50 CommentsBwog took a stroll around Butler this fine Sunday evening, for such is our time-honored tradition. What we saw is a haunting portrait of the terrible side-effects of caffeine and what must be at least half of Starbucks’ yearly revenue. We also observed the masses try to escape their madness: literally, below, and figuratively, at Facebook.com. See more portraiture after the jump — if you dare.
Does your study space rival these in filth, sheer volume, or Starbucks patronage? Send photographic evidence to bwog@columbia.edu and we’ll gladly add it.
— JNW
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@CC alum Hey kids, procrastination and stress in law school apparently entails trolling the Bwog, looking at scenes of undergrad procrastination and stress. Mind-blowing.
Also… are there two JUICE-BOXES in one of those pics?
@seas i recognize that linear algebra textbook~
@Relax Why is everyone being so judgmental?
Maybe for some, cramming and staying in Butler for 72 hours straight without any sleep is necessary. Everyone studies differently.
Also, please do not say shit like “Columbia is easy” because everyone here knows they have to study and stay on top of the ball to do well.
Bottom line: stop acting like stereotypical holier than thou Ivy snobs, guys.
@question Don’t many other colleges have libraries close at midnight or 2am or whatever, and so people have to leave? Correct me if I’m wrong, I was under the impression that’s how it is at some places, e.g. Harvard.
@that's because all the real pre-meds that are doing well in that class sleep from 2-8am and already know their shit. they are on top of it. as in, they won’t need to be doing every single problem the night before the final.
@stressed out premed surprising to see no purple mowschowitz problem books in these pics.
@ZOMG YES SO TRUE
@gotta be kidding me Under NO circumstances is this kind of craziness in Butler ever necessary. Columbia is generally pretty easy, and I’m starting to think that you guys are masochists who love the pain of holing yourself up in a miserable place like that for a week. Just study in your room if you need to camp out somewhere; Bulter helps to give all of you high blood pressure every semester and contributes to campus animosity.
@Hmmm Hey, it sucks that ppl still camp, but at least it’s not as out of control like the past few years…
…or am I wrong? I haven’t been to Butler yet this finals time…
@really? is this kind of crazed “studying” really necessary?
@Anonymous These maniacal, caffeine over-dosing, sleep cycle disrupting campers will basically have cut their lives in half by the time they graduate from Columbia. Darwinism at its best. Nice.
@yay Nice to see more people with the Feed bag.
@THAT'S MY STUFF IN ONE OF THE PICTURES! I’M FAMOUS!
@butler 209 during finals always looks like the domestic departures area at LaGuardia: a transient population, living off overpriced coffee and sandwiches, dishevelled and haggard, sleeping upright or wedged uncomfortably into chairs, unable to stray too far from their belongings, which they have strewn around them in an attempt to mark out something like territory, so close to taking flight and yet so, so far away…
@Wow... So…studies are pretty much inconclusive about whether caffeine has nootropic effects in the short-term. In other words, it may or may not help you learn.
What is conclusive, though, is that this is sad. Just plain sad.
@because... Red Bull gives you wings and coffee gives you the jitters… whatever happens, it wakes your ass right up, take me for instance, I haven’t slept in over two days and I feel fucking fantastic
@WPS BETTS!!!
@butler 202 oh hi! the water boiler is mine. i boil water and stick it in a nalgene and cradle it so when butler heating shuts off i have something to keep me warm.
@Anonymous Oh, neat! Hi!
Clean up your goddamn coffee cups and wrappers, you slob.
@diet soda lol why not finish that diet coke before getting that diet pepsi? haha
@butler 202 i wanted a cold soda, and the coke was warm, big deal!
@"The horror... the horror…”
…said the Columbia student entering Butler for the first time.
@primal scream? oui? non?
@love I love Columbians. We are collectively a selfish, sad, and nutty bunch of people
@photo nut who took the photos (especially #1?) I love the look of the first one
@that's really nothing special. you can do that to any picture in iphoto. clearly bwog is not a PC.
@... studying in butler is like driving a car in manhattan. when you wanna park, you have to circle for hours, you usually end up getting stuck in some shitty neighborhood that is loud and smelly and at the end of the day, you really just kinda look back on all the time you wasted and say “wow, that was a whole ‘lotta aggravation for nothing.”
@wow i love you.
@i'd like to point out that the 8th picture down has a water boiler on the desk…
@HA! a water boiler?!?! that is kinda depressing.
@red bull these people understand that caffeine *reduces* one’s ability to focus, right?
@truth the but cleaning schedule has made looking at study space filth much less disgusting. the reduction in camping has made the but more hygienic! hooray!
@no reason... … for anyone to ever need 4 textbooks open at the same time. especially when the solutions manual is the only one closed on the entire desk.
@About that4th pic Ahh stupid Soviet Final!
@Yakov Smirnoff In my country final take you.
@well, that book is also for European Catastrophe’s final, which is infinitely harder than rise/fall of the soviet union, i promise.
@noted the final (rise and fall) was more annoying than difficult.
@props to he or she with the artscroll. you know who you are.
@toli this finals period actually seems a little bit mild. have we all just resigned? I saw crazier things during midterms this semester, MIDTERMS!
@word finals seem a bit less crazy this semester…perhaps because we had no hungerstrike/foreigndictator/mexicanhunters on campus this year.
@... is this normal? do other schools do this? comments from the peanut gallery please.
i must say, though, that grinding it out in butler during exams is the only time i really feel like i’m a part of a columbia community
@amen to that being around other people suffering through the same thing as I do makes me feel like part of a community as well… hell, I’ve developed whole friendships and even social circles from being around the same people all the time during every finals week.
@starbucks is making a KILLING
@jesus cristo what is wrong with people at this school?
@I'll tell you They’re champions.
@clg my sentiments exactly. to me, finals season always seems to be when the ever-present collective campus psychosis rears its ugly head. this stuff is totally and completely insane.
@well no, it is not necessary.
these are just a collection of stressed out slackers that think they can pull it off by pounding in caffeine and staying up all night.
adderall is the way to go!
@the christmas tree is my favorite.
@aw bowg... …you missed it last night when the christmas tree was lit up in all its glory. also, there was some person doing a painting in that same room last night too.
@bwog, the christmas tree is back on…