For your viewing pleasure, video from last night’s snowball fight, courtesy of Danielle Noujaim:

Another blog has discovered our friend Sarah Dooley.  Yes, her character is a lot like Michael Scott, but so much cuter!

A Columbia grad student played in that intertubes-inspired concert at Carnegie Hall: “I haven’t hardly played at all.”

Drought in Africa: yes, it could happen, and it’s happened before: “startling.”

Ever wonder what happens in that underground lab by Avery?  It’s the behavioral labs for the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions.  A reporter discloses the horrors within.

Studying at a university that crushes your self-esteem, remind yourself now and again that you have skills.  It’ll raise your grades by one third of a grade.  Hopefully.  Maybe.

The J-School, with PrezBo’s impetus, is leading the way in adapting its curriculum to the post-print world.  In love with newsprint?  First, learn Photoshop.

The world’s largest collection of pop music is now available for your perusal at a library near you.  Hopefully, most of it is pre-Britney.

News flash: Ivy League tuition is expensive.  So we’ve signed up for a government supplement fund to help GI’s complete their education here.

The Gray Lady‘s Freakonomics blog included a post this morning about our very own beloved Sarah Dooley. The poster, Ian Ayres predicted: “she is going to make it big. I’m not sure how, but remember you heard it here first.”

False. We actually started praising Dooley’s hilarious YouTube series, AndSarah, about a year ago. Dooley made it to the Freakonomics blog because of her brief mention of the book Freakonomics in her newest episode, now available on YouTube, in which she winks at the camera and dubs it “summer reading”. Making jokes about books is what Columbians were put on this earth to do. Thank you, Sarah.

Our Hero is making some appearances by the church, probably to enjoy the nice weather and the sparrows and pigeons that hang out there.

Jeff Chou sent in the following picture of H-dad perched on a lamp by the chapel.

AND Hawkmadinejad made his YouTube debut via an accidental filming by Xavier Estevez! He’s even got his own tab tag! Video and note from Estavez after the jump.

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Too much to sift through on YouTube?  Life’s hard.  Bwog’s here to help.

There’s nothing as bad as being in Butler on a Saturday night.  But, instead of wasting your study break tonight on another disappointing episode of SNL, Bwog suggests checking out Sarah Dooley’s (BC ’11) delightful YouTube series, AndSarah. 

Sarah’s face may be familiar to you, but her acting and writing will surprise you.  In each of the series’ three episodes, Sarah offers clever and carefully crafted portraits of the life and times of college freshman.  Her character is a caricature of herself, awkwardly idiosyncratic and simultaneously accessible to all undergraduates.   

Her self-conscious fidgets and sputters are well-timed and reinforce her ridiculous, and often poignant, blunders. Although it takes a couple of minutes to get used to Sarah’s mannerisms in the first episode,  it’s impossible to resist her lessons in people watching on College Walk and lunching alone in Hewitt.
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While Bwog is trying to avoid posting YouTube video after YouTube video about CCSC—well, no we’re not—we couldn’t resist this gem from the LE:MON boys.

Plus, it gives us a chance to tease the upcoming Bwog Political Personals™ feature, coming in the next few days. Potential “Kristens” take note.

It’s raining. You’re not going outside. Good thing we’ve got a bunch of videos shot on the campus in sunlight.

1. You never thought you’d see a homemade Radiohead video shot in John Jay. Well, OK, maybe you did:

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What WAS that last night? 

Now you know. 

Incidentally, Bwog loves videos. If you have original footage of Columbia life, send it on in.

YouTube can be a goldmine when you’re bored enough.

Remember Reni Laine? Frontiers of science girl? The blonde wasp?

Well she ended up on Gawker again, this time for some suspicious “Webby” awards. The occasion’s not important, but you know what is? Her nipple!

While some would be mortified, Reni seems to take it in stride…

UPDATE 10:37 EST: Stop complaining the first picture shows too little nipple (you dirty dirty people), here’s more scandal, enjoy.