Two weeks in, and feelin’ fine. Or maybe not so fine. Not sure how you’re all feeling at this point in the semester, but we thought it was high time for the first BWB of the year. In all honesty, we were feeling a little homesick this week, so we took one Bwogger’s advice. What […]

Donald Trump finally admits that he believes Barack Obama was born in the United States — thanks for the validation! Now it must be true. (New York Times) Zika threat in Miami grows as the area of infected mosquitos triples. (CNN) Lady Gaga’s new album will be released in October. While the cover is just […]

In the following academic year, CourseWorks will switch from using Sakai (the CourseWorks we all know and sometimes-not-really love) to Canvas, a learning management system created by Instructure. Some classes have already made the switch, providing students with a glimpse of what is yet to come. While the site itself is pretty, the impending future […]

Bwog is a fan of music, as you may tell from our frequent playlists. We don’t often include classical music on those playlists but, maybe we should? Last night, new bwogger Tamara Barriot headed to the Miller Theater to check out renowned American composer Steve Reich (soon-to-turn 80!) with the group Ensemble Signals. What she heard […]

With the start of the new year, professors are already starting to get under our skin. However, new staffer Paola Ripoll is particularly sick of an odd request professors have been making lately—and she is not alone. It’s a new year here at Columbia University and for many students, that means a new year of an exorbitant amount […]

You may (or may not) remember that we released the application to become one of our Daily Editors last weekend. We’re seeking seven for the coming semester, one for each day of the week. If you considered applying, maybe copied the app into a Word document then let it fester for a few days, now is […]

Whether you love the shopping period or think it was invented by malevolent spirits plotting to turn you to the dark side, you’ll soon be free of its clammy, insistent clutches. After tomorrow, there will be no more strolling into a new class, picking up the syllabus, and then surfing B@B for the entire lecture. […]

The internet access of thousands of LinkNYC kiosks installed in the city last winter (intended to provide New Yorkers with a place to check the map or the weather, make a phone call, or charge their phones) will soon be switched off. People have been taking advantage of the kiosks to play loud music, consume drugs, and watch […]

A “career criminal” with a meat cleaver was shot yesterday in Midtown by NYPD members after they confronted him and strapped a boot to his car, causing him to go into a “blind rage.” (NY Daily News) Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, narrated a short film, released yesterday, for the New York Times on […]

The second Senior Night of the year is tonight, and the add/drop deadline is on Friday. Now is the moment of truth: are you going to sleep through your 8:40 tomorrow? Might as well drop it before you actually have to do anything for the class. Here’s a playlist for the drudgery of the school […]

Russian roulette: A Russian hacking group stole confidential medical information about American Olympic athletes and published the information online, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency. Simone Biles and the Williams sisters were among the victims. (CBS Sports) After his Monday night performance on Dancing with the Stars, swimmer/fibber Ryan Lochte couldn’t fox trot away from […]

We’re already a full week into the semester, and summer seems far behind us. So do we really have to complete those reports “required” by our internships? The presentations “required” by our grants? Did anything actually happen this summer? One Bwogger examines her failure to produce a 10-page final report (the culmination of three months’ work) […]

In case you’re a first-year, a transfer, or someone with no friends at Barnard: it was announced last spring that Barnard students are now able to swipe into JJ’s as part of their meal plans. When one Bwog staff writer ventured into JJ’s last week, she overheard two Columbia students behind her in line for […]

Are you an enthusiastic Barnard first-year several months from becoming jaded about the many problems of your college? Are you a belligerent upperclassman trying to remember why you decided to come to this school in the first place? Are you a Columbia student who has never been entirely sure what Barnard is and has become, […]

We are deep into shopping period, and there’s little our professors can say to get a laugh out of us. That doesn’t mean they won’t try. Thanks for the thought, professors. We thought we’d continue our tradition of compiling the best soundbites from the past week of classes to share with you, because we care […]