Name, school: Devora Aharon, CC
Claim to fame: Student Governing Board Chair, Hillel Executive Board
Where are you going? Most likely Mount Sinai Medical School, but I am trying to take the long way across the Atlantic and then Pacific to get there.
Three things you learned at Columbia:
- Go to Orgo Night and then Midnight Breakfast – I’ve spent many Thursday nights of Reading Week trying different ways to get the best of both. This way, you’ll skip the lines at Midnight Breakfast and there’ll still be a ton of food.
- The amount of sleep you “need” is really just a question of the amount of sleep you’ve trained yourself to get.
- Every successful event at Columbia involves free food. I think people have stopped even trying to program without free food. And every successful night at Columbia involves Koronets.
Justify your existence in 30 words or fewer: I gave out money to student groups with a cause – political, activist, religious/spiritual, and humanitarian. I was basically your sugar mama to make controversy.
Any war stories from the War on Fun? The usual, moving between three parties in Ruggles as each gets broken up and revives in cycles, fighting a good fight. More personal was trying to save Postcrypt Coffeehouse, the latest victim of the War on Fun, from ridiculous Security fees they faced just to run their event as they have, peacefully, for years. This was a very discouraging episode with Columbia Bureaucracy.
Would you rather give up oral sex or cheese It is hard to resist something with so much variety.
Any advice for the Class of 2014?
- Skip Cubmail and go straight to Gmail
- Do some “Columbia” stuff before you leave, even if it’s cheesy – Pillow Fight, Backyard BBQ, Varsity Show, Orgo Night, etc. These events are where you’ll find that bit of school spirit that really does exist here, and they’ll give you a warm feeling when you look back on your time at Columbia.
- Find something you’re passionate about to get involved in—there is so much to choose from here—and throw yourself into it. Take advantage of the opportunity to work with the diverse, talented people here. Some of my most memorable experiences and most interesting friendships at Columbia were formed through my participation in groups. These are likely to be the best four years of your life, so make the most of it!
Any regrets? Not having seen Varsity Show before senior year and not having played in the snow enough.
27 Comments
@Hair Agent WOOO! Devora Aharon is AMAZING! <3 Keep workin' that hair girl ; )
@Anonymous Yeah carman 4!!
@Devora is a fox!
@Anonymous she is hot
@Devora... Marry me, please!
@Hooah I actually thought this was great. Of course I think anything with Borat in it is great. But seriously, well done, Devora.
@Anonymous do wayne simonetti he won a kings crown yo
@Anonymous do wayne simonetti. he won a kings crown yo
@Fuck Yes! Wayne is the shit.
@disappointed I was hoping the video was going to show different varieties of oral sex.
@wow, This is the most generic and boring one yet, and that advice was so lame. See bwog, this is what happens when you interview a bunch of student gov. people. They don’t actually realize that no one gives a flying fuck about student gov.
@anonymous jealous much?
@Anonymous this SW is so bland and lame.
And everyone knows it goes Orgo Night->Midnight Breakfast. Stupid senior.
@Anonymous And her advice was dumb.
Really? Everyone knows Cubmail sucks right when they first use it. And then she says to go to Columbia events and to be passionate….
Thanks.
@actually as a freshman you don’t know shit. i spent freshman year suffering through cubmail.
@Sez more about you, bub What an embarrassing self-revelation. Too bad admissions committees can’t screen for cluefulness before granting entry.
@quite right people who use columbia’s email should not be admitted to columbia
lol, you sound like a delightful person
@quite right reply to “sez more about you”
@cubmail people still use it.. so it was a great advice!
Devora rocks!
@Anonymous um, the former has nothing to do with latter…? Thanks.
@Anonymous she’s adorable
@yay Way to go Devora! One of the nicest people I met at Columbia.
@Anonymous pretty good borat video
@john cleese would have been better
@Anonymous seriously, seniors, if one more of you mentions free food at events …. haven’t you guys learned anything more original?? the whole “sleep” theme is getting kind of redundant too.
@anonymous maybe it’s because that’s what college students think about? most of us can’t relate to “go to las vegas every weekend”
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@Anonymous You obviously haven’t attempted to plan an event without free food. Epic Failure.