Columbia College - Chicago

Date: Oct 27 2012
Major: Perfomance Arts (This Major's Salary over time)
Columbia is all about how hard you are willing to work and what you put in to it. To enjoy the school and get your moneys worth you must always be looking at the bulletin boards around the campus for events, performances, auditions ect. OTHERWISE you're going to be bored out of your mind. Yeah youre living in downtown chicago but if you arent 21 there is absolutely nothing to do. I recommend living at the university center if you want to make friends. I lived at the Dwight and made no friends at all and then i moved to the UC and made so many friends met my boyfriend and best friend there. Reason being, the university center has roosevelt, depaul and robert morris students there as well. It's a nice break to be away from columbia kids all day. I just feel like they all try so hard and I got so so so so tired of the hipsters and the countless number of people in my classes that had absolutely no talent. it started to make me feel like shit about myself that there were all these students who had no talent and were dumb as hell. Yes anyone can get in to columbia. ANYONE. The professors at columbia are amazing and all successful in the field they are teaching and nice. I have never really had an awful teacher. The gen ed classes are a joke. I got A's in all my gen eds without even studying. They relate all the gen ed classes back to your major and at the end of the semester you do a big project on it. For instance, I am a dance major so I danced about the biology of aids. I got an A for all my gen ed classes because I just did a dance that related to the subject. Super easy. All in all my experience at columbia was a little less than mediocre. It did not challenge me at all, a couple classes were fascinating (psychology of women with mya TAKE IT) there werent enough performance opportunities, fellow students are not talented only a select few (some you will be so embarrassed that they go to the same school as you) everyone's trying to be hipster or already is (most of them trying)

Columbia isnt going to look amazing on a resume you really have to network and work hard to get your moneys worth and not end up working at starbucks like all the other graduates from columbia.