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This is it. This is college done right.
As a freshman first-year, there are certain mistakes you need to make and times to have before those two semesters end. So as this first semester comes to a close, Bwog decided to compile these essentials so that you don’t miss anything big. There are
The distinctly freshman
- Mistake your first friends at Columbia (NSOP) for your best friends…
- Find the love of your life.
- Realize that wasn’t the love of your life and college isn’t like in the movies.
- Not really realizing that you might need to work for once in your life..
- Assuming Butler is the only library.
- Almost forgetting to sign up for a PE class
- Be THAT freshman at a party (but only once)
- Have CAVA (or whatever it’s called nowadays) on your speed dial.
- Walk to Battery Park and back overnight (trust me, it’s dope)
- Discovering the third floor reading room in Diana
- Come out as ___________
- Break up with your high school boy/girl/humanfriend
- Awkward first office hours
The food-related
- Get really excited about the dining halls
- …(one week later) HATE the dining halls
- Figuring out Joe’s is easily a two minute walk from Milbank or Diana
- Go to Deluxe’s five dollars burger nights
- Make friends with the halal guy on 115 near Schapiro
- Midnight Breakfast (you get in first being a first-year, hollah)
- Big Sub
The things that will most likely continue well past your first year
- Actually going downtown one night instead of just staying in MoHo
- Missing your L-course sign-up time
- Panicked first email to a professor for an extension
- Panicked second email to a professor for an extension
- Be homesick.
- Think about transferring.
- Gain weight.
- Combine drinking and studying by getting drunk in one of the secluded rooms with your friends. Multiple times.
- Go crazy.
- Be irresponsible.
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19 Comments
@NYU Just transfer.
@MoHo is wrong It’s supposed to be MoHi…Morningside Heights, fools, not Morningside Hots.
@"moho" is the most precious barnardism
@Anonymous wtf is MoHo?
@Um making friends with the halal guy on 115th isn’t a mistake?
@Anonymous “mistakes you need to make and times to have”… Though the title of the post is only half of what it’s about.
@Anon It’s always rather shocking to acknowledge that quite possibly Barnard students are a part of Columbia news organizations and maybe JUST MAYBE they contribute. But probs not. Too hard to fathom.
@JustDoNotPretend Just that many people reading it find out halfway through they don’t really get half the references/jokes is all.
@Anonymous and for a moment I was worried I wouldn’t get my daily suggested serving of passive aggression
@MoHo? really?
really?
just fucking kill me now
@D Having cava on your speed dial is pretty dang useful.
@So obvious a barnard person wrote/compiled this lol
@cc'16 it’s like barnard students go here! so weird! maybe our campus publications might actually acknowledge their existence!
@hey man he/she didn’t say that that was bad or anything, just that it was amusingly apparent.
@Anonymous They don’t go here.
@CC 16 Barnard* Freshmen Year Checklist
@you're not missing anything L-courses are just one of the many perks of eBear
@CC15 so what the shit is eBear?
@cc senior what’s l-course sign up? guess i’ve been missing it.