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Meet Your Salutatorian, CC

Via Columbia's website:

"Julia Kalow, of Newton, Mass., is majoring in chemistry and creative writing. A winner of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, she works in the lab of Professor Jim Leighton in a synthetic chemistry research group. She also is an accomplished flautist, playing with the Columbia University Wind Ensemble, and a dancer. Her interest in creative writing focuses on short prose forms and fiction. Kalow will pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry next year and intends to teach at the university level."

Kalow is also a short prose writer, and a talented one at that. You can read her work in the March issue of the Blue and White and in our upcoming April/May double-issue. And for a fun, semi-Julia Kalow-themed matching game, see our earlier post about Phi Beta Kappa.

Congrats!


Posted by Julia Fan: #1 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Good job, Columbia, excellent choice. Julia is amazing. She's a fabulous writer and a brilliant scientist, the total right brain/left brain package, and someone who is that smart and accomplished has every right to be full of themselves. But instead, Julia is one of the sweetest, funniest, most down-to-earth people I've met at Columbia. She is an all around great person who has done a lot for this school, in terms of both academics and extracurriculars. I'm confident she will give a killer speech. Yay Julia!
Posted by Julia: #2 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM (from campus)
IS AWESOME!!! We have such a great valedictorian and salutatorian. Go CC'08!!
Posted by meh: #3 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 7:19 PM (from campus)
cue the arguments that it is easier to get A's in chemistry than in some liberal arts major.
Posted by yea but: #4 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 7:26 PM (from campus)
she's a creative writing major also...so bitter humanities majors can STFU

congrats, julia!
Posted by Proudhon: #5 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Shoshana Schwartz was probably a close third.
Posted by Anonymous: #6 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 7:45 PM (from campus)
You got the argument wrong. It's A+s which are easier. And this is true, but it doesn't matter in this case, because she's a double major.
Posted by random: #7 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:05 PM (from campus)
As a chemistry major, I know that it is not easy to get A's in the upper level classes. hats off to this girl.
Posted by Irrelevbant: #8 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM (from campus)
The effort that it takes to get an A in a humanities class is not even remotely close to the effort to involved in getting an A in a science class. It would be at most a B+
Posted by i think: #9 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:24 PM (from campus)
that julia is AMAZING!
Posted by that's hot: #10 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:29 PM (from campus)
in a inter-disciplinary sort of way.

congrats :)
Posted by .s.: #11 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM (from campus)
[external link to www.columbia.edu]
Posted by I love her: #12 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM (from campus)
Julia is the best and kind of a genius, congrats!
Posted by big fan: #13 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Julia is fantastic!!! I have a really hard time thinking of anyone who might even remotely deserve the honor more than her! YAYAYAYAY
Posted by chem major: #14 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM
i think hans renata will tell you otherwise...
Posted by chem major: #15 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 9:32 PM
oops. that was in reply to post #7
Posted by yay!: #16 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM (from campus)
so proud of you julia! you work so hard at everything you do and i can't think of anyone else who deserves this more than you!
Posted by i sat next to: #17 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 9:51 PM
julia once on the chinatown bus from boston to new york. fastest the four hours ever felt. she probably doesn't remember it, but i had sooo much fun talking with her that i still do!

congrats!
Posted by cyclist: #18 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 10:15 PM (from campus)
that father's day card is pretty hilarious.

congrats julia! princeton is very lucky!
Posted by 2008: #19 · reply · track
April 28, 2008 at 10:20 PM (from campus)
Congrats to Maxim and Julia, you guys are great!
Posted by Awww: #20 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 2:03 AM (from campus)
Awesome! I'm glad that there is proof now that I didn't scar her too much by being a terrible roommate. I'm a pterodactyl! :o)
Posted by dreamer40: #21 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM (from campus)
I had lit hum with Julia; she's a cool cat!
Posted by awesome!: #22 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 3:12 AM
congratulations julia!

-former arabic classmate
Posted by super-psyched: #23 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 9:20 AM (from campus)
julia is awesome. I think one of the things that speaks to that is the fact that she didn't tell anyone that she was salutatorian, not even her close friends. She's an extremely gifted but modest person. It made my day to see that genuinely good people can go far.
Posted by Little Liverbird: #24 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Congratulations Julia!
Posted by SEAS '08: #25 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM (from campus)
the SEAS ones are:

Frank Zovko for valedictorian and Eric Wei for salutatorian. Bwog needs to do an entry about them.
Posted by i love you: #26 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 1:14 PM (from campus)
Julia I love you! Seriously. . . like wow, even though I still think you are french and am adamant that there are 3 doors on the elevator ;)

Also ERIC WEI! So exciting! Why is this not announced. I love that kid.

2 of the nicest and so freaking modest salutatorians ever.
Posted by ps. : #27 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM (from campus)
ps. that picture is hot!
Posted by can I just say...: #28 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Can I just say that it's easy to get an A+ in every major except mine?

Posted by yayyyy: #29 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 3:27 PM (from campus)
julia!
Posted by Avanti: #30 · reply · track
April 29, 2008 at 5:12 PM (from campus)
Congratulations Julia!

So happy :)
Posted by Nina: #31 · reply · track
May 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Julia Kalow has been my idol ever since 9th grade history class!!!

WOOT WOOT!!!
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