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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: STEM
What 300 Grants Taught Me
When people hear that I spent my summer doing research through the Laidlaw Scholars Program, they usually ask the same question: “So…what was your project about?” The short answer is bioethics. The longer answer is that I spent the summer … Continue reading
Posted in Fellowships, Funding, STEM, STEM research
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On Doing it Over Again
Nearing the end of my college experience, it is easy to identify the things that I have enjoyed most while here at Columbia. Harder, though, is articulating the different paths I would have taken, topics I would have explored, and … Continue reading
Posted in Senior Spring, STEM
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The Science Core and the Humanities
When I arrived at Columbia, the Science Core was the course requirement that I most dreaded. As a prospective English major who had loathed physics in high school, the prospect of squandering three class slots on the sciences felt annoying … Continue reading