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Name, School: Gena Miller, CC
Claim to fame: Member of the 2009 intramural floor hockey championship squad “Team Fulton”?
Post-grad plans: Teach for America in NYC, allegedly.
Favorite study spot? Sounds like an oxymoron to me. I usually study in my room.
What are three things you learned at Columbia?
1. Never invade Russia in winter.
2. If a professor has more than 7 CULPA reviews that all say the same thing, it’s probably true.
3. People at Columbia (and lots in NY too) are interesting, quirky and wonderful and worth knowing. See “Senior Wisdom 2009 style: Chris Daniels”.
Justify your existence in 30 words or less.
I can type 57 words per minute.
What was your favorite controversy in your time at Columbia?
Ahmadinafest, hands down. It felt like Ivy League Woodstock, or maybe even what bowl football is like at other schools. I had a great time hanging out on the lawn with a few thousand of my closest friends growing my cultural awareness in festival style setting. I just felt like the controversy had a lot of upside, namely the new genre of ahmadinewords (like the hawkmadineblog for all of you ornithographers out there) and the knowledge that there are no homosexuals in Iran (phew).
Any battle wounds/war stories from the War on Fun?
Retired RA. ‘nuf said.
Would you rather permanently give up oral sex or cheese?
Melted cheese is the way to this woman’s heart so I’d keep the cheese.
What do you wish you could tell the Class of 2013 before they come here?
Always bring an umbrella. Also, get that Duane Reade frequent buyer card or whatever first semester. True, you will never get the 45 seconds of your life back that it took to fill out the paperwork, but you will earn fabulous treasures like money back towards your next purchase and discounts. Thumbs up.
Regrets?
I got a barbecue sandwich like 3 weeks ago from M2M. That experience stands out as a blemish in an otherwise beautiful relationship.
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@This is good really good.
@Foolish I’m confused as to what the previous two readers want. First, this is pretty much an outlet for nostalgia, and you are taking it way to seriously. I’m guessing you aren’t a senior, because if you were you’d probably realize that most of these questions are geared towards finding insight to the funny little quirks of Columbia. In this capacity, Gena does a great job. Second, reflection and advice shouldn’t have to be so inflammatory. Maybe you are very angry people who have lots of disdain for Columbia and think that certain areas of the University need a good “telling off.” If that is the case, maybe you’re at the wrong school. Or maybe you just need to grow the fuck up.
@so i guess comments (like yours) should be inflammatory?
“Or maybe you just need to grow the fuck up.”
Easy there, paaartnaaaa.
@ummm Actually, I am a senior…I didn’t say they should be inflammatory, I was just expressing my suprise that so many commenters reacted positively to answers that frankly to me, lacked any sort of cleverness, wit or creativity whatsoever. To me Nicolas and Josh’s senior wisdoms do exactly that, and I was just surprised at the negative reactions to Nicolas’s in particular and thought another point of view couldn’t hurt. I actually really like Columbia and have enjoyed my four years here, but what I won’t miss is the complete and utter lack of acceptance of different views characterized by comments such as yours.
@that should be that characterizes?
@ditto again.
@hmm not sure why everyone seemed to love this one so much, she seems like a genuinely nice person, but the answers are generic and boring. Good senior wisdoms (like good sex diaries on daily intel)aren’t afraid to spark strong reactions, Nicolas shows hows it’s done
@ditto yup.
@Who? She seems nice and all, but I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen her on campus because I can’t tell from the picture who she is. That’s too bad.
Great answers, bad picture choice.
Also, misspelling a coined word is very unique. Ornithographers are apparently bird photographers, according to Google, but “ornathographers” exist only on this website.
@YES! MCBAIN 5 FOREVER! GENA IS THE BESTEST!
@McBain 5 She was my RA last year…thumbs up.
@this is this is the best senior wisdom I’ve read so far- take note, aspiring cynics, there is such a thing as sarcastic humour without pretentiousness or arrogance…
@DOUCHE Not her this time. Just me.
@rando yay gena. i barely knew ye but thanks for adding your positivity, niceness, and coolness to columbia and to bwog, we all know they are in short supply in these parts
@yo.. this also has by far the best picture accompanying the senior wisdom…
nice work!
@lala Very witty. I really enjoyed this senior wisdom. Yay Gena Miller (though I don’t really know you lol).
I would add another piece of advice in the line of the DR card — get an OREN’s card! =)
@hahahah “Ahmadinafest, hands down. It felt like Ivy League Woodstock, or maybe even what bowl football is like at other schools.”
haha, so true. we were all excited that day, but at schools with football that is a weekly sentiment. wow columbia is a weird place.
@wow hit track. notice numbers 20 and 22 come from the same person. cough…brett…cough. wtf.
@anon yay for someone who doesn’t have 1,000 acronyms as their claim to fame! more regular, run-of-the-mill seniors, please! and the more senior wisdom, the better. it’s going to take a lot to get us to survive out there…
@dude she isnt really “run of the mill.” She is a super skilled varsity athlete who just was too modest to brag all over her senior wisdom like other douches we have seen. I agree more like her though.
@Transfer '09er God, I’ve known not one of these people. So much for networking.
@drug store frequenter duane reade is faster. the lines look longer but they move way faster than rite aid lines. I was once there and the pharmacy wait was literally over two hours. I mean, DR is incompetant, but Rite Aid is similarly or more so (and unfriendlier to boot).
@it seems that Bwog’s readers’ definition of douche is devoting more than one line to answers
@GENA 4 LYFE man what a dreamboat. where can i find a GOOD WHOMAN like this
@yay Yay Gena. You’re the best.
@boring …
boring
@Finally a convincing, interesting senior wisdom
@glad that bwog responded to the comments that asked for more women so rapidly. could we get a hispanic or two?
@Senior Wisdom As someone who submitted you do realize that the list of seniors went out last week and they are releasing them periodically. So really your suggestions are not being met quickly, they are just posting a few a day
@russia + winter = fail truer words have never been spoken
@Why not? Brett Robbins!!!!!
@because it would be a waste of time.
@can we get brett robbins!
@no, we cannot.
@umm brett robbins is gay. like literally he needs to come out now.
@gena i love gena miller sooo so much
@yea seriously i just did 93! combining this with my barnard education will help me achieve my dreams of becoming a hot secretary!
STRONG BEAUTIFUL
@really? not to be a jackass, but 59 words per minute is not that much….
http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php
@Wow you're a jackass I think by virtue of your post it is quite easy to see that you are a HUGE jackass. I’ve known Gena for a long time and I doubt she has ever taken a typing test. Honestly who actually takes those? Well you obviously. I bet you even put it on your CV…
@hahaha http://i42.tinypic.com/15ge54l.png
@finally a refreshingly non-douchey senior wisdom…never met you gena but you seem like a genuine person, congrats and good luck!
@YAY FLOOR FIVE REPRESENT! WE LOVE YOU GENA!!! REMEMBER MCBAIN FLOOR FIVE!!!
you rock!
@To reiterate That was a baller floor. It was wonderful how she’d pretend to be upset and would threaten to write us up, and then we’d act contrite, and then repeat. Gena, you played your part wonderfully in our continual drama.
@Gena is the best. ‘Nuff said.
@finally some wisdom. props gena. my regret is that i never met you these 4 years.
@THERE To the previous 2 Senior Wisdom douches: THAT’s how you do one.
Charming, AUTHENTIC, and not trying so very hard to appear unique or intelligent that you end up sounding you masturbate to your own reflection.
This is someone I’d like to get to know.
@you've got it all wrong you use a picture of yourself, not your reflection
@gena is the world’s most genuine lady. i feel unbearably sad for anyone who never got the chance to meet her.
fuck the cardinals, though.
@cow hampsh i agree completely with this post, especially the part about the cardinals…
i’m lucky to have met gena just in time before school ended and very happy i did…
who wouldn’t choose cheese? do you know how much that takes away from your life if it didn’t have cheese?!
@Lady G we love you!
@ornithologist, here Let’s be real, you know it’s gonna be cheese.
@this is cute and unpretentious. nice.
@Gena is this year’s Top Female Athlete. She’s just too modest to say so.
@a woman “Melted cheese is the way to this woman’s heart so I’d keep the cheese.”
ew, no.
@really now another woman here,
and she’s totally right. cheese is the best!
and judging the talent here, I’d say cheese is definitely the way to go
@Gena Fan GENA I LOVE YOU!!!!
Great Senior Wisdom!
@fulton teammate wooo!!!!!!
@2009er I always regretted not getting the Duane Read card. Good advice!
@Silly Duane Readers, Riteaid is superior in price, selection, and colour-scheme.
(Riteaid 3:0 duane reade)
It is, however, one block farther.
(Riteaid 3:1 duane reade)