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The 2008-2009 Rhodes Scholars have been announced, and Columbia’s very own R. Jisung Park of Shelton Connecticut has made the list!
Per the winners’ bios press release: “R. Jisung Park, Shelton, Connecticut, is a senior at Columbia where is a double major in economics and political science. Jisung has done research in tropical rainforest studies in Australia and has developed a cross-disciplinary course of study at Columbia in sustainable development. He serves on the editorial board of a journal on sustainable development, is an a capella bass singer, has taught English in Korea, and spent a year studying at Oxford. He will return to Oxford to do an M.Sc. in nature, society, and environmental policy.”
Congratulations R. Jisung Park! We look forward to congratulating you once again when PBK is announced.
Last year two Columbians were awarded the scholarship: Jason Bello and George Olive. In terms of inter-Ivy competition, Princeton was the big winner this year, with three students represented. Harvard was runner-up with two, and Brown, Penn and Yale tied with Columbia. Hear that Yale? Tied.
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@god there are way too many gay people on this campus
@for the record just so it’s out there, since this cannot be said of everyone who gets these awards:
ji is an awesome guy and i think anyone who knows him is just downright happy for him. he’s a totally grounded, humble, cool guy and i really don’t think this will go to his head any more than it should. ji deserves this and we should all be proud he’s a columbian.
@absolutely I could not think of a more deserving person for this award.
@oyez Long Live Michael Pippenger, Dean of Deans!
@drunk I saw them celebrating at 1020 last night!
@oh man i didn’t apply to yale. columbia ED babies.
but jisung is pretty hot. last year’s rhodes scholars were also pretty hot too. am i seeing a pattern? PERFECT PEOPLE!?
@no joke jisung is one hot piece of eye candy.
@mee Congrats Jisung!
@please spell ‘hear’ correctly
@ooooh A true achievement!!! Congratulations, Jisung! I am proud to be your classmate. :)
@jisung is also totally hot. this comes from a straight man.
@are you sure you’re straight?
@You know I think Bwog has a bit of a Yale complex.
(And congrats to Jisung.)
@yeah seriously Bwog seems to have the impression that everybody is here because we got rejected by Yale. I guess Bwog was rejected by Yale?
@Alum The Yale feud is a long-standing joke that Bwog did not create. Chill out.
@most of us didn’t even apply
@it's okay your unconscious mind may have repressed the memory. i know it was painful to go to your second choice, but you can let it out here man…we’re all in the same boat…
@Grow Up Bwog It’s about time you got over your Yale syndrome. Most of us didn’t apply to Yale, and some of us chose Columbia over Yale.
There is no need to feel inferior to our New Haven compatriots, so Bwog stop reinforcing it with daily posts
@seriously man, you can be safe here. you can let out your sadness…
@3 things 1. Congratulations to the Rhodes scholar
2. Bwog, either “Here that Yale?” is brilliant or incredibly sad
3. Who cares about Yale?
@EAL Ji completely deserves this. Well done, man. Well done.