Man looking at a Rothko painting at the San Francisco MoMA. Photo Credit: Kristian Woerner.
Reflecting back on four years of Columbia and the Core, I find myself contemplating not which classes were my favorite, but which classes I will take with me for the rest of my life. Similarly, I recently discussed with a professor if I had taken any classes in my time at Columbia that “changed my life,” which I interpret as “changed the way I experience the world.”
One such class was Art Humanities. Formally known as Masterpieces of Western Art and Architecture, this class taught me some basics of art history and how to talk about art. While the class focuses on a small subset of art, the skills it teaches can be extended to a more diverse range of material. Really, what I took away from the class was how to approach a work of art and how to articulate what I see in it. Continue reading
For this blog, I interviewed Esterah Brown, one of my close friends at Columbia who’s also a graduating senior, like me! Esterah is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and studies Political Science and History. As someone with experience only in neuroscience research, which is largely unpaid, when I first learned that Esterah gets paid for the research she does with two Columbia Political Science professors, I knew I had to interview her for a blog post.
