31. Welcome to Spring 2025!

33. Things to Do in Chicago: March

This new series, Things to Do In Chicago, will highlight events around the city that celebrate and affirm our identities. For March we found these and more! -Chicago Theatre Works, Coffee and Mental Health, Hip Hop and R&B Open Mic -National Puerto Rican Museum ASL Tour -Women’s History Month Craft Market  This episode is available on our Spotify and Apply Podcast pages, “Our First Year - Columbia College Chicago”. Enjoy, and see you there!

32. Talking About Love on Valentine's Day

All things love during Valentine's Day this year! No matter what you are doing today, we hope you are feeling loved and supported. <3

31. Welcome to Spring 2025!

Welcome to the Spring semester! With a lot on our minds coming in, Rea and John talked about what they are thinking about as they welcome our peers back and are excited to meet students who are new to the campus.  “Break was very restorative, but maybe not exactly how I thought it would look. Is it January 60th?”  “I hope everyone is feeling pride and joy as they are starting this semester.”  “Welcome to Columbia!!”

30. Book Club Episode 1: We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice” by adrienne maree brown

The Peer Support program Presents our first Book Club episode of Our First Year! The goal of this series is to provide our listeners with the information and tools held in books and give it back to you all. It is meant encourage the act of reading, but you do not need to read any of the books we discuss to listen. We will talk about a book we love and see how the information applies to us as college students.  The first book we discuss is “We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice” by adrienne maree brown, a book that reframes the discussion of “cancel culture” for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse.

29. Finding your community and getting involved midway through the year.

In SDI and the Peer Support Program, we always say the work of diversity and inclusion takes a community. We also name that it can feel hard if you feel like you have not found an on campus community yet. In this episode of Our First Year, peer mentor Mar talks with campus about how normal it actually is to still feel like you a searching for your place on campus.