Last night I went to a poetry reading and dinner with my beginning poetry workshop. The class is comprised of mostly first-years, and at dinner we ended up talking a lot about what it's like to be a first-year at Columbia. It reminded me of my own issues with adapting to the environment here and made me want to write about what seem to some pretty universal problems with a first semester at this school.
As the University never tires of telling us, every incoming class at Columbia is a model of diversity. But despite the various races, nationalities, interests, and (to some extent) socioeconomic backgrounds represented here, there does seem to be one thing that the vast majority of CU students have in common—a "Type A" personality.
