Which shade of Columbia blue though?

Now that spring break is over and we’re staring down the last month and a half of the year, the entire student body seems jaded and ready to leave this campus for good.  We at Bwog decided to take this time to look back at the most memorable first reactions we’ve witnessed to Columbia and all it’s…quirks. If you have any first reactions to Columbia you want to reminisce about, share them in the comments!

• My high school ex-boyfriend lives a block away (literally 116 and Morningside). We would walk through campus in like 10th grade and one time I pointed out that the penis fountains look like penises and he claimed I ruined his childhood.
• When I moved into Carman freshman year, my suitemate’s mom took one look at the empty/undecorated rooms and said “Well, have fun in your prison cells!”
• I had some friends visit me at Columbia for spring break and we had to go into Lerner. The moment they say the ramps, they immediately said: “This is disgusting. I hate this.” and “The tables are slanted; how do you get any work done?” They wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible and I don’t blame them.
• Seeing the starving lion statue: “You can put something in his mouth. We should put something in his mouth”.
• A friend after I showed him around Columbia’s campus the first time: “Why is Columbia so obsessed with columns?”  (After I showed him all the names carved on Butler, and he understood.)
• My dad was born in Harlem in the 50s and when he moved me in, we took a walk around campus. He said that everything was “a lot nicer here” than when he was a kid.
• The buildings at Columbia have copper rooftops and because of rust they’ve become a green-blue shade. During NSOP, my friend remarked that in a certain light, the rooftops look like they’re Columbia blue.

Not just Pantone 292 via Bwog Archives