Valentine’s Day approacheth! Today’s Columbians looking for love are Fainan Lakha, Aria Sharma, and Laura Fisher. Fun fact about Fainan: when he’s not working as a daily editor for Bwog, he’s moonlighting as a sweater vest model! If you want to take any one of these awesome humans on a date, email us and we’ll set it up (and give you ten whole dollars to take ‘em out). If you don’t, we still think you deserve a shot at love. Fill out our short questionnaire and send a picture to personals@bwog.com and the face to the right could be yours.
Name, Year, School, Major: Fainan Lakha, CC ’17, Philosophy or Middle East, South Asia, and Africana Studies…and yeah, I write for bwog.
Preference: Guy for girl
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Your nightmare date in seven words or fewer: We meet. We talk. We stop talking.
What redeems you as a human being? I’m just really invested and enthusiastic about whatever’s in the moment… to a fault, perhaps.
Library room of choice: I love the Edward Said memorial library in Butler; it’s a cozy cove full of the best books and vibes and sometimes the annotations on those old tomes hold the lost wisdom of theorists of yore and sometimes they hold old newspaper clippings which is cool, too.
Beverage of choice: Wine (esp. spanish rioja) for the high times and scotch for when I feel like donning a vest the quiet times.
Guilty Pleasure Song: Work Bitch. (my butler anthem)
Where can you usually be found on a Saturday night? The part I always remember is drunkenly reflecting on the evening on my walk back from wherever the hell I was. Cool night air is cool, too.
Historical Hottie? Meera is who I’d say. She was a 16th Century Indian mystical poet who just basically wrote about how much she loved Krishna all the time. There’s something sexy about that much love for the feeling of… love.
Name, Year, School, Major: Aria Sharma, BC ’15, Biology
Preference: Classy broad seeking eligible young gentleman
Hometown: I say DC, but I really mean McLean, VA
Your nightmare date in seven words or fewer: I vomited; he still tried kissing me.
What redeems you as a human being? I cried after seeing The Lion King on Broadway. Evidence that I have a heart. And feels and emotions and things.
Library room of choice: Ah, studying. Is that why I’m here?
Beverage of choice: Gin. It’s a food group.
Guilty Pleasure Song: All of them. Key favorites include “IMDABES” and “Dancing On My Own.” Warning: Ke$hAria occasionally makes appearances.
Where can you usually be found on a Saturday night? Every good night starts out sitting on the steps.
Historical Hottie: Atticus Finch…By which I mean Gregory Peck.
Name, Year, School, Major: Laura, 2014, CC, Political Science
Preference: Girl for guy
Hometown: I was born in Perth, Australia and then we moved around a lot. I went to high school in Chicago, so let’s go with that!
Your nightmare date in seven words or fewer: This happened: “How would you feel about a boyfriend who’s your slave?”
What redeems you as a human being? I can tell a good story. And I can find Waldo in under 10 seconds.
Library room of choice: You can find me in the Ref Room. I have a knack for showing up right when a seat opens up.
Beverage of choice: Coffee. Red wine. Gin and tonic (extra lime). (Would those be good lyrics to a song?)
Guilty Pleasure Song: It’s got to be Lana Del Rey’s “Ride.”
Where can you usually be found on a Saturday night? It’s senior year- 1020.
Historial Hottie: Not to be awkward, but young Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini were real lookers. Also Brahms and Hemingway and just about every Civil War soldier.
27 Comments
@Anonymous fainan ur cute but 2 smart 4 me
@i could be ur girl fainan ur killing me with meera as your historical person i am actually considering petitioning for these 10 $dollars
@did see that coming... damn young stalin could get it tho.
@IcantbelieveImwritingabwogpostnope Just saying…any guy would be absolutely LUCKY to have Ms. Aria for a Valentine.
Sharm Sharm. Parmesan.
Have a happy Valentine’s
Gtbtb
^That haiku is terrible, but Aria’s wonderful. The end.
@get it fainan
@Hottie McHottie ARIA IS EVERYTHING I WANT AND MORE
@Sic Semper Tyrannis Aria is BEAUTIFUL. Too bad she’s not from real Virginia (but I wouldn’t hold that against her). Get it, girl!
@Anonymous laura does tell really good stories.
@Seattle? As long as he didn’t go to Lakeside
@Haha he definitely did
@he did not
@Sorry You’re right! He hangs out with them and is from the area so I forgot. Though he’s as obnoxious as most of the people from that school TBH
@why turn an ok thing into a gimmick? #vests #stop
@but wait in WHAT world is dancing on my own a guilty pleasure?? that’s a modern classic. we should study it in music hum. we should study it in lit hum. we should study it in everything
@high and quiet ew this wine and scotch tastes horrible
@youdabes, aria! i love you more than gilbert blythe.
@SS Wow. Aria Sharma you are too wonderful for words. If only I was an eligible young gentleman..
@Anonymous If only I “were” an eligible young gentleman.
You’re at Columbia. Learn how to use the subjunctive.
@SS #rude
@Anonymous #EnglishasafirstlanguagePrivilege
@BC 2015 @Gregory Peck mention: YES! I concur.
@j aria sharma is a gem (and Imdabes is a cinematic masterpiece)
@And for relaxing times Make it Suntory time.
@Anonymous Yeeaaahhhh Lo FISH
@Wait LdR’s Ride shoudn’t be a guilty pleasure but an anthem:
“I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy”
@"I vomited; he still tried kissing me" No, that’s just true love.