Ariel Hudes

First Year’s Finished—What’s Next?

The last. The final. The conclusion.

Wow. One year done? How did that happen?

All Our World Is Definitely Not a Stage

I came to college to study theater. Yes—theater. It is a discipline, a subject, a merit-worthy department like any other. But unfortunately, it seems Columbia doesn’t agree.

Oh the Places You’ll Go...

Was it really one year ago that I packed up my sleeping bag, my favorite outfits, my dreams of college, and my Columbia-funded Amtrak ticket to come to campus knowing, for the first time, that I co

The Group Theory of Columbia’s Student Body

Hello out there, you with your 13 class credits and one-club commitment. How’s life? Pretty nice, I’m sure.

The Things You Should Do

No other Ivy League school comes with a tagline—let alone one as loaded as ours: we are Columbia University, in the City of New York.

The Right Way to Write

Sometimes it seems like coming home from college is one big test of how many times you can answer the questions, “How is school?” and, “Do you LOVE New York?” without exploding.