Every week, Bwog’s Elizabeth Self and Lorna Hale venture around the city comparing treats.  This week our bold snackers took on a New York giant: the bagel.  Read on for unexpected onions, bland blobs of bread, disastrous disagreements, actual artistry, and some stuff about bagels. As we all learned from the movies, New Yorkers are […]

If you’re curious about what’s going on in Student Council, Bwog’s got you covered.  This week CCSC talked about commuter swipe access, further bans on undergraduate use of certain libraries, University Senate direct elections and a random assortment of other things.  Satow Room correspondent Joseph Milholland gives you the scoop. Read on for more! By […]

After reading this NYTimes article about literature teaching you social skills, Bwog quickly brainstormed compiled through much effort the complete set of life-lessons first-years will glean from LitHum. Iliad: Sometimes when people get angry they kill people. Odyssey: Non cosi fan tutte. Histories: People lie to make their stories better. Oresteia: Systems of law are helpful. Oedipus: […]

The government may be shut down, but America’s ability to be awesome at sports hasn’t faltered.  We beat a team of international players in golf’s President’s Cup for the eighth time this year.  America!!!!!  (BBC) According to the New York Times, the Twitter bio is “a postmodern artform” whose master-guru is Hillary Clinton. (NYT) This […]

The romantic nights of spending some quality time with your lover, Butler Library, are upon us all with midterms here for some. Bwog ventured into the place itself to see what are the weirdest things you have snuck into Butler to get you through those long study nights. 2nd Floor: My friend took his dog […]

Want to escape the suffocating Butler 209 and the thoughts of your impending midterms? Ever wondered how salsa and Goldfish can make for the best dinner? Come hang out with Bwog tonight at 7:00pm in the SGO of Lerner 5th Floor. A little over-excited via Shutterstock

In this installment of WTF, Columbia, Bwog reveals a tramatic experience with the notorious laundry system. Two days ago, I spent my morning attempting to open a washing machine with a metal squeegee. Why, you ask? What could have possibly driven me to such MacGyver-esque (though admittedly crazy) behavior? The star of many a nightmare: Columbia […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations […]

The iPhone 5C will now be sold for as low as $45, which is a great price for a piece of plastic to match your Crocs. (Time) A Banksy piece on 6th Avenue and 24th Street is getting a lot of potty business from some canine friends. (New York Post) We finally did it; there […]

Today a tipster spotted this (bizarre? provocative? exciting?) image on the stairs leading to JJ’s place and was kind enough to share it with us. Naturally, the picture has inspired some questions: Where did it come from? Where is it going? Why JJ’s? What does it all mean? Bwog doesn’t have these answers, but a […]

As midterms doth approach, freshmen are hitting their stride on how-to-party and RAs are getting crankier.  One first-year floor RA emailed his floor, reminding everyone to shut up and get off his damn lawn buckle down on work for the betterment of the community.  The RA starts kindly: Just a reminder: Marijuana and drug paraphernalia […]

Check your links before you hit send! An anonymous tipster shared this email pictured below, which was sent to Barnard’s first-year leadership program. Instead of a link to the TEDx attendee application, the email links to the Braun Silk-épil Xpressive Easy Start Body & Face Rechargeable Epilator.

We’ve decided to pay more attention to USenate and what exactly they do, so as to be prepared for the upcoming election.  They had their big plenary meeting yesterday.  Senatorial summarizer Kevin Chen took notes. Les highlights: Per PrezBo, if this government shutdown goes on for more than a few weeks, the university is totally […]

A wonderful tipster has brought to our attention the very first Hawkma sighting of the year. In the early hours of this gray, foggy Saturday morning, our ethereal goddess Hawkma was spotted perched on a lamppost on South Lawn, renewing our faith as we plow through midterms (still). As always, Hawkma appeared stately, majestic, and elegant.

Yesterday, Morningside Heights got five-ish minutes of rain. Other parts of the country got tornadoes and October snow. (USNews, Chicago Tribune) The Columbia men’s XC team (ranked #27 in the nation) beat Tulsa (#7) and Princeton (#9) at the Notre Dame Invitational yesterday. This development should cause us to not be number 27 when rankings come out later this week. […]