Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i grew up across the street from columbia, my dad got his PhD there, and taught there for 25 years. i went to the college, business and engineering schools. the columbia campus is the nicest in manhattan, and is particularly pretty in the spring. for those visiting new york, take the 1/9 up to 116th & broadway and check it out. i hope at least one of my kids goes to old columbia. it's brand of ivy league is less white shoe than that blend of new york brilliant and edgy. i think the school has a quirky edge to it, reflected in literature and film. nabokov's clare quilty is a columbia graduate, marathon man's hoffman a neurotic columbia graduate student, spiderman's (movie) peter parker is a young columbia student wrestling about power and responsibility, and all the ghostbusters were on the columbia faculty, prior to their entreprenurial venture. of course, columbia has one or two notable alumni, including the recently-minted richest man in world as of Feb 2008. most of the real-life students i'd met at columbia were very laid back. of the 5 ivies that are not harvard, princeton or yale, i'd advance the proposition that columbians lament that fact the least. our 25th reunion is in june. but the most currently visible alumnus of the class of 83 is too busy campaigning to swing by. bummer. mark, love to see some of your images. -rei On Apr22 22:52, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > I was walking around the Columbia Quad yesterday filled with kids not one > of > them 7! > Most seemed 22.2! > Your kid must be amazingly smart. > I got lots of shots. > > To get into Columbia I think you need more than perfect SAT scores and an > A+ > average plus genius IQ. > You need to have invented a new way to build houses out of used Styrofoam > and a solar powered blowtorch in developing world countries and built quite > a few yourself. > > To me if you're that smart you should be starting your own college not be > in > one. But they all seem nice enough. > Frisbee is still big. > I got more shots of the Rodin "The Thinker" or Poet. > This time I walked on the lawn. No Maynard G. Krebs. > > Unless you are talking about Columbia South America? > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey