Rise and shine! Wouldn’t want to miss your General Selection appointment time (you lucky, lucky bastards).

If you are lucky enough to have an appointment this morning, or you want to use your super powers to keep your room from being taken by staring at it, you can log into the General Selection Portal here. The process will officially be underway at 9:30 this morning, when a single senior with the lottery number 9 will be able to choose a room.

Since everyone can see the constantly updated data on which rooms are free, even those who chose in Suite Selection, we will not be LiveBwogging the process for your pleasure. If you get tired of staring at the taken Watt studio singles, the general selection list by uni and by appointment time might take the edge off the old addiction to laughable yet biting housing web coverage.

Bwog has been alerted that Housing has posted the appointment times for general selection. The times can be accessed in order of UNI and appointment time. The appointment slots run from 9:30 AM on April 15th to just after 5 PM on April 24th. Sincerest condolences to whoever is stuck with 5 PM on the last day.

Best of luck avoiding blind doubles/not getting shafted. Hopefully the roomiest of singles await you. 

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?

Older updates after the jump. Read more…

We return to John Jay Lounge for the penultimate day of suite selection. We’re sick of the candy. You’re sick of the candy. The same songs play over and over. Sophomores don’t understand how to pick rooms. OK, let’s do this. 

4:53 PM: Day’s final count! See above. Only one Nussbaum and Harmony double each remain, with a bunch of McBain left. See you tomorrow, unlucky sophomores!

4:45 PM: Only one full double left in Nussbaum with two half doubles.

4:31 PM: Final updates for the day coming soon.

4:08 PM: The last wave of the day is pouring in. The end of Harmony is probably nigh.

3:49 PM: Furnald is gone! No doubles left…

3:36 PM: Shapiro is down from 48 to 33 doubles and 25 to 18 walk-through doubles. 

3:31 PM: BIG drop. Broadway went down from 12 to 5. 

3:17 PM: Major board updates. Six rooms left in Nussbaum. 65 in McBain with 2 half doubles left.

3:05 PM: Three suites taken from Harmony! Oh Snap! A weird mash-up of Billy Jean, Stand By Me and random eighties hits mixed with techno is playing, composed by someone named “DJ Chachi.” It’s like all the songs that has been playing through the housing lottery are replaying at once. Read more…

And now, the fifth day of our housing liveblog! Feel the despair!

4:47 PM: There hasn’t been a new group for many minutes, “Like a Prayer” is playing and Bwog is feeling very lonely. But we’ve finally got a final count for the day!

3:55 PM: Rooms in Broadway continue to drop along with Wien walk-throughs. A group of 4 just checked out the temperature gauge, which read a balmy 83 degrees here in the John Jay lounge. The housing people are absorbed in the age old competition “Shoot the Bottle at the Trash Can.”

3:15 PM: Each member of the housing staff wears a ‘Get a Room’ t-shirt every day of this process. Have they all been wearing the same shirts for the past five days? Ew.

3:11 PM: Love is a Battlefield is echoing through the room. The lounge now has the humidity of a rain forest.

2:58 PM: In remembrance of the suite you won’t get, we’ve cleaned up our table.  Behold, the doubles.

2:46 PM: There goes the last Claremont Suite. The board is getting grayer and grayer…

2:40 PM: There goes the Claremont suite on 7. Only one Claremont suite left.

2:37 PM: Thriller is blasting out of the speakers, and friendships are being strained over the sparse options. 

2:30 PM: Broadway is going fast, down to 22 from 29. A few more McBain rooms taken too. Women are screaming for no apparent reason. This is weird. 

2:11 PM: More McBain doubles being snatched up with pairs of sophomores filling up the sixth floor. People are taking catnaps in butterfly chairs and looking sadly out at the rain. 

1:54 PM: Groups of rising sophomores hang around, wondering why there are not any singles left on the board. Hopes of large McBain doubles shouldn’t pose a problem yet: 136 left. Some sophomore groups with high numbers are dropping to General hoping to get Furnald.

More updates after the jump. Read more…

Welcome to the fourth day of our Housing live-blog!

3:50 PM: The final few groups are shuffling out. It’s calm and quiet…for now.

3:42 PM: Only one Watt studio double left on M!!! 

3:38 PM: The iPod returns! Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z is on. Fitting…

3:28 PM: Only two slots left in Ruggles, one with RA and one fifth floor suite.

3:25 PM: The iPod is off, and someone is playing piano. New motto: “YOU are the MUSICIAN!”

3:22 PM: One Ruggles five-person suite with RA remains, and we’re down to the last two Watt studio doubles, folks. Breakdown on Watt: A-1, M-1. 

3:13 PM: Only four Watt studio doubles, and the last three double Ruggles suite is gone. Breakdown for Watt: A-1, B-1, M-2.

2:57 PM: Just one Ruggles three-double suite left. The iPod magically switched colors from red to black. Is the lottery inducing hallucinations?

2:53 PM: Only five studio doubles left in Watt!! A-1, B-1, M-3.

2:50 PM: Candy was just restocked. Damn, Cow tales are good…

2:40 PM: A surge of groups has flooded John Jay lounge. “I don’t know what that board means!” exclaims a frustrated student. Board updates coming soon.

Older updates after the jump. Read more…

It’s the smart mixed-group and the lucky juniors today.  We’ll keep you updated with the scrawls on the Whiteboard of Fate while you bite your nails and “concentrate” in class. 

7:00 PM: Official update of “What’s Left?” available on the housing website. Essentially you’re looking at the chart above you, plus 2 rooms each taken in McBain, Nussbaum, and Broadway.

4:34 PM: Almost. We’ve also got the word that two (presumably walk-throughs) have been taken in McBain in addition to the two rooms in Nussbaum. They’re folding up our folding chairs, so LiveBwog must say goodnight!

4:30 PM: And Woodbridge leaves us! Resigned to a zero on the side of the whiteboard, which perhaps will get a sad smiley face drawn into it like the Watt 1BR doubles did. That’s it for today, housing hunters. 

4:16 PM: Only one Woodbridge spot left! And Bwog hears that although it’s not on the board yet, Nussbaum’s best spots are starting to go to rising juniors – two rooms in the 9th floor suite were just taken.

Older updates after the jump. Read more…

We return with more up-to-the minute liveblogging of the first day of suite selection from John Jay Lounge. Hold your breath and keep refreshing!

Board as of 4:24 PM 

4:58 PM: EC Exclusion-47, Watt One bedroom doubles-11, Watt studio doubles-51, Woodbridge; A-2, B-6, C-0, D-7, E-5, F-6, G-6, H-0, I-6, J-5, K-0, L-7. Ruggles has 2 five person suites and 3 four person suites, but they come with two RAs (i.e. only groups of 3 and 2 can pick into them, respectively). That’s all folks. 

4:46 PM: 47 EC Exclusion suites are all that’s left.

4:41 PM: Housing employees are cleaning up the refuse of soda cans and candy wrappers. Final count for the day coming soon.

4:32 PM: There is now one EC townhouse with a double left. No EC townhouses left. 

4:26 PM: Now no cokes left. Dejected students keep opening the fridge and walking away even more dejected. Yeah, it’s been a long day.

4:11 PM: 2-3 A’s, 1 C and no K’s in Woodbridge…and three Cokes left in the fridge.

4:01 PM: One guy sums up the feelings of many still waiting to be called: “we’re fucked.” 1 EC townhouse left.

3:51 PM: Only one 4-person Claremont suite left, though Bwog just talked to a four-person group that’s dropping into senior regroup, so there’s still a sliver of hope. 

3:45 PM: Still 6 six-person EC suites, as long as you don’t mind 1 double.

3:30 PM: They’ve run out of diet soda! Nooooooooo… Read more…

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.

Old updates after the jump. Read more…

You have the number. You’ve scoped out the floorplans. You’ve obsessed over your chances again and again, and tomorrow, all the pieces fall into place.

Yes, the path to your true housing fate begins tomorrow. This year’s winners (30/8) start the festivities at 9:30 a.m., with groups every two minutes until the six-person group with 30/2621 makes its choice at 4:30.

For those of you eagerly awaiting the results, stick with Bwog: we’ll be liveblogging from John Jay Lounge, bringing you the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

Housing just announced the appointment times for Suite Selection. Appointments will be in John Jay Lounge and start at 9:30AM on March 30th and continue at two minute intervals until 4:30 every weekday through the seventh of April. 

Don’t be late, and, if you’re assigning a proxy to pick a suite for you, make sure to register your proxy with housing. Good luck…

Full email after the jump. Read more…

To aid you all in the existential crises at hand (Wien or McBain… oh the horrors) Bwog’s Special Inebriated Stunts Correspondent Jon Hill has been tracking stumbles, drunk dials, puke incidents and blackouts for months to bring you the complete breakdown of every dorm on your list by Blood Alcohol Level.

Long live the atrocious reign of Carman.

Take a deep breath and log into your application. Your number is under Registration Summary. All those who wait for Housing to e-mail the alert first are and always will be fools.

But where is the entire list? Knowing everyone else’s business is so cathartic. Never mind! Read it and quite literally weep. The winners have an 8. The losers have 3000, which was thought by many to be merely a myth before this day.

This evening, mere hours before lottery numbers are due to be posted online tomorrow, Columbia Undergraduate Housing threw us for another loop: there’s a new dorm!

Cozily-named Harmony Hall will be available for the 2009-2010 room selection process and offers eight floors of freshly renovated off-campus-esque housing. Harmony is located at 544 W. 110th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam and contains 76 singles and 7 doubles, allowing 90 lucky guinea pigs in total to grace Harmony’s hallways next year.

There are 8-12 rooms per floor, which are arranged corridor-style. Harmony residents will also find a full-sized fridge, sink and stove on each floor, and (of course) a flat-screen TV in their common rooms. There’s a laundry room and bicycle storage rack in the basement, and only two RA rooms, allowing for many opportunities to wash dirty clothes and do some hardcore RA-free partying, every Columbian’s favorite combination.

Deal with housing

Pay $2.50 to ride the subway

Think about life after graduation

Prepare for a grim Columbia baseball season just when it was starting to get nice out

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