Columbia undergraduates come from every background and corner of the world, and bring their multifaceted passions, interests and talents to our vibrant campus community.
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Favorite Campus Meal: Buffalo chicken quesadilla special from JJ's Place
Favorite Immersion Experience: Explore NYC (especially the Statue of Liberty Cruise)
Favorite NYC Park: Bryant Park
Research: Columbia Department of Economics, Columbia Business School
Favorite NYC Cheap Eat: Tonii's Fresh Rice Noodle in Chinatown!
Internships: Global Strategy Intern (Vistar Media), Community & Government Relations Intern (American Red Cross), Marketing Intern (NaTakallam)
Favorite NYC Neighborhood: Morningside Heights!
Find me on campus: New Student Orientation Program, New York Small Claims Advisory Service, Columbia Youth Adventures
Research experiences: Quantitative Proteomics and Metabolomics Center, Vidal Melo Lab
Favorite NYC Movie: When Harry Met Sally
Favorite Residence Hall: Furnald
Internships: Breakthrough New York Teaching Fellow, DLA Piper Tax Law Intern, Brennan Center for Justice Democracy Intern
Favorite NYC Park: Central Park
Find me on campus: Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs, Sigma Delta Tau, Society of Women Engineers, Club Water Polo, Rural Recruitment Committee
Favorite NYC Summer Activity: Picnics in Central Park
Favorite campus tradition: Tree Lighting
Favorite campus celebrity: Roaree, but specifically from @columbiaadmissions on Instagram
Find me on campus: Columbia Spectator, Columbia Justice in Education Initiative
Favorite NYC TV show: Gossip Girl
Favorite Core Class: Literature Humanities
Favorite Columbia tradition: Chinese Students Club's Night Market
Find me on campus: CU Taekwondo, Venezualan Student Association, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, UnTapped, Biomedical Engineering Society
Find me on campus: WKCR, Housing Equity Project, Columbia Road Runners
Find me on campus: Systems Biology Initiative, Somali Students Association, Muslim Afro Niyyah Students Association
Favorite NYC neighborhood: Greenwich Village
Internships and Professional Experiences: Research and Development Engineering Intern for Tampax, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship, Columbia University Visitors Center Student Representative