Back to the Future

By Emily Tamkin

About Back to the Future

Emily Tamkin is a Columbia College senior majoring in Russian literature and culture. She is the general manager of the Columbia Political Union, vice chair of the Senior Fund, literary criticism editor of The Birch, and a former Spectator editorial page editor. Back to the Future runs alternate Wednesdays

Articles

A word from Doc Brown

By Emily Tamkin
Apr 17 06:50 pm ET

We hold the power to determine our own futures.

The last shall be first

By Emily Tamkin
Apr 3 06:57 pm ET

There are beginnings to be found in endings.

I speak Columbian, and so can you

By Emily Tamkin
Mar 20 07:40 pm ET

Use language to include rather than to exclude.

Do not ask me what I’m doing next year

By Emily Tamkin
Feb 28 08:13 pm ET

Instead, ask what me what I want to do next year.

Say 'be mine' in your own good time

By Emily Tamkin
Feb 14 06:39 pm ET

Whether you want to get married sooner or later, or not at all is up to you.

The big man on campus is small

By Emily Tamkin
Jan 31 08:23 pm ET

Achievements may seem elusive after we enter the real world.

Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me

By Emily Tamkin
Jan 17 08:47 pm ET

We should reconsider what we mean by "staying in touch."

On being immature, maturely

By Emily Tamkin
Dec 4 05:51 pm ET

We have reason to revert to moments of childish naïveté.

My final class act

By Emily Tamkin
Nov 20 06:05 pm ET

As much as I wish I had learned even more in college, I have no regrets.

Don't rank stressed students

By Emily Tamkin
Oct 23 09:48 pm ET

There's more to our lives than talking about the amount of work we have.

The undergraduate lament

By Emily Tamkin
Oct 9 08:11 pm ET

Learning is much more important to us beyond getting us a job–but why?

If ours is a lost generation

By Emily Tamkin
Sep 25 05:20 pm ET

The media often forgets our ability to rise to the challenges of the economic recession.

What I would like to tell an interviewer

By Emily Tamkin
Sep 11 07:06 pm ET

The value of my study abroad shouldn't be measured by the job it gets me.

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