Marginalia

As I write this, I’m trying to figure out the poems I will read tonight for the Creative Writing Manifest Showcase, thinking about whe..

It’s been real, y’all.

I just completed my fourth semester at Columbia. It could be considered my final semester, since the Fall will just be me working on my th..

Echo magazine designers get the scoop on our paper options for this year’s issue.

If you’re reading this, my cohort and I survived the..

Matthew Shenoda, Interim Chair, Art and Art History / Professor, Creative Writing

To give prospective and current students some insigh..

What is the name for the energy that permeates a campus a week before Spring semester gives way to summer? I’m almost certain I don’t know..

Did you ever feel like your life is falling apart into small pieces, and while you are trying to put them back together the result does no..

The semester is winding down. It has been an eventful one filled with equal parts struggle and enlightenment. And back problems. I’ve deve..

Burn Out: The half redacted/half misspelled moments of life.

It’s a blue sky day here in Chicago. It’s sunny with a high of 80. Everyo..

I’ve been thinking about graduation again. I know, again, but when you’ve come so close it’s hard to not let it consume your thoughts. Alt..