37 CommentsThe day of reckoning has arrived, and Bwog will be stationed on a beanbag chair in John Jay, livebwogging your fate. Check back to this post throughout the day today, with frequent updates of what suites are still in your grasp.
11:04 AM:
Tensions are running high in the John Jay lounge this morning, and the Metallica (?) on the boombox isn’t helping matters, although the soda in the well-stocked refrigerator seems to be. “Hand me an iced tea,” a girl in a summery skirt demanded of her (almost) suite mate. “I need one.” Don’t we all?
(The number under the flash is a “2”.)
12:35 PM:
For some reason unbeknown to Bwog, housing is choosing to update the whiteboard in frustratingly infrequent intervals. (Ignore the 10:51 timestamp in the photo below).
12:41 PM:
Housing came over an annouced to Spec and Bwog (whom they referred to as “that Barnard paper”) that they’re doing a count right now and the board will be updating again in a few minutes. Stand by.
Now Playing: Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Proud Mary”
12:49 PM:
Suite selection comes to a momentary halt. A housing staffer walks over the the reporters lounge/soda bar in the corner to frown at a two-legged table. The third leg is about three feet away. “What happened to that table?” Bwog asked, guessing that some unlucky group destroyed the table in a fit of rage. “Oh, there are Legos in the legs. I guess someone wanted to build a monster.” And lo and behold, inside the legs of the table Legos. And beside the table, a monster.
Also, suite selection is on pause until 1:30 PM.
Now Playing: Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Susie-Q”
12:59 PM:
All the EC townhouses that face Morningside are gone. All the 6-person high-rises are gone. There are a few SIPA-facing townhouses left.
1:02 PM:
The board was just updated! As housing is on pause, this is the most current information:
1:25 PM:
Selection has yet to start back up again and ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is playing on repeat. “This is just what we need!” exclaims one housing employee who’s clearly tired of dealing with stressed out students. There’s a lot of sugar consumption in this room to keep spirits high. Bwog awaits the sugar come down.
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37 Comments
@update!!! hurry up and update!!!
@oh god oh god This is stressing me out.
@figgly figgly figgly figgle
@diggly diggly diggly diggle
@Anonymous nice job bowg, does anyone know how many suites of each type are usually taken during senior regroup?, Is there a lot of regrouping or do groups just find nice singles?
@just saw this gem on the housing bulletin board.
“If anybody is interested in swapping an EC 2-person flat for a Watt 2-bedroom suite, please send us an e-mail at columbia09.uzr@gishpuppy.com with your room number. The suite in question is Watt 1F. Thanks!”
@they could do some reporting and ask people who just finished up what the status is.
@People chill. Housing is not updating this white board very often. I was just there. It is really annoying because you don’t even know what is left until you go back into the picking pen area. There is no way bwog can update when they aren’t being given the info.
@seriously weak sauce, bwog, weak sauce.
@excuse me weak sauce? could you please elaborate? what is weak sauce? how does something go about becoming weak sauce? how do you justify calling something weak sauce to yourself?
@clearly anyone who actually says “weak sauce” has a very, very weak personality.
@rugg i thought one of the ruggles 8 person suites was being held out… guess not
@annoyed bwog,
instead of just repeating the housing billboard, cant you do some of your own reporting to give us information?
@hey bwog can you start posting these updates in separate posts? I love them but they’re too much to scroll through.
@cupcake thanks for the update
@annoyed ok as the responses are a lot quicker than bwog him/herself, can anyone tell me how many 5 person suites are left?
@oh yeah! nailed that 5 single ec high rise.
@doh these motherfuckers need to update that list
@wha? why are there so many ECX suites gone? Theoretically only 5 ECX groups have chosen.
Are the rest special interest housing? Are other 5 person groups choosing them?
@At a guess same suite rights?
@!!!!!!! 80 minutes since last update. Don’t promise when you won’t deliver BWOG…
@Well sucks for the first group of 6 who don’t get a suite.
@dear bwog another update please
@hah yea bwog you gotta update like every 15 min. :)
@annoyed bwog,
its been 1 hour. Whats going on? this is not meeting my needs…
@anon It’s unclear why they chose to list the 6 person 4 single/1 double configuration under ECX but as far as I know those are in the regular lottery, you didn’t need to check ECX or anything like that to get access to those suites, you only needed to have a group of 6.
@Question What is the 6Hdcl (????) 7 field underneath EC-X? Are there other kinds of EC-X suites other than the standard 5-person 3 singles and 1 double?
@Confirmed On Housing: Suite Selection
There are 12 1-bedroom watt doubles in suite selection. Somebody tell them to put them up there please!
@anon im posting this here, it’s already on the housing board, but if its true its a bunch of bullshit and someone’s going to get screwed cause of it:
“If the following *hypothetical* situation were actually true, would anyone question its justification??
A girl forgets to register by the deadline because she was planning to live off campus. This girl also wants to bring her dog to live in her dormroom next year. She gets a psychologist to sign a note that declares she is mentally unstable and needs this dog to live with her, and housing agrees to this exception. The day before suite selection she joins a 5-person group, which then becomes a 6-person group, and they are put into suite housing before the first senior 6-person groups even select.
So thereby breaking 3 rules: the dog in a no-dog dorm, changing group size WELL after the cut-off date, and selecting a suite before the selection process even begins.
I’m not suggesting any names, but IF this *hypothetical* situation were true, wouldn’t it undermine many of the principles of fairness, not to mention the entire lottery system, that the Columbia University undergrads have agreed to throughout this housing process. Some people I know have received terrible lottery numbers and are resigned to living in much less than ideal housing, while some privileged individuals manage to manipulate the system. Crying shame.”
@enough bs Dear #3,
Is this in fact a real story or are you just being a dick?
@enough bs Dear #3,
Is this in fact a real story or are you just being a dick?
@anon I saw the story on the housing board. I don’t know who posted it there, and whether it is true or not, but I can say that when I went in to pick my suite this AM fairly early there were only 5 6-person EC high rises left, and none of them had been selected by groups that were in the lottery. Now none of the EC 6 person all single high rises are RA suites, and there should be 7 of them, so that leaves 2 unaccounted for.
@come on oh come on, you dont think with all the privileged kids that go here w. connections, this doesn’t happen all the time? please.
@nope I know for a fact that one of the 6 person all single suites is being occupied by an RA. no conspiracy theory here cunt.
@anon Still leaves one unaccounted for.
#11 – yeah. obviously. Does that make it right? No.
@Watt 1-BR Aren’t Watt one-bedroom doubles in Suite Selection too? If not, why the hell not? My suite selection calculus were reliant on them existing!
@oh boy bring it on