Barnard College

Dining Halls on Campus

Dining Halls on Campus:

John Jay (Columbia campus, pay with swipes)

Ferris Booth (Columbia campus, pay with swipes)

Hewitt (Barnard campus, pay with swipes)

Diana 2nd Floor Dining Hall (only for Barnard students, pay with points)

The Diana dining hall has Crumbs cupcakes, thin crust pizzas made to order, and turkey burgers. The salad bar is way overpriced but overall it's not bad and my favorite dining hall! Other places are pretty standard, with salad bars, pasta bars, soup bars, and never fresh enough fruit. Hewitt dining hall also has great kosher options. Overall, the food is pretty good!

This makes me love Barnard

Barnard health services are amazing! The health center is always open and available and will help you with any imaginable problem. On late nights or odd hours, you can call "clinician-on-call" which directs your call to nurses to answer your questions and tell you what to do in a medical emergency situation. In addition to being very helpful and extremely nice and friendly, Barnard's mandatory health insurance plan is also great. If you ever need to go to the emergency room/hospital, an escort will come knock on your door, direct you to a public safety van outside, which will drive you to the hospital, where an RA on duty will meet you and stay with you the whole time. You will then be escorted back in the van, never having spent more than a second alone. And you'll get a follow up email/phone call making sure you're ok and that you've had a fine experience with everything. And everything is completely confidential and cost-free. Another plus-Barnard prescribes really inexpensive birth control, no blood test, no long appointment, just a quick trip to health services to pick up the packs (they'll give you 6 at a time.)

I know it's New York City, but...

I know it's New York City, but when it comes to nightlife on Barnard/Columbia's campus itself, there's not much of it. If you go downtown there are a million clubs and bars to go to. Most of them even accept a fake id. There are very few dorm parties (basically none at all) which usually end before 1AM. The frat's suck, unless you're in them and like to spend your night drinking cheap beer with a bunch of fat guys watching sports on tv. (A whole frat house of guys will ignore all the girls there if there's a good game on.) There's a few sleazy bars/"clubs" near campus, and unless you know everyone in there, it's not much fun. If you want a school with a great party life where you don't have to trek all over the city, don't come here. If you love NYC and just can't wait to be here and party, then come.