Need a finals boost? Be adventurous. Bwog freelancer Armin Rosen explores your options. If having to wake up at 8:30 in the morning four days a week for the past three months has taught me anything, it’s that getting through college is going to require some serious drug abuse. And if this fairly commonsensical realization […]

Bwog passed by these folks last night at around 11:00PM… then 1:00 AM…and then noon…go get the kids cookies or something, being funny for a whole day is hungry work.  

Today, the 6th installment in our Senior Wisdom series…bringing you a bunch of ’07ers you should have met but won’t have time to.  Claims to fame:    Wearing an LLBean backpack with my initials (HAG) monogrammed on the back for most of 3rd and 4th grade, living as an RA in McBain as a SENIOR […]

While you were basking in the end of the first day of exams, a ton of your classmates were downtown at a swanky Vietnamese restaurant…yelling their lungs out and shutting it down. Bwog stopped by a Saigon Grill protest earlier, but it was only a small picket, part of an ongoing two-month protest by delivery […]

Spotted in Lerner: Matthew Fox used to sell meal plans and dining dollars. Quoth his visage: “You may want me to get LOST on Class Day, but I can’t get enough of the Ferris Booth Lunch Special! Sign up online for your plan today!” We’re not sure how many people present on Class Day could […]

Jester prankster Alex Weinberg, who may or may not be making this all up, documents what happens when you win at puzzling. UPDATE, 12:07 PM: Additional photographical evidence has been located!  The cryptic ThemEarthMeteors puzzles began to pop up again this spring, stapled in dramatic “M’s” along bulletin boards in Mudd and on the semi-permanent […]

CTV’s got Core review sessions for Lit Hum (with Mark Cohen) and Frontiers (with Darcy Kelley), with Music Hum to come tomorrow at 6PM on Channel 37! Also having to do with recorded stuff, except things that you actually want to listen to, Spec has a web-only story about the RIAA’s latest shenanigans: they’ve thrown […]

Bwog has been procrastinating! (Is that redundant?) We even made a list of how we recommend you procrastinate, to which you shall contribute. Open thread time! – Make Bwog posts – Send in tips to Bwog – Watch episodes of South Park – Go to the horsey ride track in Nassau County and be hit on […]

Yesterday was a perfect day in our ever-more perfect union for a perfect sport:  kickball. Emma Jacobs writes in that WKCR crushed WBAR in the semi-annual Station Game, held in Central Park. The final score was 13-2, ‘KCR.  Unfortunately WBAR members forgot to bring the trophy.  They did, however, remember their vintage boombox.  Which station’s […]

Ah, the bittersweetness of perspective…here’s the next installment of Bwog’s Senior Wisdom series.  This time, on- and off-campus journalist Jimmy Vielkind C’07 is in the hot seat. Claims to fame: As a Spectator reporter and later city editor, training editor, and contributing editor, I forced a genuine public debate about Columbia’s proposed Manhattanville expansion. I also […]

Senior Addison Anderson cheers up Bwog:  “Everyone should know that there is a box of free NYC condoms at the main desk in Lerner.  Everyone should also know that I am now walking around with a whole bunch of condoms and am ready to go.”

Taking the tempera to the walls of McIntosh just wasn’t enough to satisfy a (few) vandal(s). A tipster alerted Bwog to the brightly colored trails currently on the scaffolding at the south side of Butler Library. The tipster speculated students (who else?) could have heaved paint out of the top floor windows.  Bwog is unsure […]

Overheard on College Walk, late last night:  Guy: Well YOU go to Columbia! Shouldn’t YOU know where all the parties are? Girl: Yeah. But it’s just a shame you’re not here on Orgo Night. Guy: What is it? Wait- doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t want to go. Girl: (angrily) Well its not like you would have […]

If you managed to swing by the hooplah that happened by the steps earlier this evening, perhaps you were welcomed by Weezer’s Pinkerton album blaring from a laptop while 15 or so students were dancing under the tented sheets. Perhaps you were also offered a loaf of bread by some guy in a Mardi Gras […]

Too busy to make it to the Met? Butler displays are a poor substitute, but will do for a few minutes’ distraction. Bwog rookie Rob Stenson critiques the latest.  It’s exhibition installation season at Columbia, with first year MFAs in Schermerhorn (from high-art pornography to cable TV), and a senior thesis show in Dodge (exhibition […]