59 CommentsThey’ve sent in their reply letters, chosen their housing, decided on a meal plan. Now, members of the class of 2010 have become true Columbians: they have e-mail addresses. Welcome to CubMail, new minted Lions! Bwog recommends that you immediately set it up a forwarding address to a Gmail account, allowing you to bypass the annoyance of CUIT switchovers and to frenetically e-mail back and forth without overstuffing your inbox.
The real problem is this: what are we to call our awkwardly-named crop of first-years? Tenners? Oh-ten? Bwog would like to make a case for “Generation 10,” making the sophomores “Gen 9,” etc. But as always, we’re open to suggestions.
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@Alana that last comment was NOT ME, it was someone posing as me. Sorry everyone I love you all and don’t want anyone to think I’m a bitch before I even get there!
@offended Wow, if this is how Columbians treat people, then maybe I should’ve reconsidered my decision… you guys are being much more immature than enthusiastic prefrosh
@its true... perhaps you shouldn’t have graced us with your mature, wordly and far superior self. Why, I guess we’re just bartles and jaymes versus the moet and chandon you obviously are.
In all seriousness, get used to cyncism, sarcasm, jerks, immaturity and plain rudeness amongst your peers. By the same token though, the majority of them are much better than that and you should look forward to it.
@holy shit please delete this entire thread. so embarassing for everyone involved.
@'08er give them a break…. when you’ve never been to college, everything seems like a much bigger deal and you think of college in more high-school terms than you do after having experienced columbia first hand. they’ll grow up and look at their previous facebook activity with embarrassment. i know i do
@you know it is actually us single digit folks that are the exception since we have the pesky zero. but back in the last century, there was the class of “ninety-eight” or the class of “sixty-four”. How about class of ten.
@not M.R. Anyone else think this M.R. character is getting far more annoying than ttan ever was?
@not M.R. either I feel like I used to go by M.R. I can’t even remember.
@M.R. point taken.
@Wait... No one is more annoying that TTan. No one.
@not ttan people who consistently identify themselves on an anonymous blog, eg. ttan, M. R., moph, are usually annoying
@M.R. If wanting to have some sort of credibility as a poster based on past comments is annoying to you, so be it. It’s not like I’m trying to base it on any sort of perceived real life cachet.
@strike 2 wanting credibility as a poster on an anonymous blog implies you have an inflated idea of your own worth, that you are, in effect, better than the rest of us anonymous cowards. annoying people think that. and use phrases like “any sort of real life cachet”. you’re not as annoying as ttan; you’re worse.
@moph hmm–i started posting with a name because i found myself being a giant asshole when i was staying totally anonymous.
having the name ups my douchebag factor, but it makes me think more than i would otherwise before i type.
that said, i have no defense. i’m annoying in real life, too.
@M.R. moph said it better- not attaching a name made me more assholish. now im just a douche.
as for being worse than ttan? that’s a pretty high bar to beat. I just might be flattered at your suggestion.
@Nice Slashdot reference.
@Muaha If you’re gonna call them Gen 10, I think I might have to take a year off to “find myself” or “lay brick in Italy” or whatever you kids are calling it nowadays, just sos I can see Gen 13.
@Stephen oh and how did all the frosh find BWOG? Was the varsity show super plugs that effective?
@Stephen how long until that creepy guy Jeffrey Northrop creates a “hottest girls in the class of 2010” facebook group?
@Whoa The level of Facebook community is pretty scary… I’m ’09 and I don’t remember my life being quite this settled in advance.
Welcome, freshmen! Ve hope you like it heeir. Ah ah ah.
@um hey 09, I’m 07 and we’re the last class to have arrived here without facebook to give us e-friends first. take that authenticity!
@on the downside I wish we’d had facebook then. I might have more friends now. right now after three years my count still pales in comparison to the prefrosh…
@Alana A) I like “twenty-ten”–I think it has a nice ring to it.
B) Although I will admit to having a facebook, I do agree that the online world of prefrosh has gotten out of control. It takes the excitement out of meeting people. Example–during DOC, half the people already knew each other through myspace, and those without a myspace felt alienated because they were not a part of the “Columbia 2010” group.
C)Don’t hate our class
=( Perhaps we’re annoyingly eager and optimistic, but I’m sure that’ll fade.
@MySpacer Hey Alana, sorry you feel that way about the MySpace group. I’m guessing you were in the 9-10 DOC? Because I went on the 23-24 DOC and made a conscious effort to meet new people. Plus I heard that the 9-10 MySpacers were a bit rowdy …
@Alana I don’t know? You seem like a giant asshole to me! Then again, I suspect that the optimism a lot of you are showing is because you’ll finally be able to get laid by other homely overachievers now that you’re finally done with ace-ing your AP geography and College French 2 classes…lolol
@shira Hilarious! I’m glad the internet is allowing for this glorious bickering even before the ’10ers get to Columbia.
Also, don’t count on the MySpace friendships necessarily panning out…
@Gen 10 G10 a.k.a G Force 10 a.k.a Young Dimes (Hopefully there a few) a.k.a. Decigen a.k.a. Dime Pieces a.k.a. Decagoons
@you're already too full of yourselves. way to go.
@Prefrosh I like Generation 10. Or Generation X. Whatever.
@haha They already have a bunch of facebook groups including this one with a real discussion in the “discussion section” (I don’t think I’ve seen a thread this long in any other facebook group) entitled “there is something weird about meeting all of your friends on facebook”
http://columbia.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204015911
@ugh thats so fucking lame.
@all you have to do is forward to gmail, but keep your messages in your cunix mailbox too incase gmail fails.
@... i think bwog’s true readership just revealed itself…
@hey 5 throught 7. the seas thread is two down.
@Wow Anti-intellectual!
@no, it's anti-loser. they’re dragging this fucking school down.
@Wow and… you’re an idiot. If there’s one thing this school needs, it’s obviously less intelligent people. What were we thinking, trying to attract the best and brightest?
@generation X, haha, good one Wow, way to come to fast judgments there. We may be idiots, but that’s because we haven’t gone to college yet… hmm…. HMMMMM…. PONDER IT!
@M.R. did it occur to you that you’re not the first and you won’t be the last. theres a large sample size- you all will be bright eyed, bushy tailed, incredibly naive and annoying- until the soul-deadening system that is Columbia finally gets you too. You have one year before you get jaded. hope you enjoy it frosh-scum.
@dude lighten up. that jaded, victim-of-Columbia stuff gets as annoying as bushy-tailed people do. and every year has scummy people and non-scummy people; freshmen don’t have a monopoly.
@M.R. I only do it to scare pre-frosh after they’ve accepted a spot at Columbia. I try channeling the gloom and doom to getting stuff changed- but the lack of results ends up compounding the bitter frustration. oh well.
@ugh all the nice, eager 09ers I was glad to see admitted last year have all become embittered egomaniacs. the same hardening process greets every flock of new columbia students, unless they’re already jaded/rich/bored east coast prep school people, in which case they’ll be the initiators rather than the initiates (along with the asshole pasta servers in ferris…and the registrar’s office people…and everyone in SDA…and…)
@hey! lay off the pasta servers in ferris. they’re are awesome. the sandwich makers at 212, on the other hand…
@Hey... I love the sandwich makers at 212. Maybe you’re going at the wrong time of day.
The ones in URIS, on the other hand…
(but I guess that happens when you’re working in a business school)
@anti-intellectualism? sorry, spitting technical jargon has nothing to do with an intellectual state of mind
@yeah because knowing how to set up the basic aspects of your email accounts could never be useful — it only ever something an outcast SEAS student would care about. Wtf?
@seriously see name field
@um intellectualism and usefulness are not synonymous things
@to clarify further a plumber is useful, but not intellectual.
@Yeah, but does that mean that some asshole calling people with any knowledge at all “anti-loser” is cool? Not so much, dude.
How dare anybody actually think or learn anything about the things they use every day! Fuck that.
@Dave Barnes You wrote: “a forwarding address to a Gmail account”.
A better move would be get your own domain name and use a POP email client instead of an IMAP client.
,dave
@Re; I thought Gmail does use POP. It only supports POP, not IMAP.
@thats not true you can set up thunderbird to imap your gmail. I definitely recommend thunderbird over gmail forwarding however
@better Do both. Forward to Gmail, then POP/IMAP it with Thunderbird/Apple Mail. Trust me…if your computer crashes, you want to have all that mail backed up online on Gmail.
@also also, some people aren’t savvy/gung-ho enough to have their own domain. that’s not a good solution for the average user.
@dork can we call them generation ten, but spell it with roman numerals, just to confuse people?
@I don't often laugh out loud on the Internet... but haha!
@so if they’re tenners, the class of 2005 would be fivers, and people who graduated four years before that would be one quid?
@M.R. oh boy! now they can all mindlessly sign up for facebook! oh wait, too late. now they’ll just be adding a new ‘network.’ Facebook’s already turned them all into corporate tools they just don’t know it yet.