We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Sour Patch Kids, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation… and of course, we’re still handing out Housing stickers. Happy picking and best o’ luck, all!

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Pairing up... two is better than one seven

We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Krackels, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation… and of course, we’re still handing out Housing stickers. Happy picking and best o’ luck, all!

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Snoop. Things to expect out of the juniors and lucky sophomores today: the last 6-person suites are going to be gone in the morning, and the dregs of the former exclusions will go too. Look for Watt to be a battlefield today, and groups may start picking into the bigger rooms in Nussbaum and McBain.”>

Might have to drop to General; only a few ex-ECX left

We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Mr. Goodbars, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation… and of course, we’re still handing out Housing stickers. Happy picking and best o’ luck, all!

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HEY JUNIORS, come get these

We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Reese’s Minis, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation and/or our hopes for the Bacchanal lineup… and of course, we’re still handing out Housing stickers. Happy picking and best o’ luck, all!

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Feel free to comment on this post! We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Swedish Fish, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation and/or our hopes for the Bacchanal lineup. Oh, and in case you didn’t hear… We have stickers! Happy picking and best o’ luck, all!

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At last, the time has come. Welcome to the Housing 2011 liveblog, where Bwog blogs about housing live. We’ll be here all day every day for the entire selection process. We will update the chart at the top of the site as often as possible, post the official Housing whiteboard, and tell you about the triumphs and pitfalls happening in the cage, where your livelihood is made or broken.

Feel free to comment on this post! We’ll try to answer as many questions as possible, but we may not be able to tell what what your specific lottery number means at a certain moment. General debate, advice, and chatter about the housing process is highly encouraged. Plus, you can always stop by in person! We’ll be cheerfully chomping on Junior Mints, grooving with Housing staff, and neglecting our studies with abandon. Bwoggers will be more than willing to chat about the current situation and/or our hopes for the Bacchanal lineup. Best o’ luck, all!

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Don't have these kinds of nightmares!

Bye! Happy Spring Break! Hello free food from parents, daytime schwastedness with pals, or getting to sleep naked because your roommate’s away… Anyway there’s plenty of joy to be found in the week after midterms, EXCEPT THAT HOUSING STARTS WHEN WE GET BACK. Not to worry though, because Bwog will be here to hold your hand and listen to your anxieties.

By this we mean we’ll be covering housing as we always do. We’ve already told you everything you needed to know, but here’s a rundown of what to expect in the future. Be sure to keep checking back over spring break as we review every dorm for your the horror/delight/edification. Also take note of our snazzy new housing tab, where you’ll be able to find all the information you could ever desire. We’ll be posting information and advice both old and new so keep an eye out.

What lies ahead:

• Monday, March 21
: Lottery numbers are posted
• Friday, March 25: Suite Selection Appointment times are posted
• Tuesday, March 29 to Tuesday, April 5
: Suite Selection in John Jay Lounge—we’ll be live blogging all day, erryday!

Oh Housing LiveBlog, we hardly knew ye. If only there were a few more days worth of sophomores, a few of them would end up living in the basement of a frat, which would be funny. Instead on this final day we track the difficult decisions ahead for the dregs of 2012 – McBain or McBain?

12:45 PM: Our last board update. The fervor now dies, until Thursday, when general selection appointment times are online.

12:12 PM: EC is gone. There are only three Broadway doubles left. No one has stepped on the Pattie, yet it seems to be slowly deflating. This could be a great time-lapse photography project.

11:59 AM: Everyone seems (or is pretending to be) fairly light-hearted. “It could be much worse,” one rising sophomore tells another. Meanwhile, there’s been a York Peppermint Pattie on the ground in the waiting area for upwards of forty-five minutes. If it’s wrapped, does the five-minute rule apply?

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Welcome to Bwog’s 2009 Housing Live-blog! We’ll be updating this space with the latest numbers as they fall much too quickly for your liking.

 

 Board as of 12:20

12:25 PM: Lunchtime rush in the lounge accompanied by Rihanna’s “Disturbia”, gaggles of excitable upperclassmen huddled togetherlike middle schoolers. 5-person suites in EC are dunzo and there seems to be some Hogan-shifting action. There are 12 Watt 1 BR doubles left. Hogan 4-person suites are gone. Head of Housing Joyce Jackson altered us about the “ton” of Watt studio doubles: 51 left.

11:54 AM: Farewell, sweet EC 4-person suites. On a happier note, have you ever seen the inside of the big storage closet in John Jay Lounge? It’s stuffed full of York Peppermint Patties. What you do with this information is your own business.

11:48 AM: The white board isn’t being “updated” so much as “utterly and viciously ignored,” but all the Watt doubles are gone.

11:22 AM: The very gracious housing people are looking into listing Woodbridge by line. There’s an orange balloon stuck to the lounge ceiling. It’s eerily quiet.

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Hello! And welcome to Bwog’s exciting liveblog of the Vice Presidential Debate, brought to you by White House Bureau Chief James Downie and Bwog Editor Juli Weiner. Okay, let’s go.

9:05 PM: They’re both excited to be here. Palin wants us to ask ourselves if it’s a “good time or bad time” for the economy. Palin brings up John McCain’s warnings about Fannie and Freddie.

9:06 PM: Oh, god, Palin mentioned how McCain suspended his campaign and there were Partisan Laughs in the Piano Lounge, where your Bwog correspondents are stationed. 

9:07 PM: Biden reminds everyone that McCain said the “fundamentals” of the economy are strong, just two weeks ago he said this thing.

9:08 PM: Palin said McCain has a “team of mavericks.”

9:09 PM: Ifill says Palin “didn’t really answer that last question.” Huge Partisan Laughter.

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Bwog’s White House Bureau Chief James Downie live-blogs the presidential debate.

For those of you who want to watch the debate with your fellow Columbia students, the Dems, Repubs, and CPU are hosting a watch party in Tasti Lounge at 9 p.m.

10:37: The debate comes to an end. Overall, it’s probably a missed opportunity for McCain: the unique circumstances of this debate have made him only stay about even with Obama, and this was supposed to be his best chance to score a knockout blow. Also, it was a much smarter debate than in recent campaigns, with much of the night focused on policy, even if it wasn’t the current crisis.

10:35: McCain says Obama’s not ready for the presidency, also claims he’ll “love veterans and take care of them.” Obama closes by evoking his father’s admiration of America, and contrasting that with the current foreign views of America. He says “we need to send a message to the world” to change perceptions.

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Hey, welcome to this liveblog of Hillary Clinton speaking about pay equality at Barnard. Bwog’s thankful this thing is starting late, because we were a little late getting to the James Room in Barnard Hall, where about 60 students are now watching a livefeed of the podium at which Clinton will speak on a large (but not Obamacain large!) flat-screen TV.

2:16 PM: Still nothin’. Somone who was not Clinton stepped behind the podium to check the sound. It seemed to be working fine.  The podium has a sign that says “Fair Pay for Working Women.” We’re officially 15 minutes behind schedule.

2:25 PM: 25 minutes behind schedule.

2:33 PM: Oh, okay finally. Here we go. It’s D.Spar, talking about “how working women juggle their lives.”

2:35 PM: D.Spar mentioned Wellesley, and looked at Clinton, who is one lady to her right. Oh, topical: She just said what it means to be working and female in America is “not the stuff of Saturday Night Live skits.”

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We’ll start a second liveblog dedicated to the Summit itself, which is about to start. Join us! Or reminisce about all the fun times we had on the lawn, with our earlier liveblog.

7:04 PM: Everyone took their seats off the stage. Ushers are ushering people to chairs. If Bwog sees one empty chair…

7:06 PM: Ooh, we’re starting, we’re starting! Thank you to our sponsors, Target and Time magazine, and others!

7:07 PM: It’s Joseph Ienuso, who just asked one million people to turn off their cell phones.

7:08 PM: Bwog operative spots a sniper on the roof of Butler. Awesome.

7:09 PM: It’s someone from Target and someone from AARP talking about ServiceNation. Hm, it seems most of the sodas that were here earlier are gone.

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Check in as we bring you updates and photographs from the Steps, Lerner, and the Press Room.

5:24 PM: Sarah Besnoff, George Krebs, and Peter Valerias are talking to us about the community service fair that’s still happening but no one is going to forfeit their spots on the steps. 

5:27 PM: Someone is speaking very quickly and softly now, there is literally no way to tell who it is. It’s quite windy out. 

5:32 PM: The mic keeps going out but Bwog heard the phrases “commuity lunch” and “not to be too corny, but to quote Martin Luther King…”

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Most of the NSOP schedule leaves freshmen with two choices: go to the “required” event, or skip it. Tonight, though, newly-convocated Columbians have at least five choices for their entertainment. 

•  NSOP is asking you to join them at Victorian Gardens to “meet your class for a tantalizing night under the stars. Who knows who you might meet?” Bwog’s just guessing at the answer here, but you’ll probably meet your class.  Doors opened at 7:30.
  
• One 2012er has taken the night into his own hands by throwing his own party. Yes, it’s Jose “Stephan” “Pregame Lol” Perez’s “Sexxx in the City” party. Doors to the bar (thoroughly stocked with fruit juice and Coke!) open at 10.
• Those who want to stay closer to campus might be considering the various party options around as upperclassmen arrive. Doors open whenever their stuff gets unpacked.
  
• Sleep. Doors stay closed.
  
• For those seeking more of a national profile, Barack Obama is accepting the Democratic nomination later tonight at Invesco Field in Denver. Those of you of the Democratic persuasion can join the Columbia Democrats in the Tasti Lounge Hartley 3B starting about 8:30. Bwog’s Political Weekly will be liveblogging the speech right here as well.