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. […]

We love to become gradually disillusioned here at Columbia. Below, the slow downward spiral as midterm season, inconceivably, approaches and you’re forced to find a space to learn. The disillusionment begins.

Tonight at 7 pm in the Levien Gym, the volleyball team will have their Ivy League home opener match against UPenn.  Tonight’s match is the team’s Breast Cancer Awareness game.  The first 200 fans will get pink t-shirts and Fairway market is donating $1 to the Herbert Irving Cancer Center for every fan in attendance. […]

Found on Amsterdam night of October 3rd. Appears to be real or a really good fake. Niagara Falls, Ontario address.

Bacchanal presents the second annual ever-so-punnily-named Lowlapalooza , tomorrow, Saturday, October 5,  from 11 am to 6 pm. The lineup features entirely Columbia artists and bands, so come out and support your peers! The Price of Life Carnival will also be running alongside the music festival. So get your face painted while you feel bad about how musically […]

Looking for both free food *and* an old-fashioned way to celebrate the Indian Summer? Dying to take out those wingtip shoes/tea dress (what are those we don’t even know) out for a spin? Columbia has an answer for you classy, classy people. Head over to the CU Garden Party at 4 p.m. in front of […]

Barnard grad Ebonie Smith, BC’07, wears many hats–she is a music producer, sound engineer, and musician who both works as a producer for Atlantic Records and owns her very own independent music studio, Eudora House.  Ebonie is also the founder of Gender Amplified, a music festival which took place on Barnard’s campus last weekend.  Bwog […]