<p>“Heh” or “Hahahaha” or “books?”</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>“I Hope they Serve Beer in Hell”</p>
<p>umm, in a word… No.</p>
<p>I highly doubt they’d appreciate your humor on that part of the app. The books you read are supposed to develop to their opinion on your interests. By leaving it blank/joking around, you’re telling them you’re uncultured.</p>
<p>well…</p>
<p>I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell IS a book, albeit a crude one</p>
<p>
They’d probably laugh for a second, show their colleagues around them, laugh some more, then throw you in the reject pile.</p>
<p>Don’t do it.</p>
<p>If you hate reading, you aren’t going to appreciate the core.</p>
<p>bad idea…</p>
<p>hahahahahahahaa</p>
<p>nope, but they apparently took calvin and hobbes as an answer. 
(along with a bunch of other literary merit novels)</p>
<p>You can put “I hope they serve beer in hell” as one of the books as long as you have a few serious books in there too. They know HS students don’t read super long and deep novels all the time, and sometimes like to read a lighter book for fun.</p>
<p>Oh, and your first question, all I can say is: Stop ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>I used When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin in my list and didn’t get rejected outright, so whatever, as long as that’s not all you put.</p>
<p>But yeah, as golfer mentioned, stop ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>I heard from a Columbia student that the schools sends a copy of the Iliad to all of its accepted students, and enrolled students must read the first half (or something like it) by the first day of class. Then the second half is assigned for homework that night. o__O’’ His advice: read it beforehand, or you’re in for a long night.</p>
<p>What is ■■■■■■■■???//</p>
<p>possibly what yr doing…:D</p>
<p>However, if your question is legitimate, ■■■■■■■■ is asking dumb questions in order to make other posters angry.</p>
<p>@darkblade
Yeah, the Iliad is the first book read in LitHum, and it would not surprise me if you had to read the first half by the first day of class. And I think the pace of the course is pretty quick, around a book every week or two.</p>
<p>If you don’t read, don’t bother submitting your application because Columbia is by no means right for you. </p>
<p>On a more serious note, do you guys think it would be alright to put the Iliad in the books question? I actually did read it for pleasure this year, but I don’t want them to think I’m just putting it down because it’s the first book they assign.</p>
<p>If you read other classics in your spare time I don’t think they will think you just listed it to impress them. If it is the only classic then maybe they would, I can’t say.</p>
<p>^^ Why not? Obviously Columbia likes its Iliad “tradition”–if you do get in you’ll be ahead of the crowd.</p>
<p>trf1021, they certainly won’t penalize you for reading it and I don’t see anything bad about reading a book they assign.</p>