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Peer Review:
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1
5.45.80.218:valid:Content Nonsensical, Duplicate Survey, High Vulgarity, High Grammatical Error, Probably Admissions, Content Useless, Malicious Intent/Faked, SPAM, :1

Statistical Analyzer:

I have been reading though the reviews and I feel really bad for those students. If a professor has to make you create then perhaps an art?s career is not the best career choice, and it is for the better. No one is going to hold your hand, and no one at Columbia College has any respect for anyone who needs their hand held. You will have a hard time. The city of Chicago will give you a hard time. City life isn?t for you.

That being said, if you show initiative, the opportunities are endless. I have never gone to a place where it was so easy to get things done! There is virtually no red tape. Anyone can start a club, and get funding for that club. This is how George Tillman got funding for his films. It was a production club. I did my research, and that?s where I got the idea. Someone does need to attend the weekly meetings, that?s sometimes the hardest part because it can?t be the president. It was an improv club. It was so much fun. You want to put on a show, just talk to the department and reserve a theater. EASY. You can reserve any room in the school practically. Just ask. You want to show your films, just check a theater out. If your show/club is approved by the theater department, you can use any of the props and costumes they have to offer. The show will look SWEET. To top it off, one of the most respected theatrical designers in the country is in residence there. I constructed her designs in the costume shop, I was an aid. The hardest aspect of putting on a show is resources, and it?s all there. It?s abundant. You will never have this opportunity again. The hardest thing to putting on a production is finding rehearsal spaces, theaters, sets, and costumes. It?s all there at Columbia, just begging to be utilized. Literally begging. It?s just there. Also, if you are a film student, you will never have the opportunity to meet so many other talented people willing to work with you. I worked on so many films. A theater director will never find so many talented and dedicated performers wanting to be in their plays. I did both. I made so many friends, and my ?job? during the summer was being an extra over and over again for Cupid and Early Edition. The catering on those sets is amazing! You tell the PA?s you are a film student, and you get to help them. I learned so much about lighting sets. I found out about this opportunity from a student film, at Columbia. I made so many friends, and 10 years later, these people are still my friends. Some have gone on to be professionals, some others moved in different directions. It doesn?t matter. They are still great friends. You need support. They really wish you well, and that?s so rare in this field. Almost non-existent. I majored in Theater and Film. Also, the fact that they don?t have great teachers is a complete lie. Sheldon Patinkin was the head of the theater department, and he not only guided me, he took the time to personally watch every performance put on by EVERY theater student. He was like my Dad, and he was just as blunt too. It is the only college in the country with teachers from Second City. Martin de Maat was my advisor, and there was never a better advisor a student could possibly have. He brought caring to a new level. He cared so much, I am still an improviser. He is no longer with us, but the other teachers are just as caring. Brian Posen goes above and beyond, and he puts students to work with every professional show he puts on. And 10 years later, I can walk into any arts related place, and know someone in Chicago. People dream about that, and they go around making up that they know people just to get that. It?s yours, with your degree. That is golden. To most, Chicago is a cold harsh city. To me, it is warm and full of good friends.

If you go to Columbia, take some initiative. That means you need to earn respect, through your work. You have NO IDEA of what a gift that is. It is a skill. So many misguided souls sell out, and I know how to show myself off through my work. I have never sold out. And if you didn?t get that, at least you can get a great GPA. Graduate schools like candidates with great GPA?s someone who has a name shows up in a Google search, and at Columbia you can get both. I am going to a great graduate school, and I heard stories about others that could not get into a graduate school because they did not stand nor did they have the grades. Other colleges kill your GPA with outdated knowledge and they do not teach you skills to make yourself stand out. I appreciate that I was so encouraged to work outside the classroom. It is like we are all were expected to be like star athletes, whether we were or not. I liked that the school was disorganized, because it gave ME the chance to organize something. It forced me to behave like a graduate student.

Columbia is like a nice, safe, version of the real world. I mean, in order to work on a film, you need to get over the fact it?s just a set in a back lot in a bad part of the city. (Windy City Studios, it is in Cicero). It?s not real. The set is fake. A painting is just canvas and pigment, you make it more. If you don?t, it just stays pigment and canvass. It?s really not all that. It never was. You will need to get over it. The sooner the better. The Bolex is still the best camera, and until 10 years ago it was considered professional to shoot on one. My last trip to Chicago I even went through and took a picture of my classrooms, just to prove what the other reviews say is true. No one believes me. That set in the back lot is where dreams are made, just like at Columbia. You can learn to make dreams, or find a place that lives up to your dreams. It?s not the same place. But it is getting a lot closer. They really cleaned up the city for the Olympics. I was like, ?Is this really Chicago?? It looked more like Dallas.