There are NO FUCKING SEATS IN BUTLER. Stay in bed. Don’t come here.
We should mention that there are other libraries, they just don’t stay open at night when you need to them to be.
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Dec 05, 2010 
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There are NO FUCKING SEATS IN BUTLER. Stay in bed. Don’t come here.
We should mention that there are other libraries, they just don’t stay open at night when you need to them to be.
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68 Comments
@Anonymous Barnard is Columbia’s malignant cyst. PrezBo must remove it. Before it metastasizes.
@Me Terrace’s monkey pecking at an Apple ][e competing with the pigeons and rabbits.
@Anonymous Ragey Bwog comments during finals: the best tradition!
When senior wisdom rolls around, someone should graph comment numbers/viciousness vs. time. Whatever poor soul gets the first exam day is always ripped to shreds.
@Okay. Am I the only one who is NOT cynical enough to believe that every single student who goes to Butler and/or updates a social network saying so is doing it solely to “look studious?”
I feel like half of the people who keep bringing that up either have a terrible image of those around them, or simply partake in the moral sin themselves. I go to Butler because it works for me. I’m sure all of the other students who made into one of our country’s top institutions go to it for the exact same reason. No one got into this school by pretending to study.
Stop giving a fuck about what other students are doing with their lives and focus on yourself.
I don’t mind debate on which library feels best for studying/has the most space, but god damn cynics piss me off.
@who goes to butler to be seen studying? this sounds completely preposterous and impossible and inexplicable to me.
@Anonymous Butler is a shit hole. It literally smells like shit because people don’t leave and take showers. I’m not even sure they leave to go to the bathroom, which would also explain the shit smells.
Study in your room. There’s a desk there for a reason. The only reason people go to Butler is to be seen studying. If you must go to a library, hit Lehman. Then when it closes, go back to your room. This is not difficult.
@Anonymous I’m CC and I go to Barnard library almost exclusively during finals. I’ve never had a problem finding a seat, and the first floor is 24hrs during finals.
@Little solace comes to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as books keep shifting
and this great blue school of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.
@Well, 201 is mostly free…
@wut wut in the But
@anonymous there’s a seat near me at the back of 209 by the printers. if anyone wants it.
@THIS PICTURE! Poor monkey. His day is worse than any of ours.
@Oh for fuck's sake I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the thing is dead, lipsticked, and chemically buried by now.
MY essay however is alive and well. Focus, will you.
This ain’t fucking PETA.
@a take a study break, pal
@Hooah “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” -Yogi Berra
@problem solved if we ban Barnard students from Butler during finals. I dont think people would care/mind
@of course this turns into a Barnard vs. Columbia thing. It’s finals. It’s always like this. It would be like this if Barnard didn’t exist. People need a place to study – the library, any of them on campus, don’t have the capacity for everyone who wants a seat. There are free public libraries, lot’s of cafes outside of Morningside Heights and plenty of other places. But Butler is convenient so people go there. Whether you like it or not, complaining doesn’t really solve anything. Either go really early, camp out, or find somewhere else to study. End rant, begin paper.
@Anonymous I think it is fairly obvious that Barnard students are more likely to come to Butler than College/SEAS students are likely to goto whatever libraries Barnard has. So long as there are too few seats, I think it is completely reasonable that the libraries are restricted to affiliations depends on whose library it is. Does my tuition pay for Barnard libraries? no. So should I be able to use it, no. Do I want to use it? hell no, who wants to be surrounded by…
@That's cause there aren’t that many seats in Barnard Library—it’s pretty small in terms of study space. And it wouldn’t make sense for someone who lives in Wein or EC to trek all the way there. Just because you can’t focus because there is an attractive girl at the table next to you is your own damn fault.
@Yes, but my tuition DOES pay for Butler.
@but I don’t think that Barnard has libraries, so you can’t kick them out of Butler (and other Columbia libraries) so they’d have nowhere else to go.
@Anonymous the streets? duh
@Anonymous If Barnard doesn’t have a library, then what’s that thing between Barnard Hall and Altschul?
@... Or you can just find somewhere else to study.
Really, it is not that hard to figure out. Rather than people complaining about the problem and wasting more valuable study time, they should shut the fuck up and solve it themselves…
You’re in college. Be a big kid!
@Anonymous Ok. You stop going to Hewitt and the Diana, I’ll stop going to Butler. Done deal.
@Anonymous Sounds good to me! No college kids have dining plans after their freshman year anyway, so fuck if I care that I can’t eat at some cafeteria that is a long walk away. What does affect me is when ya’ll come to Butler.
@Anonymous Throw in no more using Dodge either and you’ve got yourself a deal :)
@Okay. I swear half of you “Columbia vs. Barnard” students are either on the debate team, trolls, or you’re fucking children.
God damn, my university pride drops tremendously whenever I read some of these Bwog comments…
@Anonymous ALL YOU FUCKERS WHO CRITICIZE BUTLER:
Going to Butler is clearly the preference of students. The quality of Butler creates a demand that is higher than supply, and apparently this is not true for other libraries. Have fun in your inferior libraries.
The exception to this, is if you believe that those who choose to goto butler are acting irrationally. If we are acting irrationally, then how to you think you are going to convince us that we are wrong using rational arguments?
So either we are rational and making a decision that is corroborated by several thousand other Butler-goers and would-be-but-couldn’t-find-a-seat-people, or we are irrational and you can STFU.
@Anonymous looks like someone’s been studying for the Principles of Econ final
@econ? the “preference” of students? shouldn’t that be “preferences”?? that pluralization would negate your argument
@Anonymous nah i’m just tired of people criticizing other’s for their preferences as if they didn’t have a reason for their preferences in the first place.
I think that most of the frustration comes from the fact that some people goto butler almost every day of the week, and it sucks when you go at your regular time and every seat is filled with some bro surfing facebook. They have a right to be there, whatever, but I have a right to get pissed off that they exist.
@Anonymous also fuck grammar and spelling. :)
@does anybody study in their room?
@i do always did. often i don’t even go to the desk. you crack open the books right on my bed. it is awesome. not sure why others haven’t discovered this.
@hehe I love studying in my room. The sad thing is, if I try to study on my comfy bed…once I lay on the bed, I fall dead asleep. Lol
@or I start JO’ing. Its too hard to watch porn in Butler. That’s why I go.
@yeah I either fall asleep or get up and go to my desk…and then end up on Bwog :(
@Anonymous only the people who don’t feel the need to be seen by others studying and/or make “omg, i’m in Butler, look how studious i am” facebook statuses.
@Anonymous if you have a room mate then it often doesn’t work out. It is too easy to get into a distracting conversation or someone wants to start playing music
@Anonymous I often find studying in my room to be too distracting.
Example: when I study in Butler, I judge other people when they go on Facebook. This keeps me off of Facebook, because I think other people will judge me too.
@butler is the hub of campus studying. there is no arguing this. why would u go anywehre else? EVERY1 is here.
@ummm the fact that “EVERY1” is there is exactly the problem.
@Butler Its the place to be.
@The reason everyone goes to Butler is in order to study, they need people to watch/judge if they procrastinate. It’s like panopticism—everyone watches everyone else.
@Anonymous exactly. I need social pressure.
@Anonymous we need a marauder’s map
@Anonymous or a room of requirement
@there are literally 0 seats in Butler right now. Do not try to come. every1 that has already staked a claim will be camping for the remainder of the day and likely well into the night. I am dead serious.
@coughcough So…. when do you think people will leave Butler for the morning… just wondering.
but seriously, will people still be there, say, 4-5am?
@Anonymous even during finals, more people are leaving than coming starting around midnight. By 1am you will certainly find a seat somewhere.
@i don't understand why does everyone feel the need to go to butler?? there are so many other places to study on campus, like avery or the library in SIPA or the law school library, or the east asian library in kent… butler is ALWAYS packed, it seems like people go there to be seen studying rather than to actually study, no?
@Anonymous I did a a tour of the libraries yesterday (Saturday!) evening. There were no more than one or two seats in avery, east asian, or law. Almost always room in sipa, but lacking in the atmosphere.
@Anonymous I’m in the Dodge Arts and Music Library right now and it’s really empty and there are tons of alcoves… I don’t understand people who only go to Butler.
@bc all of those fucking libraries close at like 10pm and then you idiots trott over here only to realize you cant find a god damn spot. losers.
@Anonymous math library is also quite free at the moment
@Anonymous math library is an ugly piece of shit
@holy shit just go to Lehman or some other library if you can’t find a seat in Butler. it’s not hard. or better yet, just go to Lehman directly. there’s always space there.
@lehman closes you fucking idiot. every1 at this school starts studying late and studies well into the night.
@I Lehman closes at 4 am today
@4am? ha man this school just gets started at 4am, its nyc baby
@holy shit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/hours/index.html?library=lehmanst
happy?
@Anonymous yes, bwog. where should i go to study?
@Carolyn Back in the day, Bwog hopped other libraries: http://bwog.com/tag/library-hopping/
There’s a whole world outside Butler! Best of luck, friend.
@GRRRRR I spend more time looking for a seat in Butler than ACTUALLY STUDYING. Dear Bwog, help us studious Columbians in our quest for collegiate-looking study spaces. Make us a map!
@Harmony Hunter I’ve heard it said there are seats in Harmony.
@Anonymous but where is harmony (I never really got to find it)?
@WHAT. THE. FUCK.