Anna Arons

Signing the years away

Copy often goes unnoticed, inside and outside the paper, unless we make a mistake.

By Anna Arons | Apr 27 06:48 pm ET

Strong Enough to Say 'Enough'

We’ve all heard these arguments: having two administrations is inefficient; Barnard drains the University’s lifeblood; single-sex education is outdated.

By Anna Arons | Apr 20 07:02 pm ET

Reading the signs

Now, with six weeks until graduation, the signs marking the path have all but disappeared, and like many of my fellow seniors, I have no idea where my next step will fall.

By Anna Arons | Apr 6 06:44 pm ET

Here comes the sun

While others might try to reduce stress from schoolwork, we do the opposite, relishing and magnifying it.

By Anna Arons | Mar 23 08:03 pm ET

Going the distance

When I strike out for campus from Cathedral Gardens, I triple-check my provisions, wear my sensible walking shoes, and run through contingency plans involving cabs, buses, and stealing children’s bicycles in case I’m late.

By Anna Arons | Mar 2 07:14 pm ET

Are we too afraid to ask?

As my stepmom told me when I applied to college, “Someone’s always going to be the stupidest person at Harvard.” And at a University as riddled with inferiority complexes as Columbia, the fear of being the stupidest is even more amplified.

By Anna Arons | Feb 16 08:32 pm ET

The games of life

Now my actual time in college is waning, and I approach the starting line for The (real) Game of Life

By Anna Arons | Feb 2 07:28 pm ET

Community Food and Juice

If the administration really is motivated by an apparent lack of community, then it need only look online to see that a vital and active community does exist.

By Anna Arons | Jan 19 10:44 pm ET

Celebrating the Stoplights

In my first-year seminar at Barnard, I was asked to describe myself in one word. My classmates said things like, “Jewish,” or “student,” or “me.” I said “rural.”

By Anna Arons | Feb 24 10:21 pm ET

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