<p>Tell me one thing, just one, that you absolutely LOVE/LOVED about Columbia University. Try not to repeat!! This should be interesting. Thanks!</p>
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<p>I LOVE the fact that students here are capable of doing searches on their own to find what they want to know.</p>
<p>I actually think this isn’t a thread that’s been done 50 million times. I can’t think of someone forcing me to name the ONE thing I’ve loved most about Columbia. It’s actually something I’ve never thought about before. So, I’ll answer: that it made me way the heck more well rounded than I was coming in.</p>
<p>I’ll jump on this, even if it might have been repeated:</p>
<p>there are many things that I love about Columbia, like:</p>
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<li>I’m no athlete, and not a second class citizen because of it
-No friday classes, means I have time to do work or an extra day to plan my time.</li>
<li>We’re ready to confront each other on our views, and you witness a real market place of ideas, because the school supports and upholds freedom of speech (to the extent of allowing Ahmadinejad to speak on campus)</li>
<li>the doors of opportunity are wide open, allowing students to pursue professional and academic goals to a ridiculous extent. I have a friend working under a nobel prize winning Chemistry professor, another doing research for Edmund Phelps (nobel prize winning Economist) Another friend worked with human rights watch during the year and another works with Morgan Stanley every Friday. All this means I get to be around these driven and accomplished kids who will likely be very successful in the future. I have found that ambitious and entrepreneurial kids self-select into Columbia.</li>
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<p>After 3.5 years, the single thing I like most is:</p>
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<li>Columbia has made me the grow the ■■■ up, it’s taught me how to analyze very difficult decisions and be mature about deep-rooted conflicts. I feel ready to work in a professional environment, and I feel I know what it would take to succeed.</li>
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<p>This is a good one too… but n.b. I’m sure you’ve matured immensely between 18 and 22 but I would bet that you still don’t know exactly what it takes to succeed and how to function in a professional environment. After 3.5 years of your first job, you’ll probably be looking back and realizing how much you grew up in those years and what a dumba-- you were before. And rinse and repeat.</p>