Senior Saturday: Nimra Khan

I actually transferred here from Georgetown! What made me really want to go to Columbia was the core and the fact that Columbia was in the city (I was born here, and my older sister went to NYU!). 

 

 

Although I admittedly hated the Core while I was taking Core classes (except for music hum, I loved music hum!), I sort of understand the point of it. I think it is a cool bond that all Columbia alum share. When I working at Birchbox a couple of summers ago, my team leader was a Columbia graduate. It was pretty cool to bond with him over our mutual distaste for the core (I was still in Core classes at the time). So even though we both didn’t LOVE the Core, we were still able to bond over the shared experiences. One thing I will say is that I do always wish that they would diversify the Core to make it less focused on the Western canon. 

 

The two main things I have been involved in on campus are Residential Life and my sorority, Sigma Delta Tau. I am currently a second year RA in Carman, and being an RA has simply been one of the highlights of the Columbia experience. I was driven to build a community that people felt proud to be a part of. I wanted to get to know my residents really well and have them feel as though they could come to me for anything and everything. I think I was able to do that this year and last year. My Carman 10 and Carman 7 residents have become some of my closest friends, and I am truly honored to know all of them! In addition to my residents, the rest of the Carman staff are some of the greatest people I will ever have the pleasure of knowing, and I am so lucky to work with such amazing people! 

Additionally, I have been super involved in my sorority. I have held a number of positions (e board secretary, vice president, and most recently vp new member education). In my role as new member educator, I got to welcome our amazing pledge class of 52 lovely women to the sorority! It was a wonderful role that allowed me to bond with so many of our new sisdters.

 

 

My room, duh. I almost never leave it!

 

I am currently pass-failing Java with Adam Cannon, and I am truly obsessed with the class. Even though I am pass-failing it, I put a lot of work into it because I find it so rewarding to be able to type up a code that looks like gibberish to everyone else and have it actually run properly. There is truly no more satisfying feeling…sorry if that makes me sound like a super nerd. Also Cannon is hilarious and makes me excited to go to class every Tuesday and Thursday! 

 

 

Sir Mike, easy. Sir Mike is one of the security guards at the front desk in Carman. He is simply one of the best men I have ever met. On a given weekday night, you will surely see Mike in Carman giving people handshakes or fist bumps or just singing along with his CDs. Seeing him truly always puts a smile on my face. I hope he knows how much joy he brings to all the Carman residents! 

 

 

Oh man, this is a tough question. I truly don’t know. As of right now, I am working for Bloomingdale’s corporate after I graduate, but I truly have no idea what is to come for me. I really would love to pursue a higher degree, I just don’t know in what yet. I could realistically see myself going to business school, med school (most underrated fact about me: I am pre-med), or even law school. Truth be told, I am terrified for what is to come after I graduate in 51 days, but I am also excited. In a perfect world, I would be able to try everything out for a couple months, and then decide what I wanted to do in the end, but I am pretty sure the world doesn’t work like that, unfortunately! 

All I am sure about is that 5 years from now I want to be happy more than anything else. I don’t know exactly what that will look like yet, but I am waiting anxiously/excitedly to find out!