How we feel about finals

How we feel about finals

Not only is today the last day of classes, it also marks the last field notes post of the semester. Or maybe even the last field notes post ever? Who can say. We here at Bwog are ready for the world to spiral into the hot, fiery embrace of the inferno or cold, dark embrace of the void at any moment.

Some Say The World Will End In Fire:

  • Twerked in the stacks with a male ballerina from Botswana at 3 am on thursday
  • Went to a blind date of books (where mystery books in brown paper wrapping are sold with vague descriptions) at Housing Works, and told people which one was Knausgård’s book. The package I bought ended up being This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.
  • Messaged my SEAS friend the UNI of a CC person so she could receive a giveaway item, which she shamefully and discreetly shoved into her bag.
  • Learned about chia seeds
  • Started watching Call the Midwife.
  • Spent my last dollars on afternoon tea
  • Played table tennis (badly) at Hartley for an hour.
  • Went to dinosaurs among us at the Natural History Museum and was in a constant state of ecstasy the entire time
  • Wrote up a constitution for a new club! Exciting!
  • Convinced someone I was a Danish bartender when I am neither (ploy worked, number secured)
  • Bonded with my friend over how both of us are dating people who really like The Catcher in the Rye.
  • Left the city to visit my grandmother in CT and remembered how much of a bleeding heart liberal she is and how much I love her for it
  • Went to bed at 10 am on Friday morning, 4 am on Saturday morning, and 5 am on Sunday morning.
  • Saw an old man man spreading in the subway and angrily told him multiple times to close his legs until he did and sat next to him while listening to Lemonade
  • Found out who runs @BCMagnoliaTree and actually cried.

Some Say In Ice:

  • Had three sips of a frozen margarita at The Heights as my first drink ever
  • Carried a box of Oreos around in my purse, first at V-show, then to The Heights, then to Macbeth.
  • Carried 10L of Franzia in my backpack to the VShow. Later took it to The Heights, but with help.
  • Ate Levain cookies, Pressed Juicery freeze, and Jin Ramen all in the same day–felt like such a Columbia betch.
  • Gave a bouncer the wrong year of birth (forgot how to math/got flustered) when he questioned my fake. Immediately apologized and made flowery promises until he shrugged and let me in without confiscating it.
  • Went to Chowda Improv for a friend who’s crush is in the group, both of us regretted our decisions the entire time
  • Played in a Wind Ensemble concert on Havermeyer Plaza; originally it was supposed to be on Math Lawn but had gotten moved the day before, so the Board thought maintenance forgot our furniture request (for ~50 folding chairs) and spent two hours running around campus to every possible source for ~50 folding chairs we could think of until we discovered that they’d been on Havermeyer Plaza all along … hidden behind a bush.
  • Nearly froze my butt off at KCST Macbeth; still enjoyed it more than Veesh
  • Was stared at by a creep through the window of a Butler study room. He did not budge until my friend confronted him.
  • Looked at prices of West Village and Upper East Side apartments
  • Made a cameo appearance on WBAR and felt cooler than I have in a while
  • Roommate almost walked in on me having sex.
  • Submitted a key lime pie to a Double Exposure event, but I hadn’t refrigerated it long enough, so it ended up as custard
  • Law student invited me to his place at 1:30 and told me to wear something nice, I sent him a picture of a chastity belt.

The inferno via Dirk Beyer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0