Last year, we posted excerpts from a Harvard Crimson editorial, “I Am Fine,” and you responded with extraordinary sympathy and support in the comments. Two stories from the most recent of the edition of The Eye, written by Wilfred Chan, CC’13, and Sarah Ngu, CC’12, similarly resonated with us.  You can read an abridged version below, […]

For the latest installment of RoomHop, Bwog’s multi-dimensional analyst Conor Skelding visited the McBain double of two mathematical minds.  “The lamps that the rooms come with are kinda gross,” Jonathon Balsano, SEAS ’14, matter-of-factly states. Fellow McBain double dweller Sam Engel, CC ‘ 14, jumps in, “That nasty light didn’t really reach the corner of the room.” […]

Black compact sony cybershot in a black case dropped at tree lighting. If you really want the camera you can have it, I just really hope I can get the memory card back. Since it’s the holidays, I’ll get you some hot apple cider. Email rrs2141@columbia.edu

Grab your black eyeliner and break out the lace. Tomorrow night WBAR presents Goth Prom 1986, a free concert featuring an intoxicating brew of hardcore, garage-rock, and beats by Balam Acab, Purling Hiss, Leather, and RL Grime in the Diana Event Oval from 7 to 11:30 pm. The event is open to the public, so feel free to […]

When they’re not headbanging or falling for our anecdote baiting, Columbia faculty enjoy getting dirty in the lab. Bwog takes a moment to look back on this week in science. Headlines were compiled by pillow talk specialist Zach Kagan. A pair of Columbia graduates have designed a solar-powered pillow lamp for areas of the world where electricity is scarce. The LuminAID packs flat but […]

Like in a scene taken from a fairy tale, these fledglings took a respite from dodging Broadway traffic and overeager toddlers. One onlooker was colored incredulous, “I feel like I’m in a Disney movie or something.” Fly up and away little birds, the shadow grows longer.

At 9:55 am this morning, Bwog received an anonymous tip that a massive banner had just been unfurled from the windows of Butler that read, “It’s going to be OK. You’re not alone.” Before we had a chance to document this magnanimous act, at 10:03 am the same tipster reported that the poster had been […]

Bwog’s rookie reviewer Alex Katz crossed Broadway to see CMTS’s first show of the season.  Wednesday evening, I listened to the premiere of CMTS’s Autumn Songs, playing in Roone Alredge Auditorium. The powerful vocal cast, striking set, and extraordinary music kept a show lacking in plot from withering like the winter, but blossoming like the […]

The New York Post, tone-deaf as ever, reports the story with the headline “Columbia Frat Honcho Jailed.” Walter Perry, the titular honcho, is accused of stealing $650,000 from Saint Anthony’s over six years, and has been sentenced to at least 24 months of jail time. It is not clear how the money was obtained, but […]

In a constant search for Morningside’s finest, Bwog was eager to weigh in when a dispute arose about the best cookie in the neighborhood. Secretary of Snack Alison Herman followed the aroma wafting over Morningside Park and investigated. After an honorable mention of Levain Bakery in our Bwog Thanksgiving, an anonymous tipster indignantly called us out on our […]

Cash-strapped urbanites may soon find work in the new convenience economy, which crowdsources temporary personal assistant tasks. Among the guinea pigs is an Arts Initiative coordinator, who claims its merits are more than monetary. (Observer) Whoever said field trips were dead? One visiting professor at GSAPP took his class to a banana ripening plant and […]

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… From the genius who brought you BwogWeather, comes Hard Core: A Columbian Odyssey. The show traces Pat Blute’s whimsical adventure one man’s grueling odyssey home after he finds himself stranded. He must survive using only his extensive knowledge of the core. The new project already features footage of the Australian Outback, Thailand, and […]

Don’t forget to head outside into the winter chill and listen to Columbia’s many a cappella groups sing and faculty and students speak at the annual Yule Log Ceremony, taking place from 6 to 7 pm on college walk. At 7 pm, the tree lights go up during the Tree Lighting Ceremony. Head back into […]

Every week The Columbia Bartending Agency provides protips on how to get your crunk on with greater style, precision, and knowledge. In preparation for the final weekend before finals sink their fangs your our soul, learn something about your pal, tequila. Although the next few weeks will be dominated by information overload, we thought it would […]

You may remember that Columbia is one of the participants in Mayor Bloomberg’s much-publicized competition for the construction of a new science and engineering campus (or two!) somewhere within New York. According to DNA info, Bloomberg recently hinted that of the original seven applications, four have made it past the first cut—though he quickly and mysteriously […]