Difference between revisions of "Dropouts"

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* [[Lauryn Hill]]
 
* [[Lauryn Hill]]
 
* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]]
 
* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]]
* Isamu Noguchi (Famous Sculptor. Dropped out of CC's Premed program to sculpt full-time)
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* [[Isamu Noguchi]] (Famous Sculptor. Dropped out of CC's Premed program to sculpt full-time)
* José Raúl Capablanca (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927. Dropped out of Mining after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)
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* [[José Raúl Capablanca]] (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927. Dropped out of Mining after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)
 
* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (Spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the University of Chicago and St. John's College in Annapolis. Didn't bother to take the Swim test, and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]])
 
* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (Spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the University of Chicago and St. John's College in Annapolis. Didn't bother to take the Swim test, and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]])
 
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (Law School, elected to State Assembly)
 
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (Law School, elected to State Assembly)

Revision as of 18:01, 17 November 2007

Some, (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students never actually graduated. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good, that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm!