Update, 8/8: Now juniors can get in on the deal for a (very) limited time!

Interested juniors should email the Housing team at housing@columbia.edu by THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH at 12 NOON. If you would like to be considered with a roommate BOTH roommates must email Housing confirming their willingness to transfer to UAH and state the name and UNI of their preferred roommate. We currently do not have any single apartments available, consequently if you do not have a preferred roommate please be aware that another Columbia student will be assigned with you at random.

Today, rising seniors with guaranteed housing for the upcoming school year received an email from Housing about the opportunity to live in student apartments that are described as (comparatively) pretty sweet.

Write the Housing powers that be:

“These apartments are similar to those in Watt, but are generally more spacious and have some upgraded features. They also serve as great transitional options for seniors who are looking for more independence while still being connected to the Columbia community. University Apartment Housing is part of Open Housing.”

If this news feels familiar, that’s because the same thing happened one year ago, on this day.

According to this year’s email, there are several one bedroom doubles and studio apartments available on 113th and 114th streets; you can check out the sample floor plans below. Interested seniors who want in should send an email to housing@columbia.edu by TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH at 9AM. Emails should include the name of your potential roommate.

No word yet on what these means for the rest of us—or what will happen to the rooms that’ll be vacated by the seniors who get to upgrade. Check back for updates, and send any relevant information our way at tips@bwog.com.

It’s that time of year when friendships become political liabilities and a 300 sq ft box seems like an extravagant luxury. The actual process of picking a hovel takes place much later (and we’ve got you covered on that front), but before we get to that point, groups must be forged in the fiery crucible of deceit and realpolitik. Wholly unprepared for the challenges ahead, Bwog decided to appeal to familiar friends: CC Philosophers.

Bwog's Special Housing Correspondent

• Plato: Housing is all really a lie. Like, seriously, guys. I poked around in John Jay’s Housing “livestock yard” last year, and found Scott Wright manipulating the whole extravaganza like it was a puppet show. You “chose” to break down into doubles, but didn’t you really want that last Ruggles 8-person? Of course you don’t believe me, but I’ve seen the light, damnit.
• God: There’s this big ‘ol list of rules over on the Housing website, but they’re kind of a bore and most people didn’t really read them.
• Marcus Aurelius:  Suites are for people with emotions. Do general selection. Get a Wien single. Lock the door. Never come out.
• Machiavelli: Be a complete social whore starting second semester. Casually pick up the check after your regular weekend brunches, and be liberal with your cigarettes. Most importantly, always have a backup roommate ready in case you need to bail into a double.
• Rousseau: Never leave the state of nature. EC or bust.
• Kant: One does not simply ask how to house—careful inspection of the internal processes and minutia of the housing sequence of events will reveal a nuanced dialectic joining the metaphysical diversity of options with the inevitable conclusion that happiness is elusive, if not impossible, when choosing between a variety of friends, each of whom are assigned a rank along a dualist gradient of friendship and general utility with relation to your personage.
• Marx: Dorms are bougie. Should’ve gone for Potluck.
• Darwin: Study abroad.
• Nietzsche: Don’t let yourself be roped into the same housing as all the other sheep. Tell the whole system to “Blow me” and go get an apartment off campus.