Memories tagged “College Walk”

Eggs and Sausage During the middle 70s, the Morningside Heights neighborhood, especially Broadway, was just beginning to change. A College student with meager resources still had a number of choices of fine, inexpensive places to eat and drink. The College...

Columbia College 1977

I Remember I remember blasting David Bowie and Aerosmith to get pumped up before a wrestling meet. I remember the sounds of James Taylor and Jorma Kokonen during those intimate moments at Hartley Hall, and the beat of NYC’s own...

Columbia College 1979

Love Letter to Alma Mater Columbia is indeed a special place. Every time I walk across College Walk, a feeling of family comes across my heart and a sense of opportunity comes to mind. I first set foot on 116th...

School of Law 1990

My Favorite Campus My favorite times to hang out on the Columbia campus were in the summers. From the times when the South Field was slippery with the dew of the humid mornings to the times when the night sky...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1978

My Heart Remembers with a Great Fondness It was in the spring 1959 after the semester had ended and the summer school semester had yet to begin when I had a surge of affection for C.U. I walked on to...

School of General Studies 1960

Shivering at Columbia Arriving at JFK in January of my first year at Columbia, just back from the winter holidays, the flight attendant announced that it was -35 degrees with the wind chill in New York. At first, I hoped...

Columbia College 2003

SILENCE & LIGHT I remember two experiences which happened before, and after my graduation at Columbia. Although both were secular events I remember them as profound and at least for me religious experiences. The first experience was an individual one....

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation 1993