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The CCRA blog is authored by Columbia undergraduate researchers, who are invited to reflect on all aspects of the research process and their own undergraduate research experiences, beginning (but not ending) with the Core.
Category Archives: courses
The Dreaded Cold-Email
So you need to cold-email a professor. Perhaps it’s someone you’ve had a large lecture with but never spoken to one-on-one, or someone you’ve been directed to by another professor—or maybe it’s someone you’ve truly never met. I’ve sent a … Continue reading
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Research in Your Own Backyard: Using Archives at Columbia and in NYC
My first experience making use of a historical archive was spring of my sophomore year. I was taking a course called Making of the Modern American Landscape and we were assigned a final paper with little in terms of a … Continue reading
Posted in Archives, courses, New York City
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