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Time to party/cry forever
As they tend to do, Housing posted lottery numbers a wee bit before the expected date. To discover your housing fate, follow these steps!
- Go to the StarRez Portal
- Log in with your uni
- Click on the Applications link on the upper left
- Quiver with anticipation
- Select the Academic Year 12-13 application
- Feel the sweat glisten on your forehead
- Click on Registration Summary
- Scroll down
- Weep uncontrollably with either misery or bliss
- Summon friends, repeat step 9
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@2546 Cheers, best lottery number in 3 years here…
Upward trend, at this rate I’ll break the 2,000s by the time I have kids
@hari 2828: http://i43.tinypic.com/9rhksy.gif
@seniors in trouble our lottery number is 2734 … what is going to happen to us?
what is the worst possible number?
ps we are a 4-person.
@i know seniors who got awful lottery numbers and are currently living in singles on the 16th floor of EC.
@Anonymous a) someone will suck it up and take the double and you’ll live in a former exclusion suite you’ll pick during regroup.
b) you will break into singles and live in River/Broadway (also big ups for the giant rooms in Harmony)
@Anonymous Goes to 3000. You can also do senior regroup and pick into Woodbridge. Better than River/Broadway imo.
@Anon Ignore ’em. Congrats! Furnald is the bomb.
@cc'14 lololololololol FUCK THIS SHIT.
@Naw, dawg Read it again: It’s “Yo, fuck this shit.”
@Why hath thou forsaken me? First, the Housing Gods gave me 2800 for my senior year. But, my spirits were bright: I was going to be rolling in money after I converted flex into a nifty gift card courtesy of Rite Aid or CVS. After the clerks informed me that Columbia decided to ban buying gift cards on flex, I looked up at the sky, dropped to my knees. With tears rolling down my cheeks and arms extended, I cried, “Yo, fuck this shit.”
@you missed the most important question what about booze
@Person with average number I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEEL THE SAME I GUESS
@Anonymous question:
does the lottery number in suite selection mean your number against all groups, or just groups of the same size as yours?
@Anonymous All groups within your year (or combination thereof)
@'13 *sobs*
@2915 Are there even that many students on campus? FML. At that number, I don’t think I even qualify for any campus housing. I’ll happily live in Central Park, thank you very much.
@A little excited i am a sophmore. I got an 80. Does that mean that…… I’ll be able to pick into a single?
@Anonymous I downvoted you because I hate you but I’ll offer an answer as well. You should be able to get into Furnald with that. Cut off last year was 10/170.
@Anonymous Nope.
@person No chance in hell. Two years ago the last Furnald singles went to people with a lottery number of 12. The last. 12. I know back in high school 80/3000 was a “good percentile,” and maybe that shit would fly at some lesser school like Brown or Harvard, but this is Columbia. If you didn’t want to live like an animal in a filthy cage you should have stepped the fuck up.
@Definition Schadenfraud: Pretending your number is better than it is so you can laugh at people with equally bad numbers
@a little excited thank you for responding. After posting, I realized that it was rude of me to post at the time when people are still upset about their numbers. I’m sorry. I actually didn;t have any friends who were wanted to room with me, the LLC and SIC’s rejected me,so I was pretty depressed when I had to go into housing alone. I just want a single and some peace and quiet. I hope you are right, but I guess there are no guarantees.
@Anonymous Don’t worry about it. We’re downvoting you because we’re jealous, lol. And we are. Give me your number, please?
(Also, don’t worry about having to go into the housing lottery by yourself. Happens to the best of us.)
@Anonymous I got 2957 D:<
@NOOOO fresh with 2827 so getting shafted. Sun I knew thee well
@person You’re not going to get shafted because you won’t get an assignment.
Ironically, losing the lottery hard is one of the best things that can happen – most summer transfer housing is better than you’d ever have a a chance to get anyway.
@The kiddo Even with suite selection I won’t get housing?
@person Ah dude I’m not sure, we’re already in pretty serious housing wizardry here, Columbia housing is what you would get if Franz Kafka had sex with the infield fly rule.
I know that general housing gets to pick after suite and there are still rooms left when that happens, so I think that I gave you false hope. If you’ve got an even number of people you’ll all do sophomore pair up and get doubles. They’ll be shaft but probably decently high in the shaft, I think, or at least not the bottom – it’s the rising sophomores in general selection who fill up the lower circles of hell. You could maybe drop down willingly as a group and choose to go into general selection in the hopes you’ll fall through the end, although you won’t get to live together, and you may just wind up catching the last rathole.
2827 is pretty bad though, there aren’t a lot of good options.
@Anonymous You’ll have to see how many groups of your size are in front of you and do a bit of math. You can always drop to general from group selection (your number stays with you), and it will be like you started in general.
@Columbia sociopath I vote that we have a school-wide day of hunting where we kill all the people with numbers above 100… I mean we would all be better off right??
@Anonymous The 1st Annual Columbia Hunger Games?
@CANT HANDLE THIS am i the only one, but the website isn’t loading. WTFFFFFF
@Anonymous What does 2899 mean?
@Anonymous Maybe if they took the extra couple of days (which they claim they will need) to put more logic into the madness, this system wouldn’t be as bad.
@HOUSINGBOT3000 NO LOGIC ONLY MISERY
@well fuck
@anti-nwbar During my freshman year, I worked for housing for my work study. All I wanted was to hold onto my precious 6th floor Furnald single, which had been my 100 square feet of privacy from the football players who spent most their time seeing who could create the biggest hole in the concrete wall, and the party girls who believed their Furnald floor should be “Party Central 6.”
I would occasionally try and overhear any conversations about the upcoming housing lottery by the administration. They would discuss how to substitute rat meat at John Jay, or whether they could turn off the heat in Carmen at night and then promote more floorcest to keep bodies warm, but nothing about the housing lottery. I became nervous. I heard about upperclassmen who had been paired at random in the McBain shaft with that weird kid. THAT weird kid. The one who stayed up watching horse porn, with his chair blocking the door, leading to the only escape by dropping into the shaft, where that monster from Star Wars trash compactor lived.
Then one day at work, I saw James Joyce, the man responsible for the housing lottery, as well as Ulysses. He wore his Columbia blue button down and a gold chain that had the motto “Club EC” on it. I slowly and cautiously approached him. “Mr. Joyce?” I trembled as he turned to me, the fire already in his eyes. “What do you want puny student,” he responded, each sylaball causing the ground to shake beneath me. “I was curious if you had any say on housing numbers. I mean, I’m a good student. I work hard to keep this office running. I know it’s against protocol, but if you could somehow sway my decision, I would be most grateful.”
As he began to consider my words, the clouds darkened from above. I tried to run but couldn’t. A giant computer screen came down from above, with my info and my place of living. “Well student,” he bellowed, “I can guarantee you a single next year. A large single, with 150ft of privacy, and a bathroom you only share with four other students!” His words were full of lies.
“In fact, this is a brand new dorm! You will have fresh equipment and everything. How do you like the sound of that?” I tried to respond with a smile, but I knew this was too good to be true.
“EXCELLENT! I’ve reserved your room for next year. It is called Harmony Hall.”
I am now a senior, and have never seen my room. I have lived among those in Butler, sleeping, cleaning, and showering when I can. Occasionally a girl would pity me and my story, invite me to her room, and then abuse me by cuddling for 3 hours and then kicking me out before I could receiving any proper sleep.
I have tried to locate Harmony again and again, but like Narnia or the Platform 9 and 3/4, I feel it is only for those true of heart, or a wizard, and I will be punished for my sins for life to come. If anyone ever finds it, please let me know.
@Harmony Hunter So, uh, do you wanna maybe grab a coffee or something?
@umm best harmony hunter post ever
@Anonymous Are you sure he’ll be able to find you?
@Anonymous peter no one cares
@Anonymous SYLABALL
@bwog! favorite this shit
@Oh hai 43 MOTHERFUCKERS
@Anonymous track that shit.
@Anonymous referring to anti nwbar
@35 what
@~1300, Rising Junior <3
Captcha: 1,269
Close, but not quite
@2957 fuck
@Anonymous My heart weeps for you :(
@Yeah we’re FUCKED
@Anonymous I keep refreshing the page hoping number will change
@Anonymous “The server is experiencing increased load at the present time, and no more logins are allowed.
Please try again in a few minutes.”
Noooooooooooooooooooo
@FUCK THIS SHIT Senior w/ a 2671
@My Sympathies Senior with 2695
@you two should like totally date.
@Anonymous freshman year – 2745
sophomore year – 2915
junior year – 2196
i love this system
@Anonymous Fisted!
@Jon Lee Supertaster
@Anonymous it’s my best number yet!
@150 Suk a dik
@Keep downvotin' me I know there’s still a good 95% of you left. Losers.
@119 enjoy your hand
@I'm not here for your entertainmeeeeeent You don’t really wanna meeeesss with me tonight
@moomoo Charlie SUCK A COCK
@Anonymous yea charlie’s such a dick
@BLARGH i’ve made so many inhuman noises of disgust when finding out my number that i don’t even want to talk about anything anymore
@Yo so actually the page is frozen. Seems to be keeping in theme with Columbia’s administration….
@Anonymous yo someone find that program from last year that told you how many groups of a certain size were ahead of you and figure out if it still works? thanks. brb, crying.
@Unfortunately We’ll have to wait until housing releases the pdf with all of the groups, as any tool must be based on that information (which isn’t available yet.)
@Anonymous Or you could statistically model it based on previous years!
@Anonymous UGH page won’t load.
@FUCK FUCK
@2914 It could be worse.
@Anonymous PINGAS!