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Name, Hometown, School: Sarah Camiscoli, Vacuous Shell of a Suburb, New Jersey, Immaculate Heart Academy- A Haven for Well-Behaved Women
Claim to Fame: One of those girls who started FemSex, and/or that girl who brought up irrelevant points about slavery and gender performance during Lit Hum discussions of the Odyssey.
Where are you going? Abroad on a fellowship to teach ESL. Three avenues east, 6 blocks north.
Three things you learned at Columbia:
- Your relationship with your family will structure the way you see the world no matter how many times you change your major.
- Your relationships with your friends will be the stages upon which you are asked to expose, challenge, and expand that vision.
- Manifestations of race, gender, and class are not as visible as we assume them to be.
“Back in my day…” Lion Laundry was Dormaid and I was the Dormaid Girl.
Justify your existence in 30 words or less: The people who love me and want to share their time and brilliance.
Is the War on Fun over? Who won? Any war stories? My god. Get off campus.
Would you rather give up oral sex or cheese? Difficult. But funny. I should start FemCheese.
Advice for the class of 2016: Expose. Focus. Shatter. Push. Feel uncomfortable. This place is rich with possibility.
Regrets? Not pushing myself to name the difference between fear and shame.
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@Anonymous Lion Laundry/Dormaid girl? Well that company is basically my savior so I like her already!
@Fuck yall Sarah is the shit
@Anonymous I like her. She was just an acquaintance but she went totally out of her way to help me once and it was unsettling because few people at Columbia had really done that for me before…much less someone who seemed to be so on top of her shit.
@some white dude what i like about sarah camiscoli isn’t how her gender/class/race performance frustrates my white, heterosexist, able-bodied gaze, but how she reminds my queer, able-bodied friends of color that their gaze isn’t so different from mine.
@Just a Question Why specify “able-bodied” and “of color”? Does it not apply to those who are not “able-bodied” and not “of color”?
@Anonymous im fucking confused
@Anonymous You mean like a GPA?
@Sarah Camiscoli Hi friends!
Two quick things
1. Thank you for your love. And your hate. And your indifference. They are all tickling.
2. As for public hate, if commenters feel inclined to express distaste for me, please continue to do so. I would request though that this not become a space for a resurgence of the misogyny towards the folks who attend, identify with, or find community in Barnard.
@Yawn She’s more Barnard than Barnard…
@she is actually, the single most lovely human being on this campus. actually.
@put some effort in! whether sarah is awesome or not, this senior wisdom sounds like it was written in a minute and a half. there could have been an awesome one in its place…
@Aaron Johnson I will forever remember you as that girl I awkwardly say hi to but have never had a conversation with but it’s chill cause we run in the same circles.
@Anonymous Sarah is so awesome. Her intellect is so astounding, her love is so strong, and her selfless pursuit of social justice is so fierce, I am consistently blown away by her. I wish her only the most amazing future, and I know that she has the guts to make it happen. Love her with all my heart
@Awesome yep.
@Anonymous You above commenters must not have met Sarah—she’s sensitive to when something’s not right, and she’s REAL. I think this SW would read differently to you if you knew her. Sarah, you’re awesome, and I can’t express how much I admire your strength and passion. Thanks for being an inspiration. -Hannah Goldstein
@Anonymous she added me before i came to columbia when we were still in high school. I have NEVER SEEN HER in my four years hear.
@Anonymous kinda drunk, *here*
@rando sophomore i’ve talked to sarah on various occasions over the course of the past two years, and though I don’t know her nearly as well as i’d like, i think she’s a fucking superhero. i’ve met few people on this campus who seem so comfortable in their own skin and so tenaciously devoted to what they believe in. at the beginning of the year i had a brief discussion with her about the culture of morosity and academic masochism that seems to pervade our campus and she said that “some people will spend four years here, and they might to wonderfully academically, but they will fail emotionally.” sarah, if you read this, thanks for (even in that brief, insignificant moment) reminding me to keep things in perspective. you’re amazing.
@Anonymous WHAT A BORING HUMAN.
@Andrea Garcia-Vargas Sarah—this senior wisdom is so you! I am so glad to have known you. Don’t ever lose that burning passion that you always brought to every FemSex fac meeting. You’re a wonderful person, and I will never forget you.
@so much carman 5 carman 5 is the best!!
@Anonymous damn the first few comments are just depressing. it’s clear you have no idea who you’re talking about. this place is wonderful but it can be pretty fucking frosty, and this girl is a gem.
@Anonymous I had lit hum with Sarah and she was wonderful.
@CC '12 Girl is legit.
@Anonymous everytime I look at you I get dizzy. mainly because you’re so beautiful, but also because gender non-conformity is against my religion. but really more cus you’re beautiful.
@Anonymous Oh god, I know IHA. Glad you survived.
@even more carman 5 literally just like carman 5 is my ish!!!!!!
@carman 5 too so much pride for carman 5!!!!
@Anonymous …you know she’s a lesbian right?… not to be confused with pretentious
@carman 5 just killing it.
@yo sarah! you are the shit. you are kind, smart, caring, and a dope ass friend. i love that i have gotten to know you here because you’ve made my experience so much better.
@met sarah very briefly once. She was quiet friendly and very warm. I think she might be trying a little too hard to seem like shes not trying in this Wisdom though…
@CC'12 I don’t know Sarah, but she sounds like the type of person that I will never meet again once I leave this place. Even if she can come off a bit pretentious, I think its great that Columbia has people like her to challenge the way we think, and I’m sad that there are not enough people who do that outside of Columbia.
@Anonymous Why did this even get posted?
@Anonymous I have a feeling that a helluva lot more people were nominated and there’s some black box mechanism that only let a select few on the other side.
@Anonymous weird, that sounds like exactly how you got into Columbia.
@Anonymous It’s 10 PM — is your self worth based upon the outcome of a random number generator?
@Anonymous Glad she wasn’t in my LitHum.. Most annoying Senior Wisdom so far.
@The Dark Hand this is almost as disjointed and painful to read as your average Spec article…