Marginalia | The Graduate Blog, Columbia College Chicago

CM Burroughs, Graduate Poetry Faculty

To give prospective and current students some insight into the Poetry MFA program, I’ll be talki..

The graduating Photo MFA students are busy preparing for their thesis exhibition, this year hosted at MANA Contemporary, Chicago. Thes..

Everyone comes to Columbia at different stages in their writing career. Whether you’re fresh out of undergrad (like I was), or you’ve take..

Us last semester, thinking things were crazy before things actually got absolutely crazy.
Photo credit: Ridvan Bolgi

I struggled to com..

Most people agree that going through a graduate program can have a life changing impact. I was one of those people but oh man, never would..

If you had to pick out a single theme from my writing on graduate life thus far, I think the thing you’d see repeating most often througho..

Hey Everyone!

This past month or two has been one for the books. I attended the Game Developers Conference, which was an absolutely inc..

Things never go as planned. Somehow, things still pan out how they are supposed to. I don’t think I achieved a single goal that I discusse..

What is there really to do around Columbia College Chicago? Perhaps that’s a strange question given Columbia’s location in downtown Chicag..

The stage all set for critiques

It’s been a busy couple days here at Columbia because we are in the middle of critique week. In the sp..