Because sportsball is cool once every four years!

Full disclosure: the title of this piece was originally going to be How To Surreptitiously Watch the World Cup on Campus. After all, it’s poor luck that the most viewed sporting event in the world happens to fall during finals week, rather than the halcyon days of summer as it usually does; and the good people at FIFA aren’t kind enough to reschedule the games around our class times.

Of course, we students have our usual litany of tech-savvy tricks: split-screening the games with our notes, or even propping up our phone on our laptop in a hackneyed, on-the-go dual monitor setup:

But that’s not the story of this World Cup. Professors are people too—and they’re just as invested in who manages to score goals (and who doesn’t)—and just as stricken by games being scheduled during class time. More often than not, we’ve seen classes watching the World Cup together:

Or watching it above a rousing game of foosball in Lerner:

If you want to watch the World Cup, whether inconspicuously in class (which Bwog does not officially endorse) or with your friends, your Columbia UNI gives access to Spectrum for free here!

Soccer ball via Wikimedia Commons

World Cup on campus via Bwog Staff