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We have always heard the phrase that “hope springs eternal,” as the air gets warmer, the grass gets greener, in most places the future beckons brightly, we tend to get more excited and hopefully interested in what lies around the corner. Maybe that’s why the spring transfer window in college athletics opened this week. (Well …
This time of year as we move quickly closer to March Madness I like to look around the celebrations on TV or in person and notice those young people around the bench getting to experience the thrill of victory or the agony of defat for the first time. While the larger schools, and usually the …
The first few days of the week have brought with it a great number of learnings as we head down the stretch of 2025, and wrap another semester on campus at Columbia. To give our students some value add this fall, we were able to sync schedules with a longtime friend, Jack Armstrong, the longtime …
Maybe it’s because I’m older and in the range where your have friends and colleagues whose partners, and parents are just reaching the end of that circle of life more often. Maybe it’s because we close in on the most profound day of loss for so many of us…September 11…that we notice these things more. …
A few weeks ago, I was walking in Chelsea in Manhattan with my son Andrew when we noticed a sign from a bygone era…a Fallout Shelter. Built deep in cement basements, the idea was when the big one dropped you would head down, and siloed away with these rations and large containers of drinkable water, you …
Since it looks like I will have not one, but two classes at Columbia this fall, I have started the pre-course “Get to Know You” calls and emails with students. It is earlier than usual, but never loses its joy for me. This summer I took a break from the teaching…or I think more of …
“No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.” Neil deGrasse Tyson It’s that time of year where the requests for help with jobs, internships, college choices come from parents and recent grads in droves. With uncertainty in the job market still a concern for many, …
It always seems to happen more around this time of year for various reasons…fiscal calendars, graduations, changes in leadership and so on…but the spigot on people reaching out to find out what’s next in their careers seems to get much bigger. One theme that always seems to come up is the question of “why people …
A story in this week’s Wall Street Journal by Demetria Gallegos asked readers a provocative question…” What Memento Do You Want To Be Remembered By?” Their responses from readers ranged from classic books to images that framed the users in a more youthful time to family heirlooms…most, almost all were physical items rather than virtual …
I rarely don’t take the call. Sometimes people say to my why? What could a startup with little money, an innercity tackle football program, an aspiring elder Olympic hopeful, the idea of a building a media hub for soccer leading into World Cup, a referral for a high school friend, a germ of an idea …
