette smoking was pretty striking. The school seemed really depressing.

i don't want to pile on Northwestern, but that too seemed like an unhappy school. And yes, Lake Michigan. Nice football practice facility. But the place felt cold. [/quote]
Students from New England boarding schools smoke. It’s just how it is. I feel like there’s so much actual important things to notice that this makes no sense to even bring up[/quote]

I'm a former smoker. But I think any 19 year old smoking cigarettes today is not well. And if that's what boarding students from New England at Columbia are about, it's reflective of a completely garbage culture. And that's generally my opinion of Columbia. They are the cigarette people. [/quote]

I agree with this assessment.  What a turnoff.[/quote]

Interesting.  I went to Columbia and am a prof there now.  This assessment seems accurate for when I went there in the mid-late 90s but not for now!  There used to be large clusters of smokers outside every humanities building all the time.  Now there aren't and there are actually only a few designated smoking places on campus and they're far from building entranes.[/quote]

+1 We visited Columbia in the fall and didn’t see anyone smoking. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I saw any smokers on our college tours (CT, MA, PA). If there were any, would’ve been minimal. I hate smoking and would’ve noticed if there were a lot.
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DP. Maybe off topic, but the smoking I noticed wasn't specifically at Columbia, but the smell of weed on almost every block in Manhattan.[/quote]

I live in Manhattan and this is accurate :-). Not much you can do, except not send your kid to college in NYC.[/quote]

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