Bwog is gardening this summer

Bwog is gardening this summer

As we say a heartfelt farewell to the days of June, Bwog would like to take a moment to reminisce about the weird, the wild, and the wonderful events of this past month.

In case you have not left the Netflix cave you created for yourself in May, here’s what you may have missed:

  • Columbia’s Board of Trustees announced that the school will divest from the private prison industry and will ban future investments in private prisons.
  • Barnard became the most recent women’s college to admit trans women after the Board of Trustees approved a new admission policy.
  • Vikas Arun (SEAS ’17) was on So You Think You Can Dance on Monday night as one of the top 36 stage dancers. (Facebook)
  • Three Columbia Lions were picked in the MLB draft, the most players ever selected from CU in a single year. (Spectator)
  • Song of Solomon will be one of the new additions to the 2015-2016 LitHum syllabus, marking the first time a living author will appear in the LitHum curriculum. Toni Morrison will also be the only author of color on the syllabus. (Columbia)
  • A Columbia alum released an app called SayWhat that brands itself as a video version of Urban Dictionary. Maybe you can finally explain to your mom what “on fleek” means.

In addition to this smorgasbord of June news, we also bring you news of your fellow Columbians’ summer endeavors. From the brilliant to the banal, we present to you…June Field Notes!

  • Learned how to do a dance from a sorority girl that incorporates the DG hand thing at a wedding.
  • I’ve been trying out new lunch places in Philadelphia within walking distance of my internship location.
  • Experimenting with reality TV in more ways than one.
  • Inebriatedly got a tattoo of a square/rectangle/parallelogram at the esteemed institution “whatever tattoos.”
  • Stuck in New Jersey. Send help.
  • Performed Uptown Funk with a jazz band and yelled “Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy” in a crowded club.
  • Sitting in a rented house trying to ignore the framed cat picture that’s staring at me.
  • Started working out everyday because I have no summer job. It’s kicking my ass.
  • Reading a bunch of classics this summer to get more intelligent / pretentious for my sophomore year at Columbia University in the City of New York.
  • Reading Infinite Jest. I think it should be required reading for every English speaker but I also kind of need a support group for Infinite Jest readers now.
  • I have been reading through a lot of yelp reviews for piercing places lately and it’s got me scared like nothing else

BONUS: Bwog’s Summer Pastry Picks. Because why not.