Senior Wisdom: Tyeisha Chavis
As graduation nears, Senior Wisdom presses on. Today, we check in with CC senior and Delta Sigma Theta President Tyeisha Chavis
Name, School: Tyeisha H. Chavis, Columbia College 2008
Claim to fame: If I served the Lord according to the calling He placed on my life, than I would have done a job well done.
Post-grad plans: New York City Teaching Fellow
Preferred swim test stroke? Front stroke
Justify your existence in 30 words or less. God has a purpose for my life.
What Columbia memory best exemplifies your college experience? The historic memory of the 1968 riots and most recent protests that have shaped my experience at Columbia, and contributed to the ways in which I acted to affect change.
Days on Campus memory? The massive step show on college walk with a wide array of National Pan Hellenic Council Greek steppers.
Regrets? I make a conscious decision not to live with any regrets.
Tags: senior wisdom, senior wisdom 2008
6 May 2008 @ 8:26 AM · 64 comments
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What are three things she learned at Columbia??
one of the blander senior wisdoms yet…
maybe she only answered these questions?
‘affect’ change or ‘effect’ change?
affect is a verb, effect is a noun. figure it out for yourself
actually effect can be used as a verb, most commonly in the phrase “effect change”.
actually it’s “effect,” acting as a verb. “Effecting change” means bringing about change, ie, putting change into effect
I guess the Lord called upon her to be boring.
and just putting out there, Tyeisha is awesome, and I think some of these posters are conflating boring with absence of snark. It’s totally not the same.
Of these interviews is to have a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor. Lots of people get by with simply existing, but they don’t make a good read or story. She answered this like a required professor evaluation form.
wow. why is she special again?
BOOOOOORRRRRRINGGG
Jesus would have answered this with a lil more spice!
the president of a Sorority. Which is pretty cool.
She’s also cool because she doesn’t seem like an overachiever, simply someone who does her work and is content with that. (unlike most of the senior wisdoms so far). She may be one of the wisest people who’s written so far.
this thing was abridged because i fell asleep 50% of the way through it.
she wasn’t the best RA
i think she’ll regret this one.
There just wasn’t any wisdom here. Seriously, the whole point of these is the “3 things you learned at Columbia”. I’m not bored; I’m just wondering where the rest of it is. And if you’re confused by the idiot above, “affect change” is wrong. The only way you can affect change is if you’re trying to stop it!
Absolutely uninspiring.
She’s the first black person on Senior Wisdom, I think. Get some yellow and brown, please.
geoff aung is burmese.
if you’re going to profile someone just because they’re greek, profile someone good
she is not out to impress bwog commenters. Her claim to fame may sound boring, but I understand it. People, think twice before declaring a non-flashy interview as unwise. There are loads of wisdom in her words and in her demeanor.
It’s awesome that someone this chill, put-together and grounded, has served in leadership in someway on campus.
Good that you understand her claim to fame, because I had to read it twice to get past the glaring grammatical error (than) and then figure out why exactly her non-specific shout-out to her religion (which I share, by the way) qualified her in any way as an interesting person. I mean, I’m all for Christian humility, but she didn’t answer the question!
I’m sure she’s a chill, put-together, grounded, and wonderful person in real life, but this is a terrible questionnaire. It does not evince the wisdom that is suggested by her background (student leader, NYC Teaching Fellow).
may be great, but nothing she says here even hints at it
Tyeisha is a pretty cool gal on campus. :)
Try to get to know her, she is really sweet.
I love Tyeisha! I’m so glad they asked her to do a senior wisdom! YAY TY!
I wonder if people like her also phrase their essays as such. “The Lord gave us a dark and stormy night.”
“And then (with the blessings of the Lord) I engaged in intercourse.”
If bwog commenters like to end their essays with lowercase descriptions of colors.
Gradually, a shot rang out.
god is dead. gg.
lamest senior wisdom. Nothing terribly wise, nor interesting.
My guess is if she was forced to answer everything, she would’ve picked cheese. Just a thought.
sorry, it really is boring. she may be an awesome person, but her senior wisdom is boring, rote, and feels forced. if you’re not gonna have fun with something like this, don’t even bother doing it.
oh come on guys. when bwog was profiling Rhodes recipients people complained about wanting to see “normal people” and when bwog finally does a normal person, she’s denounced as utterly boring. go back to profiling superstudents bwog!
They only gave her 3/5 of the survey.
Bwog is racist, but subtly so.
LOL WURD.
best post in recent memory
is it also racist that the photo of her is in black and white?
(without my oh-so-valuable columbia education i would never have picked up on that – thanks columbia!)
most boring senior wisdom ever
EVER!
on ahimsa
BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
snore snore snore * makee triangle shape with hands. *
CLEARLY want to be in her sorority….
her sorority is a so-called “multicultural” sorority, which means it is only open to black women and has about 6 members.
to read a bible thumper’s perspective I’d read Fox news.
If the memory that best exemplified her college experience is “The historic memory of the 1968 riots and most recent protests that have shaped my experience at Columbia”, she probably doesn’t share the Fox News perspective.
Of course, her answers suggests that she is in the bottom 10% of Columbia’s IQ distribution.. but that’s another matter.
tyeisha’s not gonna read this…no for real… she doesn’t read the bwog….
where is the cheese question?
….and this is why bwog didnt choose a lot of minorities to answer senior wisdoms
You go to Barnard. STFU
i got a columbia email address so ill say whatever the fuck i want shithead.
too bad that e-mail address doesn’t make you any less of an idiot.
ridiculous
“The historic memory of the 1968 riots and most recent protests that have shaped my experience at Columbia, and contributed to the ways in which I acted to affect change.”
This is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. But it’s also how probably 60% of CU peeps think about these kinds of things. Yay, a riot – and of course I’m better for it. What?!
True, the profile is truncated, and the answers given aren’t hyper-entertaining. But it is nice to see someone profiled who doesn’t shy away from their faith.
What would be the point of having yet another secular-humanist type talking about feeling transcendent whenever power has truth spoken to it? That would also be super-boring. At least she breaks the Columbia mold in that respect.
thing to have faith, it’s another thing to answer every question with “i
…with “i[less than three]jesus and so should you”
Oh yes, because white people are much more interesting than anything else will ever be! Bitch.
In reply to #47
i’m in a seminar with her and she’s WAY funnier than this in real life.
I’m sorry but this is really a fucking bad choice for Senior Wisdom. The girl is a bitch, you have to know her and you will realize that…
Didn’t she hear? God is dead.
Pwnt.
ive interacted with her a coupl;e of times and she’s kinda bitchy.
She’s my RA and she really sucks…
i like her because her initials are THC
the worst RA ever