Columbia University
Love from Student Support It has been a really exciting and successful year for Student Support! Perhaps most incredible was the amount of counselor applications we received- over 50! My co-chair Rabbit and I, as well as our Co-chairs Nemo and Simba were able to interview all the applicants over the span of two weeks, and get to know [...] 
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Columbia BlogMar 26, 2013 Love from Student SupportIt has been a really exciting and successful year for Student Support! Perhaps most incredible was the amount of counselor applications we received- over 50! My co-chair Rabbit and I, as well as our Co-chairs Nemo and Simba were able to interview all the applicants over the span of two weeks, and get to know [...]
Mar 25, 2013 SPRING BREAK!It’s been a really busy year for the Executive Board of Camp Kesem Columbia, so we welcomed Spring Break with open arms! As we all departed to different destinations, we still could not get Camp Kesem off our minds. When hanging with all my girlfriends, we made a rule to not go on our phones. [...]
Mar 13, 2013 Making Progress and Looking AheadAfter a long and arduous process, our Student Support coordinators—Orchid and Rabbit—have selected our staff for Summer 2013. This weekend we all came together for a meet-and-greet, where we were all finally able to meet (and greet) the people with whom we would be spending the best week of the year (August 25-31)! For the e-board, however, [...]
Jan 5, 2013 Why do I kesem?I will never forget the afternoons I spent sitting in the waiting room of the doctor’s office where my mom got her radiation treatment in the year following her breast cancer diagnosis. I will never forget the day I got picked up early from second grade to visit her in the hospital after her surgery. [...]
Dec 10, 2012 Stay tuned…It is finals season and the holidays are upon us! Here at Camp Kesem Columbia we are taking some time to think about why we Kesem and why Camp Kesem is such a special part of our lives. Over the next six weeks we will be featuring each member of our executive board as they [...]
Dec 5, 2012 Giving the Gift of Camp Kesem This Holiday SeasonThe end of the semester is fast upon us, and we here at CK Columbia are really feeling the holiday cheer. Yesterday began the first day of a week of fun times at Barnes & Noble. Every year, during the holiday season, Barnes & Noble provides free gift wrapping for their customers. Guess who’s [...]
Nov 26, 2012 We want YOU to be part of OUR FAMILY!Well folks, it happened. Counselor applications have been released! I wish we could have had some kind of extravagant celebration along the lines of the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center or the upcoming Presidential Inauguration. The awesomeness of Camp Kesem Columbia definitely merits a musical performance by Justin Bieber or Aretha Franklin…just saying. Imagine an [...]
Nov 12, 2012 T-5 days: Camp Kesem Fall Reunion 2012!!With Thanksgiving right around the corner and students gearing up to be with family and friends gobbling down yummy foods, what could be better than taking a break from our school routine to get together with our Camp Kesem family?! Yeah, I agree…. NOTHING. On November 17th, we’ll be hosting our first CK reunion! Spoiler alert: [...]
Nov 5, 2012 “You can crush a caterpillar but you can’t crush Kesem.”Top: Squirt, Stretch, Orchid, Mint, Spud, Avocado, Nemo, Dory Bottom: Simba, Mushu, Skippy Our coordinator board here at Camp Kesem Columbia just got back from an incredible weekend at CK National Leadership Summit at Camp Copneconic in Fenton, Michigan! These past few days, we had the opportunity to meet some amazing student leaders from all [...]
Oct 30, 2012 Something to smile about during SandyHey all! We’re currently in the thick of Hurricane Sandy at Columbia/Barnard and everyone is hunkered down in their dorms with as much non-perishable food and bottled water as they could buy in the pre-hurricane crush at the supermarkets yesterday. It’s been pitch black outside for hours now, and news of the flooding and and [...]
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