The Ivy Exile (@ivyexile): "Columbia University was deeply disappointing to me when I started working there in 2011, but at least I was already jaded from four years at Brown and several years chronicling public intellectuals for Bill Moyers. I can’t imagine how devastatingly disappointing it must have bee…"

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Columbia University was deeply disappointing to me when I started working there in 2011, but at least I was already jaded from four years at Brown and several years chronicling public intellectuals for Bill Moyers. I can’t imagine how devastatingly disappointing it must have been for someone who took Columbia’s promotional materials (some of which I wrote) at face value.

I don’t remember a single person from my orientation group, but I can tell you that the orientation leader—a huffy junior from Connecticut—was not very pleased with me throughout my first week on campus. I remember locking eyes with her right after she’d read off instructions for our first “icebreaker” activity: we were supposed to go around in the circle and state our name, where we were from, our intended major, and our pronouns. Pronouns?

Liza Libes

May 4

2:45 PM

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