Marginalia | The Graduate Blog, Columbia College Chicago

My Name is Jesus Larios, but I have always gone by Jesse. I am a first-year Cinema and Television Producing MFA student at Columbia Colleg..

Over winter break, I spent a lot of time refining my processes to make sure I can get my work done as quickly and efficiently as possible…

I tend to talk with my hands a lot, so I imagine this is what my students see when I lecture on Zoom.

For me, one of the best things a..

I have a thesis to write and there seems to be about 8 million things I can do before even sitting down to think on whatever it is that I’..

As we start a new semester and have new classes it is always exciting and nerve-racking to jump in head-first with new professors and in m..

Abandoned Pool in Lebanon

I’ve been away for a while now. It’s been more than a month, but I’m back. I went to Lebanon: my native coun..

Eddie Izzard has set herself an “impossible” task of completing 32 marathons in 31 days for charity.

Why do video games have “nightmar..

As a distraction from working on my final draft of my thesis paper, I look out the window at the snow-covered ground. The sky is still..

Given the Grammys are a little more than a month away, I thought it would be fitting to talk about the music that has continued to get me ..

In my last two blog posts, I talked about projects in the classroom as part of the MFA Composition for the Screen program, but there a..