Yellow Car Running on the Street Between the Building During Daytime. Photo Credit: Robert Bye
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]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things
yes many and beautiful things
]
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]”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
It is a well-known fact that Columbia University exists as an extension of New York City. Student residence halls tower above the smog-engulfed traffic on Amsterdam Avenue; familiar scents of cooking gyro waft over the campus gates from the halal cart on 116th Street; and many Lions opt to take advantage of discounted tickets to museums, athletic events, and Broadway performances. To attend Columbia, even with its sprawling fields and historical architecture, is to live in the proverbial “City That Never Sleeps.” And, in many ways, this adage holds true.
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.
