It’s time for another installment of our exam season photo essays. The amount of paper crammed into a single desk never ceases to amaze:
- Photos by Ron Gejman, MMT, and HSG
Tags: butler, dark night of the soul, finals, reading week, time the subtle thief of youth
19 December 2009 @ 7:16 PM · 58 comments
I lost some matte green Ray-Ban sunglasses during the last night of Senior Week revelry outside EC. If anyone finds them, take pity because they were the only thing that fools people into thinking that I’m cool. One delicious burrito dinner reward for their safe return. Email sar2160@columbia.edu if you know anything.
Name: Emily Selinger, lost 5/10 somewhere at Senior Ball, gaslight, or 1020. ess2168@columbia.edu
Found in one of the couches in the Wallach Sky Lounge. Returned to Hartley Hospitality Desk.
Dark blue-green plaid Old Navy jacket and green scarf. Misplaced in EC on April 30. If found, please email abc2160@columbia.edu. Thank you!
PointMobl Black Retractable Micro USB AC Phone Charger. Lost it in Hartley lounge. E-mail: nnamdi.nwaezeapu@gmail.com
Lost a Black High Sierra backpack containing a white binder and a red pencil bag in Ferris Booth Dining Hall on Wednesday, April 25th, around 7:30 to 8pm. It was left on a chair in the second floor in a table around the middle of the room close to the staircase. If spotted someone taking it or found, please call immediately at 208-964-6780 or email rm2999@columbia.edu
Light blue, hardcover. Beginning Level. Lost last Tuesday in the Barnard 2nd floor women’s bathroom.
If found, please contact jac2295@columbia.edu
Lost a Blackberry Bold from Verizon Wireless at ADP on Saturday night. If found please email rsf2121@columbia.edu or call 601-994-3697. There will be a $$ reward!!
These were lost potentially on philosophy lawn on the evening of April 17th. The earrings are large silver flower cutouts and the mood ring is a blue band with small flowers inset. Both are old with a lot of sentimental value attached. Would greatly appreciate their return if found. Please contact on2139@columbia.edu/
646-496-3613, will reward with home baked goods and eternal gratitude.
Droid II Phone without any particular markings. Possibly left at the street fair or in Math. Contact cw2453.
“I NEED A CHRISTMAS TREE IN BUTLER SO I CAN WRITE MY CRAAAAAZZZZYYY INTENSSSEEEE CC PAPER!!!”
seriously, CC is not that bad. fail.
the non CC stack of books is for US Intellecual History. 8-10 page paper plus 12 page take home final. I’ve been in the stacks for the past 6 days doing it and my desk looked exactly like that. Believe me, that little tree is warranted.
i fucking hate these kind of people that feel the need to show everyone that they are “studying” soooooo much.
It’s the academic equivalent of peeing on the hydrant to mark your territory.
seriously- if you feel the absolute need to have a christmas tree with you and all that other shit while you’re studying WHY would you go to Butler instead of staying in your room to study… because you consider butler to be a social scene where you can show off your studiousness. FAIL.
agreed
yeah, fuck them
Ben Cotton, Spec EIC!
BEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sex
true.
<3Ben!
needs to chill the fuck out…studying for 48 hours straight does no good…sleep, eat, take a break…enjoy life and don’t make yourselves miserable
word.. sometimes i just try to imagine as if i’m one of those guys you might read about in a newspaper from like 70 years ago and are like “who is that guy? never ended up hearing of him! must not have mattered, really!” sounds depressing, but really isn’t, in fact makes me chill ’cause here’s the point: there’s nothing really different about living now or then and lot’s of people didn’t “change the world” or get the best grades; what they might have done, though, is this: been good to themselves, their family, their friends. and in that way they DID change the world, and in a positive way, too
yale, harvard, dartmouth, and princeton ALL finished last week!!! come onnn columbia why are you doing this silly labor day crap to us???
Princeton still has to take their finals after they come back from break. Having finals looming over your head as you’re recovering from new year’s? fuck that. our way is better, despite this getting home practically on Christmas Eve bullshit.
Much as I hate to admit it, I’d rather have it this way. Imagine what kind of final papers professors would assign if they knew we had a month to do them….
if they actually retain what they learn in classes better because they can’t completely forgot it all over winter break and are forced to do some extra review
*forget
Yale begins their semester BEFORE Labor Day. Every year.
Someone else working on this god awful U.S. Intellectual History Paper! Trust me kids, he needs that christmas tree.
agree. That person totally needs that tree. A combination of CC and US Intellectual History is not enviable. Holiday joy must seem so far away…
Looking at those CC books on the desk makes me want to take a double-tapered shit right on Hobbes. Fuck CC.
loled
if you’re going to rant and rave, make sure you have your facts straight. Harvard is not done with exams.
john taylor’s classical mechanics book!
someone taking Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. come on, did you really need to Butler-down for that class?
the final paper for that class was due on like, 9 days ago….
response to indian t buddhism comment: cant ppl use butler as they wish?
makes me want to vomit.
seriously, Columbia students who bitch and whine incessantly about how much work they have and how stressed they are have no sense of perspective. you’re not working the 10pm-4am shift at *insert favorite campus eatery here* to accommodate your “STRESSSSSS”, are you? also, note: our friends at liberal arts colleges have about twice the amount of work we do here. the sad truth.
you live a fucking privileged existence and this is the pinnacle of it. yeah, you’re a fucking scholar. woopdy-fucking-doo.
buckle down, get your shit done, and shut the fuck up.
this sort of self-righteous “i’m surrounded by a bunch of privileged assholes who whine about nothing, while here i am with a real job still getting my work done” rant has been done before. we get it. you hate being surrounded by liberal kids who go to an elite school. Are you a dirt-poor republican who works the graveyard shift at pinnacle? You’re at Columbia. There are 19 year old kids running around who are excited about school, and it consumes their lives. that is okay. get over yourself, and if you don’t want to be around liberal people who take their studies seriously, get the hell out.
put
non-sequitar much? Associating dirt poor with Republican is just plain stupid (not that dirt poor goes well with Democrat either). Basically its a stupid generalization. Bottom line is there’s plenty of people who take school seriously,I count myself among them, probably more than most other schools, but political ideology has ZERO relation. The thing is too many people here care way too much about looking studious, while actually being studious doesn’t require all the bullshit that finals season reliably brings every year. It’s all an image thing.
or it’s a personal comfort thing. some people like studying/at least pretending to freak out with other columbia students because it gives them an at least superficial sense of community.
and the point about republicans he/she was making was supposed to be the opposite of the “whiny liberal” caricature
Just admit that you’re aroused by the schadenfreude/feelings of superiority and stop being coy
firstly, none of the above are scholars, they are college students. And yes, while a number of years ago grade inflation was so bad at Columbia there was actually a policy instituted that showed the average grade in a given class (if everyone got an a, we could guess it was nt such a legit a), Columbia College student do work hard and at least as much or more than most liberal arts colleges, save for places like St. Johns, the one in MD and New Mexico both based on the great books program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_College_(United_States)
Should also add that my friends at U Chicago, I think they work harder than at Columbia. Its very boring at U of C, and the infrastructure sucks there
$$$$$timbo$$$$$
could use a tiny potted tree on your desk and the subsequent cheer that such miniature version of things have been known to bring
is the snowball fight tonight or tomorrow night?
most definitely tomorrow night. if you went outside right now you can’t see far enough through the blowing snow to have a snowball fight
you just missed that.
i’m not in butler right now.
that
To the girl with the note…
The paper was flipped over at about 7pm today. Clearly that note was written on Thursday night, and no one had returned by 6pm on Saturday.
So if your shit is at security…too bad?
are you high?
Dear bwog, I think the potted tree would be more appropriate in black and white.
seconded
never seen a more attractive photo of Ben Cotton.
Butler is absolutely disgusting at this point in the term. Avoid it like the plague and study in your room, or in Avery.
Just be Friends? We’ve all got a lot of work to do, and when we’re done, we can all look forward to some time off. Peace happiness and love Happy Holidays to all
the first two pictures = Blake and Blaer.. two great professors, the only redeeming quality of this wretched semester
My friend accidentally left her ring on the counter in the 3rd floor women’s bathroom in Butler around 2pm on Sunday. She went back for it about 20 minutes later and it was not longer there.
It’s silver and white gold (in a braided coil style pattern). It has a lot of sentimental value (it’s her engagement ring). If it’s found, please email her lm2338@barnard.edu or call 914-434-1550.
@barnard………………………..
haha, i just removed this girl’s stuff from the reference room, and when she came back three hours later, tried to kick me, to which i grunted, go f yourself
There is this guy in butler who is literally walking around the 3rd floor in his socks, I mean, sure, it maybe somewhat doable to take off ones shoes when one is sitting down, but prancing around all over the 3rd floor???!!!! (we need bored at butler for the airing of such concerns )
Its this group of gs, or grad students, a certain look about them, slender, but foreign, but of course not too eastern, just a tad…but their entire character makeup is part of a type, havent spied them enough to exactly pigeonhole them, which wont be hard to do, but the two men love to walk around butler in their socks, unless they are on an outing for something such as the primal scream. Please see a very soon to be added post on the phoniness of the primal scream and why those who engage in it are totally inauthentic and should quit school immediately
Ah… playing the “Vague Aspersion” card in the latest round of the old “Not the College, not Columbia” game, I see: “a certain look about them,” “their entire character makeup is part of a type”: certainly, these must be some of those creepy GS or GSAS people we hear about. Thanks for your diligence, comrade!
Did you check for big noses? Because you can be sure that they must have been GS/JTS! Zionists in stocking feet! Oh noes!
He brought a potted plant, when the invite clearly said a _pot_ plant. He blew it.