Yesterday, a bunch of pioneering SEAS students took over a flight of stairs in Lerner to simultaneously create music and annoy everybody trying to study. A Bwog staffer happened upon this magical set of stairs and made some pretty impressive music for your enjoyment; it was like that scene from “Big” but definitely worse. Unfortunately, the musical stairs were removed […]

Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba opened with the largest IPO in history at $25 billion. The fancy guys in suits who underwrote the stock sale will take home more than $300 million. (Yahoo!/Reuters) A British finance guy bet 900,000 pounds that Scotland would choose to remain part of the UK. He was right. His reward? 1,093,333.33 […]

Third weekend of school and the weather is still nice enough to try new things or stick with your weekend routine. However (seemingly) blasé or out of the ordinary, we want to hear about how you choose to spend the next weekend at tips@bwog.com.  Notes from those feeling socially adventurous:  “Tinder date went well. No shame.” […]

Bwog received a tip this evening about missing keys with this description: “two keys on a teal carabiner with a wooden heart keychain and a tap shoe keychain.” These keys were most likely left on the third floor of Barnard Hall or in Ferris Booth. Be on the lookout!

A Bwog tradition is back for the 2014-2015 year – and we’re kicking it off with a classic treat…and with new definitions of  the gender roles this title insinuates, because feminism. Foodies Ross Chapman (the champion male taking on this challenge) and Anastasiya Vasilyeva spent their weekend scouring our beloved Morningside to discern the best brownie […]

Spent yesterday cooped up in Butler instead of marching the streets of New York? No fear, Bwog is here to bring out the activist in everyone! Fellow student Jo Chiang shares with us some snaps of her experience at the historic march yesterday, where an estimated 300 plus of the 300,000 plus total marchers were Columbia students. […]

Be sure to order the new mattress heartthrob Ashton Kutcher claims to be comfy (via his generous investments). Does sleeping on the same latex bed product as him mean that you can brag to friends you’ve slept with Ashton? (Fortune) Newest publication from a feminist American Canadian author Barnard women are sure to rave about! (New York […]

McBain is barely capable of sustaining human life, let alone wildlife. However, falling ceilings and ridiculous renovations somehow didn’t discourage a curious raccoon from moving in. Earlier this week, an anonymous Bwogger sent in the following tip about Mc6’s new friendly critter: “The McBain 7 & 8 renovations have seemed to displace a lot of creatures. They have […]

Today was the official Sandwich Ambassador candidate debate. Bwog sent Joseph Milholland, Satow Room Chief and Sandwich Fan, to cover the event. It was less than exciting. At the beginning of the scheduled half hour for the Sandwich Ambassador Debate, only one candidate, first-year Joshua Burton, had shown up in the Satow Room. Of the […]

Do you remember the 21st night of September? You will if you come to the weekly Bwog meeting tonight at 7 PM in the SGO in Lerner. Come share some snacks and pitch some ideas with all your favorite Bwoggers. Sharing Secrets via Shutterstock.

Finished that paper a day early with nothing to do today? Have a dying urge to see Mayor Bill de Blasio’s face? Simply need an excuse to break outside the campus bubble? Have no fear fellow Columbians, because Bwog has the solution. Attend the People’s Climate March today and show your support at the summit on climate change. […]

It’s what we’ve all been waiting for: the third phase of The High Line opens today for all the nature freaks lovers out there. (New York Times) Ice Bucket Challenge gone wrong? A Kentucky firefighter was electrocuted from nearby power lines while helping out a university marching band. (Yahoo! News) The U.S. coast guard offloaded over 719 kilos of cocaine, […]

Social Media Scholar Maia Berlow went into the uncharted territory of discovering the allure behind becoming a Facebook celeb. You know ’em, you love ’em, or you love to hate ’em (but really secretly love them because they make the group so much better). Every grade has them. Those kids that post incessantly on the admitted […]

“Come, [NSOP bracelet], you too must die. Why moan about it so? / Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you.” – Homer, The Iliad If we had done our Iliad reading when we were actually supposed to, maybe we could have found comfort in the wise words of Homer. Instead, we found this […]

This past Wednesday evening from 7-9, Women Poets at Barnard hosted a public reading where the winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize read her poetry. Possible poet Caroline Lee was in attendance. Since 1986, the Barnard Women Poets Prize has been awarded biannually for exceptional books of poetry written by female poets. This year, […]