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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.
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The P3 in University Writing
One of my favorite icebreaker questions at Columbia is “What’d you write your P3 on?” The P3, for those uninitiated, is the Phase 3 essay in University Writing, a Core course required for all Columbia College and Engineering students. The … Continue reading
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Finding the Intersections in All Subjects
The summer before I got to Columbia as a freshman, I decided that I wanted to go to medical school. Looking back, the nine seasons of Grey’s Anatomy I watched that summer played no small part in that decision—Patrick Dempsey’s … Continue reading
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Digital and Physical Archives: An Exploration of Budapest through Research
At times, the internet creates the illusion that the whole world is available at our fingertips, the illusion that anyone can become an expert in anything. Other times, its many shortcomings are far more obvious. Take for example a side … Continue reading
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Using the Words of the Past to Define the Future
At the beginning of my second semester of CC, my professor asked us all to write down a response on an index card to the question “What do you hope to get out of this class?” My response was, “The … Continue reading
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