Name, Hometown, School, Major: Mario Gabriele, London, UK, Columbia College

Claim to Fame: My time in Morningside was pretty devoid of fame, though I did stumble into a little infamy while abroad in Nepal. An angry middle-aged villager in the Himalayas is not fond of me…I called him a naughty man in nepali (never say that), he chased me me with fist-sized stones. A sort of justice?

Where are you going? Heading to Eastern Europe with the lads before starting work in the city. I’ll be doing strategy work for a corporate litigation boutique, which is a lengthy way of saying I’m hoping I’ll get to frazzle some white collar crimz.

Three things you learned at Columbia:

  1. The Core is epic, and not solely in the literal sense. You start off thinking it’s sort of cool, then its dinner-party drivel and finally, you realize it’s informed the way you think at a fundamental level.
  2. You can top up flex online. I figured that out a month ago. Yikes.
  3. People are pretty much always down to help out.

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