Columbia

Columbia

Given the idea of finding something that represents Columbia, I could only think of how little time I spend at school aside from when I am in class. I have never lived in the dorms so I can’t say if I would have an ideal of Columbia if I had. So in thinking about this I started thinking about the things that I find unique about Columbia.
What has always been told and reinforced to us as students is that the city is our campus given the fact that we don’t have your “typical” kind of college campuses, and the fact that our buildings are spread out within downtown. So in that thought I would say to experience Columbia you have to experience the city and hit the streets but to really experience Columbia you have to experience the large and diverse student community we have here. Its when you experience the community we have here you will see what Columbia represents. The best way I can say to do this is once again to hit the streets around Columbia’s buildings because this is where we are given the fact that it’s not December, January, or February.
Here on the streets around Columbia specifically the 623 Wabash building the 600 Michigan building and 33 E Congress building. These are some of the areas where you will find painters, photographers, fashion designers, audio engineers, musicians, writers etc. etc. etc. It is also here where you will really get a good vibe of what is going on around Columbia hearing all these kids talking about their different projects and lines of work, to what going on around the city involving their work or other extra curricular activities.
When I think of how I could show someone Columbia this is how I would do it, because when I am here I am quite often closed off in a classroom or in the basement of the 33 E Congress building’s recording studios. However when I do make it out, I can run into friends and other students on the streets or outside some of these buildings and learn of what everyone is doing throughout the college and in some ways become involved with the rest of the Colombia community. That’s the best way I could put it is that we are a community of creative minds perusing our interests not a intuition of higher education…(yawn) boring.