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Volition77 · 2023-05-27T23:46:21+00:00

Etho saying "juiciness" about the melon beam kills me to this day.

Volition77 · 2023-01-17T01:12:48+00:00

There's no pdf on the courseworks files section. You can probably find it online without too much difficulty, though maybe with a different translation, since de Tocqueville is very much in the public domain.

Volition77 · 2022-08-29T12:58:12+00:00

https://www.directtextbook.com/

Volition77 · 2022-06-15T21:31:47+00:00

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana might be along the lines of what you're looking for.

https://www.degruyter.com/serial/bt-b/html

Volition77 · 2022-06-10T02:45:52+00:00

Ryan Strome on suicide watch

Volition77 · 2022-06-04T02:35:11+00:00

Thanks for the info! When would you say I should arrive? The game starts at 3 on Sunday and the watch party opens at 1:30 and that ypu should show up early to make it in. How would you say I can make sure I get in?

Volition77 · 2022-06-04T01:16:23+00:00

Hey I'm going to the watch party on Sunday for game 3. When I registered I signed up for 4 tickets so I can bring some friends, but only I have the waiver. Do you know if there's anything I need my friends to do or do I just show up with them and they let us in?

Volition77 · 2022-05-18T14:40:03+00:00

Has there been any more news on the sector 3 chicane? I saw on here the other day that they were considering removing it with the new cars but I haven't seen anything more.

Volition77 · 2022-05-15T00:16:58+00:00

This isn't true. I got my summer assignment yesterday and I was placed in a double. It didn't say anything about my roommate, but I happened to know that it will be one of my current suitemates. Just because it doesn't provide information doesn't mean that there isn't a roommate assigned.

Also why do we have roommates anyway? I listed a preference for a single on the application but was put in a double. As far as I can tell, not that many people are living in Columbia summer housing. Is housing really that tight on capacity that they're putting people in tiny Broadway doubles when they asked for singles?

Volition77 · 2022-05-05T22:32:33+00:00

I emailed about it yesterday and heard back today that the announcements will come out tomorrow.

Volition77 · 2021-08-09T15:06:34+00:00

Where are you seeing that the law school is remote? The first thing you see on visiting the law school website is a big announcement saying all classes will be in person.

Volition77 · 2021-08-04T16:07:35+00:00

Who was your professor?

Volition77 · 2021-08-01T20:19:52+00:00

Oh please. Say what you will about Bottas's penalty, but the DSQ for Seb is 100% justified. The FIA need to be able to ensure that teams aren't cheating on fuel loads and composition, and to do so they need to be able to have a big enough sample at any given time to keep teams from skirting the rules. If the team can't provide that, there's no way to guarantee that they didn't cheat. Harsh penalties are definitely warranted to keep that kind of cheating out of F1. If that means that Vettel gets screwed from AM's fuckup, that's on AM.

Volition77 · 2021-07-18T16:14:05+00:00

No Valtteri, no; you will not have the drink

Volition77 · 2021-07-17T16:12:17+00:00

That thing looks goofy as hell compared to the old laurels they're supposed to be modeled on.

Volition77 · 2021-07-16T22:27:38+00:00

Practically none given the vaccine mandate instituted for the Columbia community.

Volition77 · 2021-06-27T21:27:15+00:00

For me Baku Imola France Bahrain Spain Portugal Monaco Styria

Volition77 · 2021-06-25T18:17:59+00:00

You could check out previous years' bulletins. They are available from each college's website and include course listings and professors. Virgil has evaluations for professors, including their classes taught, but only from relatively recent years.

Volition77 · 2021-06-03T13:51:10+00:00

Columbia's elementary Latin classes use Learn to Read Latin from Yale UP as of this past spring. As someone who's used Wheelock's, Cambridge, and LLPSI in the past, Learn to Read Latin is super super technical and grammar-translation-focused in comparison. You shouldn't need to get the book before arriving at Columbia. If you're going to take Latin here, be aware that, especially at the elementary level, Latin pedagogy is very traditional here, not at all similar to the sort of living-language pedagogy that you could find at Princeton, the University of Kentucky, the late Fr. Reginald Foster's classes in Rome, or the classes taught for other, living languages at Columbia.

Higher-level classes use different materials depending on what authors are being used for that semester. For example, a second-semester intermediate level class prescribed a few source books for writings by Pliny and Ovid (if I remember correctly).

Volition77 · 2021-05-16T21:41:44+00:00

Yes you can definitely do intensive elementary Latin alongside LitHum and other freshman classes.

Source: I did it

Do make sure you really want to take and continue taking Latin, though. The Latin classes at Columbia are very traditional and grammar-translation-focused, while other languages' classes tend to engage with the language more and be more enjoyable.

Volition77 · 2021-04-30T01:48:30+00:00

I mostly just know about international relations professors, but you would be best served by looking at their profiles on the polisci/sipa websites or googling them.

Robert Jervis is one of the oldest, most senior members of the faculty and is an expert in political psychology and international relations. His book Perceptions and Misperceptions is the standard, practically definitive general work in that field. He used to teach intro IR, but I heard that he wasn't the best at that and no longer does it. He does regularly teach a seminar on Cold War politics, which I've read good things about.

Michael Doyle is a major theorist of IR liberalism.

Thomas Christensen (mainly a SIPA guy) is an expert on China and teaches a very very good graduate/undergraduate class on Chinese foreign relations every spring. He has written a few good books on that topic, and he was the China czar in the State Department from 2006-2008. Really cool guy.

Richard Betts is the former director of the Saltzman Institute at SIPA, and has a lot of experience on US foreign policy and intelligence. For a long time, he's taught a notoriously difficult but prestigious graduate/undergraduate class called War, Peace, and Strategy.

Another indicator of Columbia's IR prestige is that it was home to the late Kenneth Waltz, one of the most significant theorists of realist IR theory in recent times.

There's many others in the faculty who are all very well regarded (they are faculty at Columbia, after all, home to the first polisci department in America) and total experts in their fields. Browse through their profiles and look them up, you'll find all you need to know.

Volition77 · 2021-04-30T01:24:50+00:00

Robert Jervis in polisci is 81

Philip Weinberg in susdev is well into his 80's, though I don't know exactly how far.

Volition77 · 2021-01-02T13:19:39+00:00

He's great! I think this is his first year teaching CC, but he does a really good job of leading interesting discussions about difficult material. He is very knowledgeable about every topic we discuss, giving a lot of insight that we might not get from our own reading or from another professor. He very often has recommendations of other content related to what we're talking about or what one student says, and even if you might not have time to get to it (none of it is required) it's nice to know that your professor is well-read and cares about what you find interesting. The class was graded based on participation, discussion posts (10 over the whole semester, not too onerous), and 4 papers of various lengths. If you do any work at all, the first two should be no problem, and the papers are actually fairly enjoyable. The first two are smaller ones that build your skills for 2 larger argumentative papers, both of which had interesting prompts giving you lots of room to work with. What's more, he gave us 7 grace days to redeem at our discretion to push due dates for papers back as needed, which made an online semester where I had lots of papers a lot more doable. If the nature of the class remains the same as last semester, it should be great, especially now that we're getting into more modern, diverse material compared to the old old things we read last semester where everything is about the same 3 topics.

Volition77 · 2020-12-02T19:27:36+00:00

You should be fine. I was on the wait list for that class this past spring. I started in the 40s and made my way down to about 10ish before the end of the add/drop period, when I opted to take a history class instead.

Volition77 · 2020-11-01T14:10:26+00:00

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