columbia | Marginalia

A piece published in Rabbit, a nonfiction poetry journal

In two weeks I will officially be starting my last year of graduate school. I..

Dear Cohort,

I’m not sure I ever told you this, but I never thought I could be a writer. Yet here I stand today, almost at the end ..

When entering into Columbia’s graduate program you might have an idea of what you want to do for your Thesis. It may have also changed eve..

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..

Here we are in subzero temperatures, trying to stay active in a good ole fashioned Chicago winter. This can be so hard when that 8-15 minu..

One of the aspects that drew me to Columbia’s Creative Writing master’s program was the opportunity to teach a composition class. A bi..

The pen is…you get it

I’m almost certain my roommates are tired of hearing me come home every night and cry in my bedroom. Joking, j..

My undergraduate university was a four-hour drive away from my parents home. Well I didn’t really drive down my freshmen year. I wasn’t al..

10/10 Aliens agree: the 2019 MAM Cohort is hot.

It’s my first semester at Columbia College Chicago and my first blog post as Graduate ..

If you’re about to enter graduate school for the first time or coming back from a much-needed break, as we move into the school year I hop..