Yes Columbia Uni does/did have SWE chapter. If you can survive the engineering school there, you can survive just about anywhere.

Quote Originally Posted by indysteel
So, in some ways, it might be better if your daughter faces some of these challenges while still in school. Hopefully, it'll help her develop some constructive ways to deal with it or, perhaps, make her carefully evaluate whether it's something she really wants to do.
Indy's statement is a sage advice. You have to meet the eventual difficulties head on while still in college. Learn how to deal with it there instead of real life job. This will make it harder on while in college but it will prepare you for the eventual difficulties we all face in real life.

As JFK said, "...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills..."