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My five and a half years at Columbia College was a great learning experience. It prepared
me for many life circumstances that I have endured and has given me focus in my personal
endeavors. I enjoyed being on a campus that was within city limits. It gave me a chance
to see the city and experience what it had to offer. My time on campus was also a chance
to get more involved with my own personal relationship with nature. Commuting gave me
time to explore the parks in Chicago and view the lake. When I had time between class, I
would often walk around the city toward the lakefront. This was a relaxing and often rewarding
adventure. When school was becoming a bit much, I would walk to the lake or around Grant
Park and take time to unwind. Now that I have since graduated, I appreciate these times
more. Walking around Millenium or Grant Park gave me breaks between class to analyze and
become more peaceful with what was happening in my life. When you graduate, things change
and your focus shifts toward finding work and paying back student loans. Columbia was
a great school, I wish I had more of a connection with the actual campus itself. My time there
I met great independent thinkers and made friendships that still last to this day. I
personally feel most of Columbia's efforts go into marketing the school life and not
the curriculum's available. I tend to get more from my undergraduate years as a student
exploring my mental capabilities and talent's, than the latter years where it was driven
more on graduation. The courses I took where more in relationship to another person's work
and not developing my own. It was a fair balance between the two, but personally, I would assume
as an art school you would put more initiative and pushing students in developing their independent
talents and voices in their work. It was also more of a marketing and networking situation.
I'all about connecting with people within my field and abroad, but I would much rather
spend time developing my own projects outside of corporate marketing and material benefits.
The experiences were all rewarding within the six year period and I would not regret
my time. I am more of an independent worker and take more pride in my craft due to my
time at Columbia.