You may move into your assigned building from 9AM-5PM on the first day of your contract. (See contract grid schedule on your offer of assignment). To receive your keys and security Access passes, report to the Office of Housing Services which is located on the first floor of Bard Hall. Bring a photo I.D. and a copy of your signed contract with you. You may use the 60 Haven Avenue Tower 1 entrance to access Bard Hall. You may request to move in 1 or 2 days prior to the official move in date. Early arrival requests to Bard Hall should be e-mailed to Amy Garcia at ag12@columbia.edu. Request for the Georgian Residence should be e-mailed to Noemi Bueno at nb141@columbia.edu. Each request will be reviewed on a case by case basis and granted based on room availability and readiness. Early arrival billing begins on the date you receive your room keys. The early arrival charge is calculated by multiplying your daily room rate times the number of additional days. If you will be delayed or will not be arriving within 48 hours of move in, it is asked that you notify the Office of Housing Services so that your room will be held.

If notification is not received and the 48 hour period has elapsed, your contract will be cancelled and your room will be reassigned. Information about the campus and the community, maps and directions parking, food venues, ect. Can be found at www.cumc.edu/about/campus/.html. The streets around the Medical Center are heavily used and street parking is very limited. Double parking is permitted on scheduled move-in days while you are unloading your belongings. Someone should stay with your vehicle at all times. Your mailbox # B__ or G__ B=Bard G=Georgian New York, NY, 10032 You are required to use the above listed mailing address to have mail distributed to your residential mailbox. Mail received with either an incomplete or incorrect mailing address will not be processed and will be returned to sender. All mail for Bard Hall and Georgian Residents is delivered to the Bard Hall mailroom. It is then sorted and distributed to the resident mailboxes in each building.

Letters will be placed in your assigned mailbox. Oversized materials such as magazines, large letters and packages will be received and held in the mailroom for you to pick up. The mailroom is open M-F 10 AM-6PM. Photo I.D is required. Do not ship any boxes until you have arrived at Bard or Georgian. We cannot be held responsible for items or appliances. All accommodations are furnished. proper size ac unit for houseYou should bring your own bed linens, pillows, blankets, towel, bedspreads, rugs, task lighting. outdoor ac unit reviewsYou should bring flatware, dishes, pots & pans, cooking utensils and small appliances such as toasters or microwave in Georgian only. 3 ton package unitCooking is not permitted in Bard Hall rooms. Bard residents may bring a mini-refrigerator (max .size 5.5 cu ft).

Bard Hall and the Georgian Residence are not centrally air conditioned. You may bring your own air conditioner. It should meet the following University specification- the unit should not exceed 5,000 BTU’s, be ENERGY STAR® certified, and must be no larger than 15 inches high and 27 inches wide. Your unit must be installed by university maintenance staff. At check-in you can make this request by completing an Air Conditioner Work order form. There is a $25.00 installation fee. Campus and long distance phone service/Cable Service Service is provided by Time Warner Cable (212) 222-5388 Also by Verizon (212) 304-2491 All residential units are wired which means that you are able to connect a properly configured computer and network adapter card to the campus computer network. Dorm Housing is manned with 24 hour Door Attendant personnel. You must present your Medical Center I.D. to enter your residence and all Medical Center buildings. Delivery men are not permitted in the buildings.

You are expected to come down to the security desk to accept a delivery. You are welcome to have visitors in Bard Hall and the Georgian Residence. Your visitors should report to the security desk pr Door Attendants in your building. You will be called by security or Door Attendant staff to confirm the arrival of your visitor and that you are home. Your visitor will not be given access to the building if you are not in. Each visitor will be asked to leave a photo I.D. and will be issued a Visitor Pass. It is not permissible to have a permanent visitor / guest in your room. Under no circumstances will Housing Office Personnel issue your visitor into your room when you are away. When you invite a visitor to campus, you assume responsibility for his/her behavior. In addition, your visitor is responsible for following all University rules and regulations as would any other member of the living community. Visitor privileges may be revoked as a result of inappropriate behavior by you or your visitor.

Policy violations on the part of your visitor will be referred to the Housing Administration. Violation which may require immediate action and will be referred to the Director for University Housing and the Dean of students of the host’s school. This happens with me many times. And people misinterpret it. But then I thought for a while and now think that I should have some unambiguous sentence to convey my message. Could you decrease the AC please? Fifteen minutes later - Hey, it is chilling. Didn't you lower down the AC? It was 22 degrees and I made it 18! Ah, I mean decrease - make it less effective/intensive. The AC was too much. Does increasing AC (Air Conditioning) means moving the degrees from 18 to 22 or 22 to 18? The former is increase in AC as it's increasing in temperature and the latter one is correct in a way that it increased the intensity (like, increase the volume, it's not audible). The problem is of course that we are more used to heating systems than to cooling systems (heating is much easier, and humans have been doing it for tens of thousands of years).

And with every heating system, turning up the system means increasing the resulting temperature. Many A/C systems have a temperature indication, and many even have buttons to increase or decrease the temperature. So effectively, when you mean "please decrease the effectiveness of the A/C", you are asking someone to press the up-arrow key on the A/C, increasing the temperature. This is an contradictory thing for many people. When I turn up the heating, I increase the temperature. Now you want me to turn up the A/C, then I will likewise increase the temperature. Strictly speaking, your interpretation makes sense (and as a stickler for literal interpretation, I have used it myself!). For most people, however, "turning up" any appliance that controls temperature means adjusting it in such a way that the temperature will increase. There are examples where people mean the opposite of what they really say. Maybe the most common example is the confusing fact that electrical current runs in the opposite direction of the movement of the electrons.

With a heating system, an oven, a fan, water flow, etc. to turn up or increase or crank up the setting is unambiguous -- you want more of whatever the thing is doing, which means raising the temperature or flow. To turn down or decrease the setting reduces activity (leading to a lower temperature, etc.). With a cooling system, it is potentially ambiguous, as the usual meaning is still to increase the activity, but the result is to lower the temperature. Thus the convention (at least in the US) is "turn up the A/C" means to make it colder (lower temperature) by increasing the work the A/C unit is doing. In other countries and cultures, it could certainly instead mean "raise the temperature set point" (decrease the amount of cooling). If you're not sure how your request or statement is going to be taken by others, make sure it's unambiguous by stating the [undesirable] current condition and/or the desired results: "I'm cold, please turn down the A/C" or "Please turn down the A/C to raise the temperature" or even "Please turn up the temperature setting on the A/C".