And now for Bwog’s latest effort to be just like The New Yorker: our first caption contest! Because we want more than your excited, outraged, or bored post comments. We want the raw expressions of your psyche, in one line or less.

You know the drill: examine, interpret, express. Comment with your most incisive, searing captions for any or all of the following pictures. Global fame, the eternal respect of your peers, and the conceit that you are the sharpest person at Columbia lay on the line.

Fire away!

For Bwog by Louise McCune

It takes boldness to be a Barnard woman. It takes fearlessness. It takes an unlimited data plan, and still having a Blackberry. Only the bold get coffee. Only the bold get knowledge.

Barnard women: if you can’t read the text below, text your boldest moment to 330c5890 or 330c5af by Thursday at 5 pm to win fame, fortune, and a $10 gift card to either Starbucks or Barnes and Noble: only the boldest of destinations.

I like my coffee like I like my women...bold

This makes no sense.

Tonight is the night is the night: the first snowfall of the year, minus Halloween’s premature snowmaggedon. Tonight’s weather report predicts sweet, soft, snowfall starting at midnight. So at least tomorrow’s hangover can be sledded away on fresh powder. It’ll relax everybody!

For the first intrepid snow-goer to snap a shot, Bwog promises icy, free beer, of a quantity and quality yet to be determined. Brave the cold and the dark: snow pictures taken in adversity are that much more epic. Send your snow pics, with location and time taken, via tips@bwog.com! Witty snow penis jokes are optional.

Joy unfettered via Wikimedia Commons

CSA wants to watch you Tweet

Attention Columbia detizens of the twittersphere (tweetcosystem?)! Columbia’s Center for Student Advising is currently holding a twitter contest in which students are challenged to summarize their life in six words or less. The winner of the contest, to be selected “randomly from the most creative entries” at noon tomorrow, will nab an iPod shuffle. Submissions so far range form vaguely inspirational banalities to overtly aggressive jabs at CSA. You check out a feed of all the tweets here. Here’s a list of our favorite entries so far:

• @TareqAbuissa Tareq Abuissa: Six classes. Two jobs. Halal everyday. 
• @KnittingSparrow Charline Tetiyevsky: Here’s my entry: Thanks for fucking up my schedule! 
• @BeanerFresh Ricky Coria: sleeping feels like i’m only napping
• @clyattriot Jasper L. Clyatt: Dang I want that iPod Shuffle
• @zhanghenglai Henry Zhang: Donating my first million to HamDel.
• @zelevine Zach Levine: i still, still haven’t seen “avatar”

tips@bwog.com“>It’s almost Halloween-long-weekend, and you know what that means. Dressing up as a Lit Hum character, throwing up on someone else’s costume, and Bwog’s annual costume contest! Send us pictures of your costume at tips@bwog.com and if you win, we’ll buy you some beer and candy. Plus, you’ll be famous forever.

Happy Halloween, friends! See last year’s winner at right for inspiration.

Hello there! Are you in a living situation that is in some way notable? Do you like diamonds and fame? Would you like to be featured on Bwog then email us in a year when you’re looking for a job to ask us to remove your last name? Well, perfect.

Bwog is looking for living situations we’re dubbing “Powersuites.” If you live with notable campus people, or you’re all involved in one organization, or you all eat scrambled eggs for dinner only on Wednesdays, or you are in a living situation that you think is worth us writing about, tell us.

Email us at tips@bwog.com with the details on your Powersuite and why you think your suite deserves a spot in Powersuite history.

Image via Wikimedia.

The complete numbers have just come in for the class of 2014 CCSC election, and it was a close one! So close, in fact, that second place finisher for President, Matthew Chou, contested the results. But before we get to the grounds of the appeal and the response of the Elections Board, here is the the complete list of winners and the vote tally:

President: Conan Cassidy

Vice President: Joanna Kelly

Representatives: Roko Rumora, Daphne Chen, Cristal James

/CCSC Election Board’s Response to Matthew Chou’s challenge

Finally, white smoke!  After much deliberation, Bwog’s Halloween Conclave has named Rick Betita and his “Clippy, the Paper Clip from Microsoft Word” costume the winner of Bwog’s Annual Halloween Costume Contest.  Rick will be getting a surprise candy bar some time in the next six months.  Happy Halloween, all.

Tonight and tomorrow night, many of you will be affixing costumes or cardboard or facepaint to yourselves, sacrificing sartorial control to the great Gods of Halloween.

So, Bwog’s announcing our third annual Halloween Costume Contest, in which you are invited to send us photographs of your chilling and charming outfit this evening. Favorites from last year included “an NYU student” and xkcd characters (at right).

Photographs will be posted, a winner will be selected, and a free king-sized candy bar of the winner’s choice will given to this person by Bwog.

Send entries to bwog@columbia.edu by midnight tomorrow.

Anyone sauntering into Levien yesterday afternoon to shoot some hoops got a little more than they bargained for: a gym full of high-tech paper airplanes.  Red Bull’s Paper Wings Contest gathered a crowd of 20 or so engineering-types who spent an hour and a half battling it out for a free trip to Salzburg, Austria (home of the Red Bull Headquarters, where they put the real lightning into the cans), and the chance to compete with other schools’ engineering-types in some sort of world finals. 

From what Bwog hears, Columbia’s resident paper airplane geniuses–Mikey Antonakakis, Austin Brauser and Menachem Kaiser–have a decent chance of hopping a larger plane and flying to the edelweiss capital of the world.  Columbia-Red Bull pontifex and CU Formula SAE associate Nicholas Chang promises to alert us as soon as he knows how Columbia’s scores match up to the 200-or-so other schools’.

The judges, a trio of slim, heavily made-up, imported Red Bull babes, judged our boys’ designs in three categories: total flight distance, amount of hang time, and “aerobatics,” or, fancy tricks.  Brauser’s spinning paper ring took the Columbia prize for aerobatics, and Antonakakis, decked out in a Formula One driver’s jumpsuit and helmet, swept up in both distance and hang time; one of his planes flew 110 feet, and another stayed in the air for a glorious 6.63 seconds.  Kaiser’s impromptu entries–he showed up for the basketball and stayed for the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat–came in close behind Antonakakis.  Check out some pictures after the jump! Read more…

Bwog knows that you are “writing” your 25 page papers and “studying” for your heap of exams, so we came up with a little procrastination contest (and you don’t even have to open any extra Firefox tabs).  Just search your professors on Facebook (yes, we know you have it open) and post your favorites on the thread, with reasons defending your choices.  Bwog has a few examples.

French Lecturer Vincent Aurora has activities such as “Gesticulating bombastically over a few too many drinks” and status messages like “Vincent has survived 13 consecutive days alone with his children–an unparalleled feat–with no fatalities.”

Logician Achille Varzi, because his profile picture is inexplicably upside-down and he is in a group called ‘metaphysicists’ not ‘metaphysicians’. Read more…

Weather.com is forecasting that the Columbia campus could see the season’s first snow showers early Tuesday morning.

According to their hour-by-hour forecast, snow showers could begin around 3 a.m. and continue into the early afternoon, becoming mixed with rain.

Now Bwog has been let down by snow forecasts many times over the years, so don’t bet the tuition money on this one just yet. But, because Bwog does love snow oh so very much, even the slimmest, tiniest prospect brings great excitement.

So why not mark the occasion with a contest?

Bwog wants to know who can spot the first flake of the semester. If you see snow, post where and when you saw the flurry in a comment. The sharp-eyed spotter gets good luck, at least according to some Appalachian folk traditions and this badly written Internet fiction.

Keep watching the skies!

Bwog received some rather impressive Costume Contest submissions, the but the unanimous forerunner thus far is from Ms. Caroline Corley, CC ’12, who dressed us as “an NYU student.”

Think your costume is better? Send in a picture today, during this Extended Contest Time, and prove it. In the meantime, check out two other noteworthy submissions after the jump.

Read more…

Tonight, many of you will be affixing costumes or cardboard or facepaint to yourselves, sacrificing sartorial control to the great Gods of Halloween.

So, Bwog’s announcing our annual Halloween Costume Contest, in which you are invited to send us photographs of your chilling and charming outfit this evening. For historical background, note that last year’s winner was an airplane (see right).

Photographs will be posted, a winner will be selected, and a free king-sized candy bar of the winner’s choice will given to this person by Bwog.

Send entries to bwog@columbia.edu by midnight tonight.

This is just one of the first in what Bwog assumes will be a veritable onslaught of Halloweenish events.  We’ll keep you posted.

Bacchanal is hosting an event on the steps today, some sort of crazy Halloween/study break mashup entitled “A Ghoulish Day on the Steps” today from 3:00PM – 7:00PM.

The free highlights include: tongue-scalding cider, critter-shaped cookies, pie of pumpkinal origin, and unspecified giveaways.

Two contests will also grace the steps this afternoon: a costume contest, and a pumpkin-carving contest.  Bring your (hopefully carved) pumpkin to the steps by 6:00 PM to enter the contest — $100 to the winner!