On the last day, professors like to make some sort of concluding remarks. Whether emotional, full of advice, or just plain weird, we’ve collected some of the best things your professors have said to share with you.   “I’ve never seen this before I’m just making it up” – Math Methods for Economics, Sharon Harrison “I’m […]

More senior wisdom comes from Wong Hui Yu, CC’s artsy anthropoligical art historian!  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Wong Hui Yu, Columbia College, Art History Major and Anthropology concentrator, Singapore. Claim to fame: Friendly coordinator of about a year’s worth of figure models in Dodge 501 sketch sessions. Profferer of loose bits of advice in the darkroom on […]

Next up on our Senior Wisdom lineup is Barnard’s Alexandra Warrick, famous for prize-winning and Latenite-ing.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Alexandra Warrick, Barnard College, Film and English, New York City (I grew up by the 72nd street stop.) Claim to fame: I won the Andrew Sarris Prize for a thesis on Tim and Eric, Eric Andre and […]

Bwogline: On Wednesday, President Donald Trump met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to discuss possibilities for creating peace between Israelis and Palestinians. (New York Times) Study Tip: Make a study schedule for the next couple days and make sure to allow yourselves break time! It feels like a waste of time, but it actually really helps. Music: It […]

Next up in our Senior Wisdom series, we have Yadir Lakehal – who is meme famous and 3D prints food. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Yadir Lakehal, SEAS, Mechanical Engineering 3-2 Program, Casablanca, Morocco Claim to fame: Most of my friends know me as the dude who 3D prints food in the first floor of Mudd, but my […]

The Columbia Women’s Water Polo team started from the bottom, and climbed their way to nationals. Here is their story.  Amy Gong Liu started the year as the captain of the Women’s Water Polo club team. She was also the only member of the Women’s Water Polo club team. “It was just me at the […]

Our next senior wisdom comes from Sophie Laruelle who wants you to get off your phone (after reading this).  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Sophie Therese Laruelle/CC/Music/New York City!! JK Westchester. Ok……Scarsdale. Claim to fame: Over the past four years, I’ve played everything from a demonic environmentalist to an incestuous queen to a frisky CUMB member to Jeb […]

A group of Barnard Speaking Fellows hosted an event last night in honor of the launch of their new podcast, “The Speakeasy”. Betsy Ladyzhets, Bwog Editor and Writing Fellow, attended the event, and was both entranced and inspired by the podcast’s words. Last night, a group of Barnard Speaking Fellows led by Allison Emmet (BC […]

In our second senior wisdom today, Paulina Mangubat talks about memes and wise things.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Paulina Mangubat, Barnard College, political science and East Asian studies, Phoenix, AZ Claim to fame: In a past life, I worked for Spectator, where I appropriated the Bored@Butler “campus discourse” meme and transformed it into a branding strategy. Bored@Butler […]

Read another senior wisdom to learn how to be wise! Rachel Ford shares a few things. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Rachel Ford, Barnard, MESAAS, Cumberland, RI Claim to fame: Former Personnel Manager of CUMB who herded sheeple I love. Former McAC chair who planned Barnard traditions. Left a freshman who joined a band trip under false pretenses […]

Bwogline: The UK and EU are arguing over a Brexit negotiation. Brexit Secretary David Davis says that the UK won’t pay a 100 billion euro fee as the “divorce bill.” (BBC) Study tip: Get started on things early so you won’t be stressed near the deadline. This might seem like something really obvious to say, […]

Taking some time off of studying? Blast off into another installment of Senior Wisdoms featuring the stellar Keenan Albee! Name, School, Major, Hometown: Keenan Albee, SEAS, Mechanical Engineering, Boring, MD (Yes, it exists.) Claim to fame: I was one of the founders and served as Co-President for the Columbia Space Initiative (shout-out to Julia and the space bois). […]

A team of five sophomores from Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science is currently on course to endow the entrances to Butler 209 with bidirectional movement sensors to collect data for Seatz, a new Columbia Libraries seat-tracking app. An older app, CU Density, utilized WiFi data via campus routers to estimate the […]

Today seems like the perfect day to get free stuff in the most unusual of places! Butler’s Room of Requirement has suddenly appeared and knows exactly what you need. In Butler from 6-10 pm tonight, Stressbusters will be in Butler to give free neck and back rubs! We know that your nose will be in […]

Early this afternoon, Barnard students and staff received an email from Interim President and COO Rob Goldberg on a new Council on Diversity and Inclusion. This Council is being established as a result of the Presidential Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion’s work over the past year. Its goals include to “expand the dialogue about […]