Smoking kills. Just say no. Blah blah blah. We’ve all heard it before, and yet, the promise of a cig break and the potential love-at-first-sight meeting with another smoker scream too hard. Until you’re addicted. Here’s a post for all the Barnard students smoking outside the chastity gates, the frosh socializing outside Carman, and the […]

Romantic hope among optimistic young urban professionals/students is omnipresent. Last year Tinder, the year before OkCupid, before that Match.com, SeekingArrangments, ChristianMingle… Today apps like Bumble, Happn, and The League have hit the scene, promising love, but you STILL haven’t found The One. Have no fear! Bwog is here. You don’t need to be single this […]

Tulane Chair of French Studies Vaheed Ramazani presented his paper, “Irony and Fetish in Madame Bovary,” last evening at La Maison Française. Bwog sent new inductee Romane Thomas to report on the event, and she came back a little changed. In a tiny room on the French House’s second floor (or, la maison for the […]

Moses parted the Red Sea, and America can “turn off” (redirect) Niagara Falls…in order to repair two pedestrian bridges, to ensure tourist safety. Hurrah! (NY Times) Enfant terrible Donald Trump boycotted last night’s Republican Debate, but that didn’t stop candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz from verbally jousting over immigration. (NY Times) Zika virus infections […]

One of the scariest things to think about in the weeks after school starts back up is the prospect of building an entirely new schedule based around classes that you may or may not have drunkenly added to your program sometime around November. Unfortunately, even scarier things can happen AFTER you’ve registered for a class. […]

It’s a well-known fact that Bwog and the Columbia Daily Spectator have complex feelings for each other. In an effort to understand  what all the fuss is about, a Staff Writer sacrificed part of his Sunday afternoon to attend Spectator’s Business and Innovations Open House. If you’re thinking about joining the self-purported “largest student business […]

What are your RAs doing when they’re not CAVA-ing that one girl down the hall or yelling at Carman 13 to stop leaving hair in the showers? Bwogger Nadra takes you into the mind of a second-semester RA, desperate to cultivate some community on their frigid floor. You spend a good chunk of your winter […]

Intrepid Bwogger Ross Chapman ventured to writer Mary Roach’s lecture at CU for a night of debauchery, drinking, and dirty secrets about the Department of Defense. Read on for the less-dramatized details. “Turns out, diarrhea can be a threat to national security.” Dodge 501 was filled to the brim with (mostly wine-drinking) students last night […]

Do you dream in dollar signs? Does your Tinder bio include the phrases “entrepreneurial endeavors” or “hedge fund”? If so (or even if not and you just have an interest in the business world), apply now to the CC/SEAS residential program Res. Inc. Called a “living and learning community,” Res. Inc. Res. Inc. “establishes an […]

In “thank goodness for science” news, researchers made the recent  discovery that certain genes are linked to the tendency towards developing schizophrenia–this could lead to new therapeutic techniques in the near future! Love you, science! (Broad Institute) While scientists make incredible discoveries, Brooklynites attempt to rent out snow-huts on Airbnb… It’d probably be cheaper than […]

On Monday, January 25, Anushua (Shua) Bhattacharya published an op-ed in the Spectator about her experience with sorority recruitment and sorority culture on campus. Over the past few days, other women who are in sororities or have resigned from sororities on campus have reached out with their perspectives in response to Shua’s op-ed. In this […]

Spring semester is typically full of lethargic students desperately in need of a sun lamp and an advisor to help them make a commitment to their major. To help you determine your destiny at Columbia, we put together a list of our recommendations for majors that are the “easiest” in terms of fulfilling credit requirements. […]

GSSC got interactive at their last assembly, and Bureau Chief/Wednesday Wastrel Joe Milholland was on hand to witness the outpouring of ideas. Directories only slightly less creepy than directory.columbia.edu, visiting Buddhist monks, and “GS Singles Mingle” (perhaps the most highly anticipated social event of the semester, as of now) await! A searchable directory of student […]

Give the Action Line at Ferris a break and feed both your body and soul (too cheesy?) with some live music today. Live At Lerner presents Lauv, a pop/R&B/indie artist who will perform songs from his new album “Lost in the Light.” It’ll be today (!), in the Piano Lounge of Lerner from 1 to 2 […]

Light a candle in your dorm tonight, because Rostam Batmanglij has left Vampire Weekend, leaving the band gutted, and perhaps artistically (un)dead. Every Columbian mourns tonight, reminded of the ephemeral nature of this material world. (Pitchfork) Maybe more bands don’t come out of Columbia because, as this noise map of the city shows, we are a staid […]