Stephen Dames
Renny Gong
By Stephen Dames I first met Renny Gong, CC ’24, two years ago while attending a potluck dinner for new members of 4x4 Magazine. Sitting...
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Becky Miller
Vanessa Tasé Sueiro
By Becky Miller If you are searching for Vanessa Tasé Suiero, as people in Morningside Heights often are, she can usually be found at...
Madison Hu
Maya Castronovo
By Madison Hu Pupin 428. 4 p.m. Green chalkboards peek out from behind a large projector screen. Popcorn sits precariously in my lap. My...
Kelsey Kitzke
Joey Recker
By Kelsey Kitzke I first met Joey Recker, CC ’23, in the Barnard anthropology class The Politics of Care, where we spent a semester...
Schuyler Daffey
Mazen Alsafi
By Schuyler Daffey Mazen Alsafi, CC ’23, enters Joe’s Coffee with assured strides. It is, undeniably, the walk of a runway model. Alsafi...
Molly Leahy
Naomi Rubin
By Molly Leahy Mr. Dong, a washed up high school teacher, wants desperately to be “in” with his students. When an offer to share his...
Victor Omojola
Sophie Paquette
By Victor Omojola The first time I met Sophie Paquette, CC ’23, she told me a story. She spoke of a girl named Belladonna from a small...
Dominy Gallo
Mae Butler
By Dominy Gallo When I met Mae Butler, CC ’21, then ’22, then ’23, she was embroidering flowers on a denim jacket in the John Jay 11...
Muni Suleiman
Charitie Ropati
By Muni Suleiman Charitie Ropati, SEAS ’23, first visited the Met in her freshman year, seeking threads of representations of their...
Becky Miller
Delaney Wellington
By Becky Miller Picture a 20-year-old Delaney Wellington, BC ’23, sitting at a side-of-the-highway bar in Nashville, waiting for her turn...
Sophie Poole
Gustie Owens
By Sophie Poole ‘Bechdeltest’ is a word Gustie Owens, BC ’22, wants to use in a future crossword puzzle. (The Bechdel test evaluates...
Becky Miller
Fergus Campbell
By Becky Miller The night of the tree lighting—a glamorous Columbia tradition where the whole university gathers on College Walk to watch...
Dariya Subkhanberdina
Micaela Cacho-Negrete
By Dariya Subkhanberdina As a loyal, if not compulsive, Depop shopper for years now, I couldn’t help but feel somewhat giddy while...
Michaela Sawyer
Kassia Karras
By Michaela Sawyer Kassia Karras, BC ’22, used to be known as “Mrs. UnlocktheSwehg.” These days, she sports the username “Purified Smoke”...
Miska Lewis
Rachel Broder
By Miska Lewis I met Rachel Broder last spring, when chance brought us to the same discussion section of our 200-person Anthropology of...
Nicole Kohut
Harris Solomon
By Nicole Kohut Although he denies it, Harris Solomon, CC ’22, has earned his status as a campus character through three separate avenues...
Sam Needleman
Morgan Levine
By Sam Needleman I have been lucky to know, in my four years of half-fledged college life, four full-fledged graduates of Beyoncé’s high...
Cy Gilman
Forrest Eimold
By Cy Gilman Before meeting me at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on a balmy autumn afternoon last month, Forrest Eimold, CC ’22, was...
Annelie Hyatt
Alice Choi
By Annelie Hyatt To set foot in Aerobics Room 4 is to stumble past people retying the strings of their uniforms while shinais (kendo...
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