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Columbia Mission Statement

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Growing up in New York City has been a wonderful experience. It’s made me realize the rich and engaging city Columbia is located in. While I do want to study in a lively area, I want to go to a University that provides me the best education and resources I could have. Majority of the faculty teaching at the college has been tremendously recognized within their respective fields, what better than to be guided by those very professionals. Learning organic chemistry under the tutorship of the likes of James Leighton, who has made incredible advances in the synthesis and application of polyketides as anticancer chemotherapeutic agents, or 19th-century American literature Professor Susan Bernofsky would be unimaginable. Another attractive consideration for me as an applicant is the Borrow Direct Plus On-Site Borrowing Program offered with the Butler Library student membership, in which students are able to borrow books …show more content…

Reading the journal of Rosalind Franklin, the discoverer of DNA, would be difficult because there are so few copies, but this program can get it for me, and connect me to new thought processes and ideas. I believe that Columbia’s mission to refine its students’ analytic and imaginative thinking is inspiring and will overall be beneficial to my education. The university is able to follow their mission statement not only through its diligent faculty, but its constant technological innovation and advancement. In the near future, the chemistry department will have its very own biology autoclave and cold room, which allow students to conduct industrial processes requiring elevated temperature and pressure levels. The culmination of Columbia’s resources and faculty is through the SURF and Amgen Scholars Program, in which the Department of Biological Science enables undergraduates to conduct hands on laboratory research. I can already see my future at Columbia

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