Our last Senior Wisdom of the day is from Avinoam Stillman, who lives at the Bayit, is often mistaken for a GS or grad student, and has some thoughts on the Columbia bubble.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Avinoam Stillman, Columbia College, Religion, Brookline, MA Claim to fame: All sorts of Jewish things: second cousin once […]

EH hails from France, Boston, and a time when you could basically walk into Cannons. Name, School, Major, Hometown: EH, Dual BA Program between Columbia and Sciences Po, Economics and Political Science, Boston, MA Claim to fame: Getting nominated for Senior Wisdom having only spent two years at Columbia? Where are you going? Saving the […]

Disclaimer: The writer hasn’t actually tested any of her theories about Uris pool and only has a few shaky sources to confirm her theory. It’s finals season and sickness is bound to be spreading across campus like the plague, while our immune systems are at their weakest and we’re all crammed into the same libraries, breathing […]

  Here’s some wisdom from the CU Sad Girl, Lucy Jakub.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Lucy, Columbia College, Nonfiction, Blue Hill, ME Claim to fame: Co-founder of the Sad Girls Club, part-time frat anthropologist Where are you going? Back to the woods What are 3 things you learned at Columbia and would like to share with the […]

History is everywhere in Morningside Heights, if you choose to explore it. Today, Bwog writer Leo Bevilacqua shares his impressions of Grant’s Tomb, a national memorial dedicated to Union General and 18th President of the United States. EDIT, 6:20 PM: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that President Grant signed the 18th Amendment; […]

Not so fast, Michael Miller. History and MESAAS have the best courses of all time, according to Saaleh Baseer. Read on to find out why.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Saaleh Baseer, General Studies, History, Fremont, CA Claim to fame: You might me know as the guy who’s always talking about colonialism and/or Pre-Partition India, or shaking […]

Bwogline: Yesterday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art filed a proposal to charge admission for out-of-state visitors. But don’t worry, Barnumbia, you’ll be ok thanks to the Columbia Arts Initiative. (The New York Times) Study Tip: Have a final for a language class soon? Try listening to some pop music in that language – it’s fun […]