 And what we do in that first semester is do intensive learning, particularly on the skills that you aren't really used to or really don't have capability in, so that the whole class really gets to a level playing field in terms of knowledge and an ability to share understanding and evaluation and analysis of real estate. So even if you've had some finance background, you're going to be learning more about the physical environment. Likewise, if you have an architecture or planning background, you're going to learn more about finance during that time. But everyone as a class participates in these larger core subjects and these larger core courses in order to get these fundamentals well and truly nailed in that first semester. So then going into the second semester in the fall, what you do is you continue some of the core requirements. Now we're starting to build in legal principles, understanding of underwriting of real estate acquisitions and debt and so on. But also now you've got a wide variety of electives. And this is where you can start to think about where you might want to go and work, whether you're going to work in development or whether you're going to work in acquisitions or finance or community engagement. And this is where those electives start hooning your skills towards that particular outcome and appropriate for the type of work you're going to pursue or the type of career. And then as they say, final semester is a synthesis. And this is where we just make sure that you've got all your skills up to scratch for graduation. You do this wonderful deal book, which is a very exciting project where you're able to prove your comprehensive capability. But also at that time you're able to continue to pursue your particular interest or your particular passion and some specific electives at that time in order to prepare you for your employment. In that final semester, of course, we've got our career fair. You're starting to look for jobs. You may have an internship, a part-time internship and so on. So that final semester is very much a preliminary to being launched as a professional. Okay. And so what we have of course, it's a rich program in that not only do you have a lot of intensive coursework and wonderful projects that you do as groups and then projects you do individually, but additionally we bring in a lot of speakers. You form clubs of interests such as development by design or private equity or global real estate or sustainability. And you're able to bring in various speakers. You're able to go and visit projects and really learn about those type of things. In addition, as a wonderful supplement to what you're learning just in the classroom, we have in various speakers that are noted in industry. We also have an annual conference where these speakers are either on panels or giving keynotes. And so you're absolutely able to get to understand and know exactly what's working out, what's working in the real world just as you're also learning the technical skills. As I say, we have a great conference, an annual conference this year. April 25th at the Pierre Hotel. We do have some substantial speakers and keynote addresses and so on. Very importantly, we are not a search firm getting you a job, but we very strongly support you in your looking for a position as you move towards graduation. To do this, we bring in annually a whole lot of potential employers or people that are out there that are alumni or have hired from our graduates in the past and they come in and speak to you about what their companies do, how they're expanding, what might be of interest to you in terms of working within those companies. So it's a very exciting event and we get a lot of enthusiasm from industry to be there and present and basically get first dibs on you students as you're about to graduate. We do lots of site tours. Real estate is a very tangible thing, so it's great to be able to go and really touch it and feel it and experience the spaces and understand how these buildings come into existence, both in terms of their physical design, the resolution of the urban context and then the financial and capital markets aspects of them. We also, as I say, do foreign trips. We're able to get overseas for either conferences or just for a week-long study trip. Of course, there's lots of interaction with alumni even while you're in the program, not just once you graduate, but within the program we have mentors. Hopefully, you get a really exciting mentor that does a one-on-one discussion with you and gives you a little insight into industry and so on. And then, of course, it's a very good group. We have a lot of learning to do, a lot of hard work to do, but then also a lot of enthusiasm for relaxing and having a lot of fun at the end. So that's about it for the program, just as an overview. Any questions on that before we move on to introducing some of our other faculty? No? Okay. All right. Well, we'll start with we've got Professor Kate Asher. Kate, would you like to introduce yourself? Sure. Let me just unmute. Hi, I'm Kate Asher. I've taught in the program for about a decade. My background is in private and public sectors. I've worked in real estate and in state and city government and in private finance, and I teach a number of the planning, transportation, kind of urban development type courses. Nice to meet all of you. Great. Thank you. Professor Munsell. Chris Munsell? Yes. Hi, everyone. I'm Chris Munsell. I'm the Glasscock Professor of Real Estate Finance. I teach the core real estate finance curriculum, and you'll have me in the fall and spring semesters. I also teach an advanced placement elective for those of you who really want to get into the weeds of the math. And like many of you will are about to embark on this venture, I was also a student here. So, you know, I try to tailor a lot of my teaching towards your perspective, meeting those needs, but from my own experience, it was really one of the most, like, life-changing decisions I made. I got so much out of the program. I met my spouse here. All my friends are here, so I hope you guys, you know, get the same opportunity. Thank you. Professor King, Cecily King. Good morning, everyone. My name is Cecily King. I am a real estate developer and consultant, as well as a professor in this program. I'm excited to have you all here. As far as academics, I teach the core development courses. That's been my experience, both on the public side of the table, as well as the private side of the table, as well as an entrepreneur now. So, your learnings from me are really based in real-world case study, asking you to look at a site, determine what you're going to build, how you're going to fund it, how you're going to finance it, what are your returns, the real assessments that you make in the development world on a daily basis. So, you'll see me in the spring for your capstone course. I also, in terms of electives, I teach classes around housing affordability and equitable development, especially in urban environments, urban economics, etc. And so, you'll see me in a couple of different, approach real estate from a couple of different lenses. Like Professor Menzel, I'm also an alum of the program. I'm on the alumni board as well. And so, I'm really excited for you all to sit in the same seats that I have. And, you know, I have a particular perspective, having been where you all are making the decision that you are making right now. So, good luck and hope to see you next year. Thank you, Professor Lubinsky. Hi, good morning, everyone. It's great to see such a good crowd of folks here. I am a professor of practice and tend to focus coursework on the physical planning aspects. So, looking at urban planning, design and architecture, you know, that as Professor Darrington showed in that triangle, the physical planning aspects of this is one of the critical components of the program. And when I'm not teaching at Columbia, I'm a partner in a practice called WXY Studio. We are a design, architecture, and planning practice in the city. And we deal a lot with the challenges of development. How do you establish land use and density and get approvals for things in the city? So, that's a critical component of our program and definitely something I've got a lot of lived experience with. And I also am a Columbia graduate. I got my architecture training in the Masters of Architecture program. Great. Thank you. Well, Jessica stopped in King. Many of you have already met and discussed or emailed and so on. She is our Senior Associate Director for Academic Affairs and really keeps track of your progress in terms of your course credits, graduation, the electives and so on. She's been with the program about 16 years now and 20. Wonderful. And so, Jessica, a few words, please. Yeah. Oh, hi. It's so nice to meet all of you. I know lots of you have talked to Thelma too. It's a big decision. This is a very short period of time. It can be the start of conversation. I know you have until April 15th. Some of you are going to Professor Adler's talk this afternoon. If you want to visit another class this week or the next couple of weeks, please message me and I'll let you know the options if you give me your schedule. I know for other folks you're not in the New York City area and that's great too. So, yeah, definitely follow up with us. It's so nice to see you all. But, Trace, would it be okay if we introduced the three students who are here too? I feel like we could do a bigger careers portion because some of the people are attending both days later on but it'd be great to just introduce those three if that's okay. Right. Okay. And then we come back to Rebecca. Yes. Good. Okay. Well, would you do that, please? Thanks. Absolutely. Davis, do you want to start and then pass it off? Is that okay? Yeah, for sure. So, can everyone hear me? Yeah. All right. So, I'm Davis Mullins. I'm the class president currently. I come from a construction background. I was born and raised in Tampa and I worked for about three years in general contracting and decided I wanted to become a developer. So, came to this program. I really loved it. I honestly met way more people than I thought I would end up wanting to be friends with for the rest of my life here and honestly didn't think I was going to love the finance portion of real estate development as much as I have but, you know, Professor Darrington and Professor Munsell and so our other professors really come to enjoy it. I really think you guys are one really proud of you for getting in. I know it's a huge step and it's a big stage in your life. I think you're not going to regret coming. You're going to meet a lot of amazing people and learn a lot of amazing things. So, really encourage you guys all to come and attend and I don't think you'll regret it for a second. Anika or Annie, I don't know who wants to speak next. Anika? Sure, sure. Hi, everyone. My name is Anika Zapatsaris. I'm on the student council along with Davis. I'm the secretary. I'm a dual degree here at GSAP. I'm the master of architecture and MS-RED programs. My classmates and I, like Davis said, can congratulate you on your admin program and we hope to give you a few insights on what GSAP has for you here as an MS-RED student. I completed my undergrad here at Columbia with a bachelor of arts in architecture in 10 days after commencement. I was right back on campus to start the summer semester of the MS-RED program. So that really says I love Columbia. I immediately became involved, like I said, in student council. Part of the Women in Real Estate Development Club take part in the MS-RED mentorship program and I also support the program in various events and outreach initiatives. As a dual degree student, I also want to emphasize the interconnectivity of thought and experience here in the program. As Patrice mentioned, real estate is a very creative and responsible act and the way in which buildings are managed and strategically owned is really dictated by the creativity behind those ideas. So being under this umbrella of Columbia GSAP is a huge benefit in developing this interdisciplinary means of understanding real estate. I've had the pleasure of getting to speak to a few of you already and I'm so glad that I'm a dual degree candidate and will be sticking around for a little bit longer and even more of you. And I look forward to kind of introducing you to campus and wish you a wonderful introduction to the program in Columbia and end. Thank you, Annie. Hi, I'm Annie. I studied architecture at Cooper Union and was practicing for over 16 years. So this is a later change for me and you can always like ask me questions about that. I also am somebody who has a family and has come back to school. So I've got three kids. So you can ask me questions about that. I think this program is amazing because the professors really come from places of a lot of experience all throughout the city. They have great perspectives and you really get to tap into to their experience. They've all been very open and share their experience as they teach new year classes and they've always found them available to talk after class and really have been really helpful. So thank you. Good luck. That's great. And then one thing, we our students get involved in a lot of projects within the classroom but also compete in a lot of industry-wide projects and we're very honored this year to have a team led by class president Davis Mullins in the finals of the case MIT case competition which is the international real estate competition that's where we compete even against business schools. So you know this is a major accomplishment for us and we're very proud of our team. Patrice, could I just make one comment to the students, Kate? Yes. I just wanted to just say one word just as follow-up to what Professor Darrington said about the program. There's probably two things that make it an additionally super unique against other programs you might be looking at. One is of course and she's emphasized New York City which we can't say enough about in terms of as a place for real estate and business. And aside from the fact that you may find your life partner here like Chris did and you may get a job at Columbia like Chris and Cecily did which are you know not guaranteed at all. The other thing that all the students that we've had over the last decade have said is that one of the best things about the program is the the the coterie of people who they then are able to stay in touch with for the rest of their career. So aside from just getting a job when you get out actually people who can help you in your career it's an incredibly strong network and I've seen it over 10 years now of folks all over the world and it's very hard to imagine getting that in a smaller program or a less diverse program. So you know Chris and Cecily can speak to it more but it's a very powerful thing to think about so I just wanted to make that little advertising comment. I'll stop now. Okay yes and you know Davis was saying how you know many people he's met and people that he would never have known in other forums and so on. So you know a wonderful opportunity to broaden many of our students and graduates say they learned so much just from their classmates in addition to what they learned in the classroom. You know they come from a wide variety of experience and backgrounds. So very good so Jessica we'll move on to the careers and and so on and I'd like to introduce our Associate Director for Career Advisory Rebecca Palomita. Hi everyone how are you? I'm Rebecca Palomita I've been with the MS Red Program for seven years now prior to that I was at the NYU program so if you have any questions to compare the different programs I have no problem answering that. So I've been literally I've been working like as Kate said for the last 10 years on actually 11 years on real estate focused career development so I will be working with all of you individually with career counseling sessions. We offer the Spring Career Fair as Professor Darrington mentioned, career focus lectures, we have a mentorship program, spring internship program in the last semester, we have a wonderful job board, we have amazing events with alumni, our conference, there's a plethora of networking opportunities. I will say that we have a very high success rate as far as students and their careers after the program. We are not a placement firm we are not a recruiting agency but we definitely help guide your professional introductory while you're here and you know over 90% of our students within the first you know three to six months from graduation have a role there's obviously a percentage of the program where we don't know they go back to their countries or respective family businesses but we definitely follow you on an individual level in this program as far as your career so I look at each and every one of you differently. I don't group you all together but I really try to find out what you're interested in whether it's design, development, finance and I'll really you know delve into to each of the the asset classes with you to figure out where you guys want to go so I'm here if you have any questions feel free to email me I think Jessica's going to send information on I think some of you have already reached out to me so if you have any questions just feel free to email me now and I'll be here so if you have any questions please just ask away and this is actually a great time for it just because I would guess a lot of you probably have similar questions yes I will say just to say too like as far as the hiring goes yes obviously New York City you know the the heart of the heart of real estate students obviously want to work in New York City but we have students who get jobs all over the country and all over the world so don't feel as though you know you feel like the pressure to be in New York some students do feel that way but we have jobs and connections all over the world so if you're open to other geographical areas after the program I absolutely love that please feel free to reach out with questions Jessica has managed these admissions processes for a you know quite a while now so she's she knows all of the twists and turns so feel free to get some clarity should you have any questions okay we look forward to seeing you this summer and thanks very much for tuning in