Be Aware Closed Things Open
On the first Thursday of the semester, thousands of students, teachers, staff, and guests explored the campus for Columbia Crawl, the ..
Top 5 Narrative Journalism Resources–Analog Edition
You’re not going to be in grad school forever (hopefully!), so it’s good to amass some handy reference resources for when you make tha..
Production!!!
Wow! This has been a particularly busy time for me. Since the start of the semester, I have done nothing but move from one shoot to an..
Opportunities Around Every Corner
The great thing about being a graduate student at Columbia College Chicago is that everywhere you turn, there are opportunities to get..
2nd Story Opening Show: An Evening of Story and Fun
Have you heard of 2nd Story? If you haven’t, you should know about this. It’s a live storytelling series in Chicago that features four..
The Submission Game: Some Dos & Don’ts for Submitting Your Writing to Journals
I thought it might be helpful to put together a list of things I’ve learned as I’ve become more comfortable with submitting my work to..
Bookstores & Bars
How does a grad student have a social life? Easy! Bookstores & bars.
A Great Time to be in Columbia’s Music Composition for the Screen MFA Program
I don’t think there has ever been a better time to be in the Music Composition for the Screen MFA program at Columbia College Chicago…
Working for a Living (And Going to Grad School, Too)
I arrived in Chicago about a month before I enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts MFA program at Columbia. I was nervous..
Zoe Beloff and the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society
I recently had the privilege of attending a lecture with media artist Zoe Beloff as part of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department’s Vi..