Welcome to Columbia and Barnard, Class of 2024!

If you’re looking for a place close to campus and are ready to live in a double, look no further than 600, the baby of the 600s! 

Once again, Editor in Chief Isabel Sepúlveda is correct and once again, she will elaborate.

Staff Writer Alyse Rovner is passionate about Joe Coffee Company—its amazing lattes, americanos, cappuccinos, etc.—and the incredible people who work there. Joe Coffee Company stores have been temporarily closed in response to COVID-19 and they could use your support. 

If you can’t beat them, zoom with them.

Last semester, Editor in Chief Isabel Sepúlveda (along with Science Editor Sarah Braner) started a book club with her friends and she thinks you should too.

Senior Staff Writer Henry Golub received a bad lottery number. He reviews the dorm he will likely wind up in.

Solo dining is an aspect of adulting that takes a minute to get used to. But eating alone can be meditative, productive, melancholy, exciting, and more! 

For sophomores wanting to recreate their freshman year, but in a single and also while being left alone, Furnald is the one for you. For incoming freshmen skeptical of the promised “social scene” of Carman and the enigma that is the LLC: Furnald awaits.

Bwog kindly reminds you to read Bwog at home, please!

News Editor Lauren Kahme, delves into the many uncomfortable situations you will inevitably encounter in your local supermarket over the course of this semester.

Cons: technical difficulties. Pros: you could be the first person to go to class on a swing set (in your own yard of course).

Let’s meet the next guest in our Major Spotlight’s lineup–Astrophysics! An impressive-sounding name to make people you meet say “oh, wow!”, but still disappoint your parents that you’re not an engineer. Though the major still needs to be petitioned for at Barnard, it still holds a special place in our hearts.

Bwog Staffwriter, alongside her three other friends, on a whim applied to be a hair model via a posting in the Barnard Works job portal. The staff writer was denied the position, however, her friends were all hired. Here she provides insight on what life as a reject is like…

Guest Writer Ashley Zhang informs us that “no longer plagued by its fire-ridden past and only hindered by its lack of AC, Ruggles is having quite the moment.”