15 CommentsWinner of a bronze medal at the 2002 Olympics, figure skater Timothy Goebel, 25, (the first American to land a quadruple jump in competition, and the first skater in the world to land a quadruple salchow) is enrolling at GS this Fall. Now that he’s broken all the records, Goebel will strip off the flashy spandex to don a tailored suit. He plans to major in finance and pursue a career in investment banking.
At least he realized his childhood dream before selling out.
In other news, Columbia researchers have been paid close to $17 million to research arsenic.
And there’s a nasty squabble brewing at the J-school. Two editors quit managing a website associated with the Columbia Journalism Review after funding was cut in half to give more money to the print mag. New media proponents are outraged.
Thanks to Prem Mittal for the tips.
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@damn Shit I wish I knew about the finance major instead of wasting my time doing economics!
@McFister He’s going to be disappointed to learn that there is no finance major at GS.
@ditto x2 goes to show how hard it is to get admitted if you can’t even read the short list of majors at GS. good job, tim. way to bust yourself out.
@look at me i crap diamonds
@now, now. to be fair, columbia is a celeb whore – it’s not hard for any celeb or celeb offspring to gain admission to any of the schools.
@twice-baked i know you want to be gawker, but it’s a little pathetic to lift stories right off the website.
http://www.gawker.com/news/columbia-journalism-review/we-must-burn-the-online-journalism-village-in-order-to-save-it-193598.php
@Um. First off, not every CUer/Bwog-reader reads Gawker. Those of us who don’t Gawk appreciate Bwog passing on relevant Columbia tidbits we might have missed. Second, Gawker didn’t break the news any more than Bwog did. Both simply linked to and summarized a New York Times article.
@sorry to break the news to you but i submitted the cjr daily news as tip to teh bwoggers along w/the other stories and got it from the ny times (i don’t read gawker)
you really need to take a chill pill and just enjoy the fact you now know you may be sitting next to a former olympic medalist this fall
@who the fuck cares about gawker? half baked us weekly celebrity bullshit edited for ueber provincial “manhattanites”. blech. give me bwog anyday.
@Ah! Holla!
@ditto bwog > spec > gawker
@haah I hope that, in the classroom and in walking around campus, figure skater Tim does everything with the flair and embellishment of a figure-skating routine. You know, every ordinary movement and act should be followed by a slight by unmistakable little flourish.
@Keep it happy Keep it snappy
Keep it gay.
@btw love the tags bwog
@welcome to your awkward introduction to columbia Tim!