LITTLE VICTORIES
Guess who’s speaking at graduation?
By Rebekah Mays
This series is all about celebrating the Little Victories here at Columbia. If you didn’t catch the latest post, we left our heroine celebrating the tasty secrets of Lerner. This week, she was excited to discover an intriguing email from DSpar.
First, I logged onto Barnard wi-fi on the first try. #littlevictories
Then, I opened an important-looking email from DSpar.
Now that, my friends, is a BIG victory!
“Little Victories” runs on Wednesdays.
Barnard isn’t Columbia.
mad
wait really?! I had no idea!! PLEASE enlighten me more, I beg of you!!! THE CORE HAS TAUGHT YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
The fact that Ms. Mays has decided to put “P.S. LOL @ Columbia” at the end of her poorly drawn comic shows that Barnard is not part of Columbia. If Barnard were part of Columbia, which it is not, she would essentially be making fun of herself. Columbia College and SEAS are two premier centers of undergraduate education. Barnard is a mediocre college of the liberal arts full of Columbia rejects. Please stop embarrassing yourself and stop attending Columbia commencement if your commencement is so much better.
(the one who complained about “Ms. Mays”). Why are you being so rude? If you can’t take a joke, you should really just turn off your computer and never turn it back on again. Are you really so insecure that you have to go around all the time making sure everyone knows how superior your school is to the one across the street? Would it be so hard for you to just be a nice person and keep your opinion about something that doesn’t matter at all to yourself for once in your life?
I don’t care about this Barnard/Columbia drama, I do care about people like you who go out of your way to insult others just because it makes you feel better about yourself.
Thanks for the feedback, people! @Anon. I’m very glad you found a deep layer of commentary in my “poorly drawn comic!” Just to be clear, as much as I lately have been disassociating myself from Columbia in recent posts, I personally find no problem with Barnard being “independent” of the University while at the same time being a part of it. Yeah, it’s an ambiguous identity for a college. But there are some things that I love about being affiliated with Columbia–whether it’s the people, the clubs, the sports teams, or certain classes I get to take there (here). At the same time, I am really glad I go to Barnard and love the elements that make us a unique college from Columbia/SEAS/what-have-you. You can’t deny that Barnard is a part of Columbia University, even if they are not exactly the same thing. If there’s one thing I learned from my Shakespeare class (at Barnard), it’s that sometimes you have to leave things ambiguous, even if there are two seemingly contradictory ideas at play. That’s my two cents, at least.
I can’t help but think how much better life would be if DSpar actually signed her emails “xoxo” and used the postscript “lol @ columbia”….