VC Moving Back to NYC

Ok so my travel plans were supposed to be as follows:

4 July fly Cairo - Athens (arrive 8AM), sprint to Parthenon, meet Glam (who is also in Athens, by coincidence), sleep

5 July take lunch and fly Athens - NYC; stay probably with Juicy (maybe some ice cream with my Brooklyn dwelling and future PhD friends?)

6 July fly NYC - OC

{Stay in Orange County with moo until 31 July}

31 July fly OC - NYC

BUT! This has all just changed.

I just got my housing assignment from Columbia and, despite listing it as my last (third) choice (I even said on the application that I think it's too expensive, especially on a high floor) I have been placed in the newest and most luxurious dorm in a private studio.

Check out the dorm website (yes, it has it's own website!) here, it's called Lenfest.

I shouldn't say my room number online, but let's just say that it's QUITE easy to remember, which reminds me of when I lived in Columbia's OTHER new dorm as an undergrad ("Broadway"), and my room number my last year was 1234 lol.

I have to say that the colour video intercom makes me feel VERY La Femme Nikita!...now if only I were to turn mine on one day and see Michael (Roy Dupuis) then the dorm would be worth the price!

The other news it that my move-in dates are 12-14 July, which obviously gives me a great chance to have a month in NYC already moved-in before classes start on 15 August, but also means that my mom and I will not get to cuddle barely at all, I won't get to see my nieces, raise a new cat... :( Maybe I will go to NYC, move-in, and then go back to NYC until the second week of August...

It's kind of funny that people in the online law school forums joke about Columbia Law School's ridiculous luxury dorm with a bamboo garden, and now I'm living there.

What can a chunk do to just live humbly!?

Here is the floorplan (EDIT: I can't figure out how to attach the photo-clipped image from the pdf)...yes it's a queensize bed. I'll have a microwave. I just...can't believe how much my standard of living will go up between Cairo and NYC (and for only one bigillion dollars extra per month!).

XO

VC