Title: What Are The Top 3 Reasons Someone Should Attend Columbia University In The City Of New York? | Questions | Noodle
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What are the top 3 reasons someone should attend Columbia University in the City of New York?
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Orly Michaeli , Columbia alumna
Anonymous , Student, Columbia University in the City of New York, Class of 2018
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Content: The campus has been home to some movements/protests that have garnered political attention, such as the 1968 sit in and the Carry That Weight movement. No matter what your political views are when you start as a CU freshman, they will be challenged by intelligent professors and students. It is inspiring to see so many students taking a stand for what they believe in. The people you will meet at this school will be fascinating, and will be a bridge to unexpected and wonderful opportunities throughout your life. I mean this in the broadest sense. You will sit in lectures taught by the professors who wrote your high school and college textbooks. You will meet friends who will allow you to enter their world that is vastly different from your, whether it's by teaching you the basics of their film history or economics major, or inviting you to their home in the South Bronx or Sri Lanka. The Core Curriculum is an excellent tool. First, it will connect you to other people in your grade, and as corny as it may sound, you will find yourself discussing with them what you read in Lit Hum (literature history course all freshman take) or CC (philosophy history course all sophomores take). The content you learn in the Core has been the basis of Western civilization for many years, and you will feel a unique satisfaction when you know exactly what your professors in other classes are talking about when they bring up Virgil or W.E.B. Du Bois.