Attention first years! Bwog knows you’ve probably grown tired of the drabness of your Carman prison cell dorm room, but we have good news! There is currently a poster sale being held on College Walk to supply you with all of your wall-adorning needs. Get ready to grapple with one of the toughest questions of first […]

In our newest feature, HolidayHop, Bwog will explain religious holidays so you don’t have to pretend to understand them. Early this morning, the first of Shawwal, the tenth month in the Islamic calendar, Muslims across the world awoke for the fajr, the pre-dawn prayers. Then, for the first time in 30 days (since the start […]

Though incomparable to the crowd at their Roger the talking squirrel video (claymation is cool!) screened at Barnard, the Columbia EcoReps tour brought out 12 starry-eyed freshpeople, from CC, BC, and GS. Anna Etra explains their latest initiatives for saving the planet for the rest of you environmentally sensitive ’14ers. Two CC seniors led the […]

A tipster forwarded us this email that was sent out to the Computer Science department mailing list. Students with poor food storage habits, you have been warned! hi all, the refrigerator in the CS lounge is disgusting; the smell of rotting food hits you in the face when opening the door, and we can make […]

It’s helpful to have a job when you’re a broke college student – preferably one that doesn’t require you to take the subway. To help you out on your quest for employment, we did a little legwork and found out who’s hiring in Morningside. Ricky’s (114th & Bway) is looking for all positions, including stylists. […]

The friends and students of one of Bwog’s favorite professors, Karl Kroeber, have started a blog in his remembrance. Send in your favorite memories! LA prison unveils new zapper to control rowdy inmates. Florida pastor Terry Jones may or may not burn Korans. Artist Amir Baradaran discovers that cab drivers don’t want to be on […]

Looks like the trees on Philosophy lawn got a makeover.

In case you haven’t dined at Ferris or needed an Add/Drop form yet, you might not have seen Lerner 4 & 5’s newest look:

At the Package Center: After foolishly spending too much for stamps in the stamps machine, a twitchy freshperson holds up the envelope and asks an employee: “Where does the stamp go?”

During filming, a Bwogger approached a GG tech person and asked which characters were coming to Barnard. “None of them,” the tech-lady replied. “We’re just pretending they go to Columbia.” UPDATE: More pictures from the filming, this time of Serena (!) thanks to the quick lenswork of Elissa Mendez-Renk:

New classes, new freshpeople, and now a new Morningside. They’ve changed everything! Bwog can hardly recognize the place. On the decorative front: There are the flags — and not just the new ones on Furnald and Hartley Lawns. Lehman Lawn has recently acquired four in yellow, green, red and blue — one for each year. Class […]

ZagatBuzz is giving away an $100 gift certificate for Mel’s to the first person who guesses the number of lightbulbs in the sign. Just email buzz@zagat.com with “Mel’s Bar and Burger” in the subject line, along with your guess. Start counting!!

In our newest feature, HolidayHop, Bwog will explain religious holidays so you don’t have to pretend to understand them. Tekiah… Shevarim Teruah… Tekiah… These Hebrew words are spoken between blasts blown from the shofar, a ram’s horn. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, the sounding of the shofar is meant to wake Jews from […]

Junior and senior ladeez just received an email from Student Affairs with the following subject line:

The first two days are up. Your profs did what they could to hook you in. Here are the highlights from the crazy geniuses who walk among us. Keep ’em coming! Adam Cannon, Intro to Computer Science/Programming-Java “Cheating is like pornography; you know it when you see it.” Padma Desai, Principles of Economics Desai: “Do […]