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Empathy and the study of empathic learning has recently become more prevalent in my life than ..

Of all the things they told me I would learn at Columbia, I was not expecting to perfect my nap-taking skills. I’ve been to college before..

In many institutions of higher education it is customary for faculty members to rotate through taking turns as the department heads. It’s ..

Working on one of my ten-foot drawings in the studio.

Hello again from this (my final) semester at Columbia College Chicago!

We are..

With the advent of the new year, and my dedication to building an exhibition proposal on drag for my Curatorial Practicum (one of the elec..

Our second semester has started. We are resuming where we left off with the same intensity. There are two films that we are expected to sh..

“What would you risk for your art?”

This question followed us out of our small group discussion and into our monthly Cine-Club, where we ..

After the first week of spring semester and I can say with a high degree of certainty that my main activity this semester will be read..

Break has ended and here we are yet again. Back to the routine of graduate student life. Along with a entirely new workload of books, arti..

The first day of school is always a little nerve-wracking. It’s a very basic fear of the unknown mixed with the desire to do well. From th..