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Can’t find love at Columbia? Really? That’s weird. There must be something wrong with you.
We kid, we kid! No one can find love at the Columbia. That’s the point, right? We all commiserate about the Core, we all commiserate about not getting any. That is, of course, until today. The answer to all your problems can be found at LoveatCU, a brand-new dating site that promises to “revolutionize” the Columbia dating scene. The site’s background is of couples’ feet intertwined, lovers walking through European-looking cobblestone streets, and other affectionate stuff like that. Its slogan reads: “Each of us, then, is a ‘matching half’ of a human whole, because each was sliced like a flatfish”, a quote from every hopeless romantic’s favorite Lit Hum book: Plato’s Symposium.
In order to jump right into the world of Love at CU, simply register with your Columbia or Barnard email address and enter the UNI’s of your <3 crushez <3. Your crush will then find out that someone (someone!) has a crush on them, and they’ll sign up and enter their crushes, but you two probably won’t have crushes on each other, and you’ll be back where you started from. Love at CU has also employed the use of the rather cruel “abandon” and “reject” features, in which you can do exactly what those two terms imply to those on whom you crush and those who crush on you.
The site also offers a dating advice blog and a “most liked” feature, through which, if anyone actually signs up for this, you’ll be able to see the ten most liked people at Columbia. Thanks Love at CU, Bwog misses being 12 also.
Photo via loveatcu.com
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@i think computer nerds are sexxxay.
@yes agree – there are def. some cute comp sci guys.
@CRAZY It’s crazy to think that people have this idea that the dating scene is absent on campus. Seriously, the only reason people go on and on about this is because 1) they are too scared/socially inept to do something about it 2) keep the idea going by either not being interested in dating, or just not “taking action”.
It’s not that hard people. seriously. I have a feeling many universities have just as many “losers” that aren’t good with relationships, but that doesn’t mean we all need to keep complaining.
If you are complaining, shut up, it’s your fault.
If you’re bragging, shut up, and go pay attention to your significant other. If you’re bragging bc you got a bj, shut up, you’re a fucking loser too.
@actually (#18) thank you! i love how as soon as i said this, it was immediately assumed that 1) i am in a relationship; 2) i am bragging; 3) i am picking on single people; 4) i am a despotic dictator – none of which are true!
i have no sympathy for unhappy singles. it’s your own fault. stop complaining and start doing something about it. give it some effort, give it some time, and make yourself likable and you will get a date.
@Keropi Who cares about a CU version of a dating site? I wanna see a CU version of AdultFriendFinder!
@HERE. Top Ten Most Liked
Gentlemen
Michael Samuels (mjs2228@columbia.edu)
Jon Eisen (jje2107@columbia.edu)
Mark Heil (mhh2132@columbia.edu)
Ian Vo (idv2101@columbia.edu)
Paul Wallace (pmw2113@columbia.edu)
Ron Gejman (rsg2119@columbia.edu)
Eddy Zaia (ewz2104@columbia.edu)
Scott St. Marie (sws2110@columbia.edu)
Benjamin Landy (bsl2112@columbia.edu)
Anthony Potter (ajp2157@columbia.edu)
Ladies
Samantha John (smj2118@columbia.edu)
Arianna Sanders (aas2204@columbia.edu)
Laura Gabriele (leg2127@columbia.edu)
Sasha Fulton (slf2127@columbia.edu)
Kate redburn (krr2105@columbia.edu)
Cynthia Koo (ck2296@columbia.edu)
Rishika Samant (rns2114@columbia.edu)
Mailing Wu (mrw2143@columbia.edu)
Sara Arias (sma2111@columbia.edu)
Valeriya Safronova (vas2111@columbia.edu)
@yeah seriously someone post the most liked
@does anyone think the website looks like lov eat cu at first glance?
@... this idea is like… ten years old.
@www http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/mis?query=columbia&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max
@JESUS guys, track comment #42. it’s the same person trying to promote this site by creating multiple characters. how lame!!
7:15pm – LOLs
7:33pm – dares someone to like their professor
8:13pm – has a girlfriend, laments
8:26pm – points out lack of couples
8:34pm – is a guy named “jeanne”
8:46pm – found a date on loveatcu? cheating on his girlfriend?
8:59pm – brags about his blowjob
9:09pm – calls someone a retard, says he’s not the op
9:36pm – says it’s the cutest website ever… just rediscovered it?
i hate this site already because of its lame ploy for visibility.
@NOT the same person... …and btw, i just scored a threesome with two of my crushes! I did it on LOVEATCU.COM, visit today!
@Of course. No one is EVER going to believe that.
You really think we’re stupid, don’t you?
Then again you did come up wit the most flawed system I could imagine for this.
@haha just kidding. actually it was a foursome…
@You need to recalibrate your sarcasm detector.
@lol lol i’m one of the posters its called wireless you retard
@mmmm Nope, that’s not how it works. Nice try though…
@mmmm actually the other guy is right..that is how it works.
I doubt that the poster(s??) are going to post under the same ip considering its easy enough to switch computers if you really wanted to shill
@Yeah but he probably didn’t know that Bwog tracks posters.
Don’t you think more comments would be linked to each other if all it required was the same wireless network? Think of all the people in Butler using the same network.
@SIgh Go call an engineering friend, then get back to us. Before that point, don’t try to act like you know something about the topic.
@bitch I *am* in SEAS and that’s not how it works. People using Columbia’s wireless don’t all have the same IP address; rather, they are given an individual dynamic IP like dynamic-###-###.dyn.columbia.edu. I run a website that keeps track of these things.
@You are full of shit You are full of shit–even if columbia’s wireless router/switch assigns dynamic ip addresses, the router itself–the gateway to the internet is revealed through a static ip address of which it only has one (or a few depending on the network). clearly you are failing SEAS
@wow So so wrong. The origin address on the packets doesn’t change based on what ips it passes through. The IP of the switch is just used to lookup the MAC address in your laptop or the next router’s ARP table. They’re not NAT’d, we have fully resolvable addresses.
@case in point this is why no one at columbia gets laid.
@Haha 1000 points to this poster, who is correct. Columbia wireless IPs are assigned through DHCP. The same IP would only be reassigned when the router had cycled through most of its available address range. And there is no NAT, as you can tell from the fact that your IP is a global-internet IP (Columbia owns a huge block of addresses, as do most universities). #77 is a fool.
@Did anyone else find it odd that you get your crush’s SSN in addition to his or UNI?
@okay this site is a hilarious way to prank people.
@and how exactly would we know if this is some sort of trick? Just putting it out there…
@#48 reasonably attractive is what I meant to say
@yeah Obviously those names are used more by other girls, because if a reasonably girl walked up to me and was like “hey, wanna have sex right now?” my first thought would be “awesome,” not “slut” or “whore.”
@yeah everyone who says they hooked up on this site, just shut up…its been up for like what, 2 days now. Just cause you made the site and have been on a few different computers with different ip addresses doesn’t’ make you a different person, it just makes you a liar cause the site hasn’t actually done anything yet and without even making a prediction, never will unless the business model changes to something much more appealing to the general body and more sensible that one could actually find someone to date on it.
@wow this has to be the cutest website ever :)
@ugh you dudes need to stop throwing out words like whore and slut and easy. You are just as easy and sometimes, ladies just want to get laid too. Why’s that bad?
@it's bad because it’s only ‘sometimes’
@sooooo you’re saying it’s bad for “some” girls to want to get laid? but not bad for guys to want to get laid? Wowza. Everyone wants to get laid, and if they don’t, it’s because of social rules that humans have adopted for morality’s sake. Sex drives are in everyone. You should take a biology or evolution class or something.
@haha no... i was saying i wish they wanted to get laid all the time, and the negative connotations of ‘slut’ ‘whore’ and ‘easy’ would be part of the so-called ‘utah dialect’
@ohhh ok now I take that back. to you specifically. But I think the original poster of the easy comment must have been a dude, and unfortunately, there are dudes that think that.
It is too bad that only some girls want to get laid. But it’s also too bad that some guys think that girls also want more than getting laid…often leaving girls who want to get laid less able to do so because guys have weird egos and expectations about females.
@yes but... guys get labeled ‘creep’ if they confidently (and in a spirit of equality) suggest ‘just sex’ anyplace other than a drunken party. girls who just want to get laid, on the other hand, can basically get what they want any time just by smiling.
@hmm i wish it were that easy.
@Ms. Norbury Ok, so we’re all here ’cause of this book, right? Well, I don’t know who wrote this book, but you all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it ok for guys to call you sluts and whores. Who here has ever been called a slut?
@lol play nice fellas
@Male Alum I’m telling you, go Barnard. CC girls are generally stuck up and SEAS girls… just no.
Barnard ladies put out more often and are a hell of a lot better at it.
@hey hey Post the “most liked” so I can see them without having to sign up! come on dude
@why don't you just sign up? i did, just to see them. so no, don’t post the “most liked” so the loser above me has to sign up. you are not too cool to enter your uni and make up a password!
@why do you care? if it was you, you’d know. you’d have gotten an email telling you that some lovely individual selected you from their hordes of options at columbia as one of their top three bangs.
@i found love at columbia just look around you! look at the smiles on everyone’s faces in john jay lounge this week! love love love everywhere! i fell in love with my room for next year
@urgh My god you’re abrasive.
@what? I can’t see any faces. It’s too dark in there.
@This is going to turn into people signing up and filling in the names of people who they suspect having crushes on them, finding out, and being awkward.
@not true not true because she just agreed to go on a date with me :) im in heaven
@PLEASE That’s not even remotely true. Name names or bust. This has bs attempt at promotion from Bored@Butler tips all over it.
@hey why so serious? stop being so cynical just cause i got a blowjob doesn’t mean you wont get one…someday
@hmm You..contacted her through the website (opened today), scheduled a date for tomorrow and got a blowjob today?
Either you’re just a terrible liar or she’s a raging whore.
I wish my crush was such an easy ride.
@idiot you retard im not the op i just hate pessimists like you just cause you dont get any action doesn’t mean we do loser
@#36... …is in love with syntax. met on loveatcu!!!
@LOL “I insult you and therefore feel better about myself!”
Haha, puberty really was a wash in terms of maturity for some of us, wasn’t it?
(If you’re not the OP then wait…post #33….you got “a” blowjob? That’s your claim to sexual health? THAT’S the thing you try to throw in people’s face? That in your existence, you got A bj? HAHAHAHA…..They should make a porno out of your life)
@'09er The men most liked list made me gag and shudder. Shudder and gag. Thanks, internet.
@jeanne i think someone is jealous they are not on it…
@OOOh What is it? What is it?
I want to know! (And the 11′ and 12’er too). i don’t want to have to register.
Copy and paste this badboy. Then I’ll see if there’s interesting in joining the game :)
@omg omg this website is amazing
@actually dating around here (as anywhere) is not that hard if you make an effort and are remotely likable.
@right... right…and that’s why we have so many couples here right? lol i’d say its more the same couples who pda all fucking over the place
@ouch you just called me (and at least, if not more than, half the rest of the school) lazy and not even remotely likable in one fell swoop.
go make out with your significant other, hitler. stop picking on those less fortunate than you!
@Wow Awesome. It’s not a party until someone calls someone else Hitler.
Romance is clearly this campus’ hot button.
@haha fortunately, both of those are things you can change
@sighh sighhh if i only didn’t have a girlfriend
@Then what? You’d be able to go through the desperate quest for finding a girlfriend?
Remind me not to send you to the market with a cow.
@Dominique Oh, leave ’em be. This looks adorable. “We are a bunch of Columbia students who realized that the world can always use more love.” Awww.
@Tsk Mocking is better than condescending because at least you have to put some effort into it.
@Poetry at work Nothing makes you want to open your heart to a deeper connection than being compared to ‘flatfish’.
@its not letting me sign up :( it says my name can only be letters. but im typing only letters. shenanigans.
@haha! you’ve been fooled by another casey affleck mocukmentary! eat that joaquin phoenix!
@i dare anyone I dare anyone to like their CC professor
@Issues …You have them.
@Fishy Couldn’t they have picked a quote that didn’t have the word ‘flatfish’ in it?
@oh dear oh eliza shapiro, how i love thee.
@uhhh that’s kind of sad…
@Surfin' UWS How is this a dating site exactly?
You’re not meeting anyone new; its a highschooly way of confirming established crush through anonyma and “xoxo”s.
I see this resulting in obsessive email checking and “crush list” editing rather than an actual date, let alone relationship.
Wouldn’t a normal dating site or networking activity be more….yknow, efficient?
Pass.
I’ll stick to chronic masturbation. More efficient.
@Did you say Masturbation? Sorry, having difficulty seeing what you typed there.
@hahaha @#2 lol the irony
@esc candidates Spec has ’em:
http://columbiaspectator.com/2009/04/06/breaking-esc-general-elections-candidates-announced
@ESC candidates fuck ’em.