Category: Outdoors

  • Bear With Me: A Dispatch From My Photography Trip to Alaska

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    It is 9:48 p.m. on June 25, and I am at Fairbanks International Airport. The airport is bright and spacious, much as Alaska itself had been promised to be, and as I struggle to stay awake while waiting to board, I remind myself why I decided to come here in the first place. When I…

  • Finding Community on the Field with Columbia

    Finding Community on the Field with Columbia

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    It’s easy to get caught up in the grind of grad school—endless deadlines, research setbacks, and, now, growing uncertainty around funding. It can feel isolating, even suffocating, like you’re in it alone. That’s exactly why the Graduate Student Executive Council (GSEC) at Weill Cornell has been prioritizing community-building events that bring students together. As vice…