summer

Enjoy the view

Returning to school can feel like a drag. But don't forget how lucky you are to be here.

By Editorial Board | Sep 7 06:29 pm ET

Seeing God in the summer

I thought about it, and prayed about it for a while, and I felt overwhelmingly that I was supposed to stay in New York this summer. So, without first securing a place to stay, I shot off an email to my employer announcing that I had decided to accept the position despite the fact that I had no idea how I planned to support myself.

By Briana Wong | Apr 25 08:10 pm ET

Three months of freedom

Even if you do have such a job or travel plans, you will still have plenty of opportunities to do things that would normally conflict with schoolwork. That being said, I’ve come up with some ways to have fun and expand your horizons at the same time this summer.

By Elías Stallard-Olivera | Apr 25 08:07 pm ET

When the real learning happens

In all of these plans, I get the same sense of an underlying, unspoken significance of this time of year (especially as students at a school like Columbia). For one thing, summer is a time specifically for us.

By Isadora Cerullo | Apr 25 08:01 pm ET

Above and beyond: the White House Internship

At the beginning of the internship, a senior White House official told interns that the summer would be what we made of it, whether we were serious about our office work and got to know people or not. And he was right.

By Keianna Dixon | Oct 6 07:30 pm ET

Summer screenings in the city

For all intents and purposes, this would be my first job, and because the title “intern” was so vague, I began to make my own assumptions about what this job might entail.

By Emily Hoffman | Sep 9 07:46 pm ET

Happy camper

Why was I, a college sophomore, spending my summer inhaling pizza at 10:45 in the morning when I have no idea what I want to be when I “grow up”?

By Noemi Schor | Sep 9 07:41 pm ET

For Bollinger, a Summer of Reflection—and Jogging

One might imagine that a person who launched a $4-billion capital campaign, took flack for inviting and lambasting Iran’s president, shepherded a campus expansion plan through the city’s review pro

By Joy Resmovits | Sep 2 09:19 pm ET

A Broader Study Abroad

Yesterday’s editorial highlighted the overly strict policies that deter Columbia students from studying abroad during the academic year.

By Editorial Board | Apr 8 02:09 am ET

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