Breaking the ice by passing around a human ribcage easily beats any name game. But everyone knows that things only get more interesting when people really get to know each other and know what someone’s like on the inside. Taking this literally landed me in the dissection room at Georgetown University, shivering with a few other high school kids and a bare-handed medical student. No gloves, just curiosity and a cadaver. As we entered, the medical student explained that...

Moving from rural Ohio to metropolitan Shanghai was shocking. The upbeat bustle and the abundance of places to go were refreshing, but I missed that small-town sense of community and relaxation. My vibrant backyard had been replaced by a few sickly trees lining the road, sticking out of the cement. Columbia offers the perfect fusion that I seek, unmistakably urban without neglecting the comfort of a beautiful campus. A charming campus, New York’s abundant cultural resources, the core curriculum...

Please tell us what you found meaningful about one of the above mentioned books, publications or cultural events. Sometimes I imagine what being blind is like. Maybe it’s being able to type with my eyes closed. Or perhaps it’s trying to find the bathroom at night in the dark. In any situation, I imagine that being blind means knowing where to go without my sense of sight. This holds true in Cormac McCarthy’s “Outer Dark,” but McCarthy...

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