Jack S.

I am a former undergraduate Russian major (summa cum laude) and current master’s student at Columbia’s Harriman Institute — formerly the Russia Institute, so you can guess what I’m studying. I studied Russian for an additional year after college while living in Kyrgyzstan, a Russian-speaking country in Central Asia. I passed Middlebury Monterey’s infamous entrance exam to become an interpreter, but I decided to attend Columbia instead, where I tested out of the Russian language requirement. In s…