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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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A Research Assistant’s Summer
A few weeks ago, I wrapped up my summer research internship at Columbia Business School (CBS). Their internship program provides students a paid opportunity to work on a summer project with CBS faculty across multiple quantitative social science disciplines: finance, … Continue reading
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The Age-Old Question of Crafting A Research Question
So, it’s the first day of the semester, and your professor is going over the course syllabus with your class. You flip to the assignments section and see, ‘30 PAGE RESEARCH PAPER DUE’ on the last day of the course. … Continue reading
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An Opera Through Time
This past summer for Music Hum, our class was assigned to watch Mozart’s Don Giovanni. It is one of Mozart’s most seminal pieces and widely considered among the greatest operas ever composed. Watching this particular performance in 2021 was an … Continue reading
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Literature as Local: Experiencing the Core through New York City
“] ]you will remember ]for we in our youth did these things yes many and beautiful things ] ] ]” ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho It is a well-known fact that Columbia University exists as an extension … Continue reading
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Where Philosophy Ends and Individual Inquiry Begins
One of my favorite shows of all time is The Good Place. If you haven’t watched it yet… What are you waiting for? If you already have, you’ll know how central the exploration of different philosophies is to the show. … Continue reading
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My Senior Year in Lit Hum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Timeline
I am currently enrolled in a possibly-unprecedented combination of classes: the English Major Senior Essay, which is the department’s name for a senior thesis, and the second semester of Literature Humanities, a class typically taken by first-years. “How?” would be … Continue reading
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Group Research Meet and Greet
When I found out seniors wouldn’t be allowed back on campus this past semester, I was disappointed for a lot of reasons. Apple picking, on my bucket list since I was little, would have to wait for a post-graduate fall; … Continue reading
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Winter Break and All Breaks
This year winter break has been a bit shorter than usual. Finals ended late in December and we returned early in January. While this schedule change has been due to the unusual circumstances of this academic year, having less time … Continue reading
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Letting Go of Senior Research
Registration always seems to sneak up on me, even this semester’s when the date was pushed back. As I juggled Core requirements and classes I’ve been eyeing since sophomore year, I kept circling back to one course in particular, Senior … Continue reading
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The Dreaded Global Core Paper
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen a STEM-major post in the Columbia Facebook group, asking for a Global Core that required only a short paper or no paper at all, I’d probably have enough money to … Continue reading
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