<p>sure we have our preps and I-bankers. </p>
<p>how do criticize when you yourself are clearly an elitist and very likely a bigot. </p>
<p>whats happened to the ivy league??? o my</p>
<p>cerberus, apm was apparently joking, but I don't think anyone got it. It took me a while to think about it, but he's probably also joking in ^this post.</p>
<p>Can't we all just get along?</p>
<p>Maybe the third time will be a charm with Columbia. Though doubtful.</p>
<p>"how do criticize when you yourself are clearly an elitist and very likely a bigot."</p>
<p>I wasn't criticizing, I was being honest about my perception of Columbia. </p>
<p>And I don't know where or how you got the perception that I'm an elitest and a bigot...but thanks.</p>
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ok we could continue to argue about this and I know you are more than happy to boost up your number of posts on this site, cuz u just flat out are not an active memeber of the cc.com community at least not for columbia related topics. Do you got to columbia as a student or are you a paid staff member whos only job is to post on this site??
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ConfidentialColl is a student at Columbia (I've met him), one of the better posters around here, and we all respect his opinions.</p>
<p>Also, race has absolutely nothing to do with this thread or scabooter's situation, she's looking for diversity of personalities not skin colors.</p>
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at first i thought power of love
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"Baller" is what Bros say when they think something is badass.
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These both got a grin out of me. Props on the math joke apm516.</p>
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no one in college "really loves" anything. if you did you're probably nieve [sic] or an idiot or both.
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I loved my time at Columbia, which is part of the reason I come on here to advise people about it and tell stories. Nearly everyone I knew at Columbia would say they loved it, or at least really liked it. You, sir, have no idea what you're talking about.</p>
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<p>scabooter, to answer your original question, you will likely feel more at home at Barnard than at GS, were the latter to find you were a fit for their target demographic (i.e. non-traditional academic background). Barnard has plenty of people like yourself and most of them put "Columbia University - Barnard College" on their resume and get recruited just fine wherever they want.</p>
<p>To answer your unspoken question, though, part of the value of college (and the value of "Diversity" in a college class) is being exposed to many types of people who are substantially different than yourself, and learning - forcing yourself - to deal with them and become comfortable with them. My freshman-year roommate was a black guy from the hood who was probably gay - we got along but it took some doing. My best friend freshman year was a guy from Sri Lanka who'd grown up in Qatar. At Columbia you learn about jews and judaism whether you want to or not. And so forth. Don't undervalue similar experiences at Georgetown just because you're most comfortable with the goth indie rocker crowd. If you can't face that and overcome it, and find friends anyway, see the inner value in some of those people (who, let's be honest, are just reacting to their upbringing and the social atmosphere they see at school - just trying to fit in by applying what they've learned), then you're not really learning part of the key to college.</p>
<p>The junior year abroad is a suggestion well taken as well. It's usually a great mental healing time for those who are nearly burned out on classes and academics and the same setting. Most people come back their senior year with a real fire in their belly about finishing up, and have genuinely missed "home" in their time away.</p>