“Marissa, sweetheart, your Dad is here!” My friend’s mom calls down the hallway in that tone that parents have that is intended to pull children away from play so that they can reclaim their sanity, but rarely works. Normally that tone would not pull me away from my best friend and our make believe adventures, but this time it does. The words are what halt me, not the tone. She said my dad was here. I pad down the...

Columbia's core curriculum offers an opportunity to experience a wide range of courses. While my intended major is English, the Core requirements would not only give me the opportunity to explore a wide array of academic interests, but also afford the ability to pair my interest in writing with other subjects for a variety of viable career options. Columbia's location in New York City presents the ability to work and intern while in school in a wide array of industries....

Humans, by nature, adapt to their surroundings. My surroundings have consistently changed throughout my entire life; I've lived in three different states, attended four different schools, and lived in ten different homes. Literature, at first, came into my life as a means of stability and escape. Books consistently afforded a safe haven of a reality I enjoyed more than my own. The years I spent in a small, closed minded town in Florida, after my parents divorced, were the years...

I used the Fiske Guide to colleges and College Prowler to look into colleges that were best for my major. Fiske is great, because it shows the best programs and has every college in...