Date-Ideas
2016-06-27T18:00:03Z
The University Senate plenary met last Friday to discuss the creation of a new Paris-based research facility, a proposal to strengthen the positions of non-tenure track faculty, and the Native American Council's efforts to create a plaque commemorating the Lenni Lenape.
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2015-12-26T01:00:03Z
I was thinking about an old Kanye West tweet the other day. It was the denouement of one of his weirdly aggressive Twitter rants, and really only notable because it was, in fact, a famous George Bernard Shaw quote: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." At Columbia, the Shaw quote might provoke responses from students that run the gamut from, "Why would Columbia students even be exchanging Apple products? They already have all of Mac's products anyway," to, "I eat intellectual exchange for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, unless I'm too hungover to care. Amen, Mr. Shaw. Amen."
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2015-04-20T21:24:40Z
While my previous article dealt with advice on the logistics of the where and the what-to-do for First Dates at Columbia, it left one key area out: what do we talk about.
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2015-04-10T00:32:47Z
With so many budding programmers and start-up entrepreneurs on campus, it's hard to come up with original ideas for apps to get you recruited by Google. Spectrum's helping you out by offering some campus-specific apps that need to be made ASAP.
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2015-04-06T02:29:12Z
Whether you've finally worked up the courage to ask or you're just taking your casual late night friendship to the next level, the "First Date" is the most important event of in any relationship. Pull it off and it's the start of something wonderful. Fail, you end up alone with a plethora of cats. But no pressure, you won't fail, because you're going to read this article (and the subsequent ones) and take the carefully acquired information to heart.
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2014-09-11T11:32:43Z
By age 21, I had watched nearly every single wedding video on YouTube. I had developed a folder on my computer's desktop filled with pictures of potential floral arrangements and labeled it "Chem" to ward off intruders. I had mastered the art of searching for new wedding-themed blog posts online by Googling seemingly arbitrary phrases like "gay tropical picnic."
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2014-08-24T13:34:56Z
Remember Date My School? That free dating website you always rush to minimize whenever your roommate walks in the room? Yeah, that's the one. Well it turns out that what was originally launched as a beta site exclusive to Columbia and NYU students is bigger and better than ever: even the New York Times has covered it. Founded last year by two MBAs at the B-school, Date My School now boasts well over 50,000 users and after expanding by 350 schools just this August, is adding 250 more schools to its roster next week. more Just to reiterate, that's 50,000+ students and alumni at about 1,000 schools now, and they're all waiting to meet you! (Not really, though.) An email from the good folks over at DMS points out some other updates:
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