<p>Oh, I missed OP’s point about hating analytic essays. In that case, Columbia may not be for you. In my Lit Hum class we write two-three essays per semester. The essay are 5 pages long( this is the average paper length). Our essays have almost nothing to do with foreshadowing and all that nonsense. My professor frankly stated he didn’t care about foreshadowing. Instead, our essays require close reading. This means you have to read a small section of the text and analyze everything in it, the words the author uses, his style, his ideas, what he’s trying to convey and then create an essay around it.
After Lit Hum, we have university Writing in which we write 5-10 pages of analytic essays about , sometimes obscure academic essays. I haven’t even taken CC or Music/artHUm which both require papers.</p>