Columbia is an extremely small university, and sometimes it feels like everyone knows everyone. It is embarrassing but not that big a deal when your vague acquaintances and Facebook friends see you grinding against someone in a frat basement, but the additional danger is greater. What happens when you see someone in a professional position […]

We refreshed and refreshed and never received your daily app! It’s okay. Between checking SSOL and picking apart Book Culture, you probably didn’t even have time to fill it out. But it’s Saturday now—no more excuses. We’ve decided to extend the deadline a week! Here’s the link to the application (you could do it while you’re in […]

Two weeks in, and feelin’ fine. Or maybe not so fine. Not sure how you’re all feeling at this point in the semester, but we thought it was high time for the first BWB of the year. In all honesty, we were feeling a little homesick this week, so we took one Bwogger’s advice. What […]

Donald Trump finally admits that he believes Barack Obama was born in the United States — thanks for the validation! Now it must be true. (New York Times) Zika threat in Miami grows as the area of infected mosquitos triples. (CNN) Lady Gaga’s new album will be released in October. While the cover is just […]

In the following academic year, CourseWorks will switch from using Sakai (the CourseWorks we all know and sometimes-not-really love) to Canvas, a learning management system created by Instructure. Some classes have already made the switch, providing students with a glimpse of what is yet to come. While the site itself is pretty, the impending future […]

Bwog is a fan of music, as you may tell from our frequent playlists. We don’t often include classical music on those playlists but, maybe we should? Last night, new bwogger Tamara Barriot headed to the Miller Theater to check out renowned American composer Steve Reich (soon-to-turn 80!) with the group Ensemble Signals. What she heard […]

We bring you another piece from our Cool Older Sister publication, the Blue and White. Ben Schneider, CC ’17,  writes about the increasing participation in Greek life and what this means for the War on Fun. “I never expected to be part of a sorority because I did think it was antifeminist,” Blair Wilson, CC ‘18, […]

With the start of the new year, professors are already starting to get under our skin. However, new staffer Paola Ripoll is particularly sick of an odd request professors have been making lately—and she is not alone. It’s a new year here at Columbia University and for many students, that means a new year of an exorbitant amount […]

A new academic year is now in full swing, and you’re either still in the honeymoon period or already finding grievances with your roommates or suitemates. Maybe you’ll throw in the proverbial towel over the pans your roommate used without asking, or your suite has decided to buy a microwave that not everyone wants. The reality is, […]

The first Columbia football game of the season is this Saturday. Should you go? Should you care? What is college football even like at Columbia? Sports Editor Ross Chapman is here to enlighten you. For the last 50 years, Lions football has tried to turn a corner and become a consistently great, or at least […]

You may (or may not) remember that we released the application to become one of our Daily Editors last weekend. We’re seeking seven for the coming semester, one for each day of the week. If you considered applying, maybe copied the app into a Word document then let it fester for a few days, now is […]

Whether you love the shopping period or think it was invented by malevolent spirits plotting to turn you to the dark side, you’ll soon be free of its clammy, insistent clutches. After tomorrow, there will be no more strolling into a new class, picking up the syllabus, and then surfing B@B for the entire lecture. […]

The internet access of thousands of LinkNYC kiosks installed in the city last winter (intended to provide New Yorkers with a place to check the map or the weather, make a phone call, or charge their phones) will soon be switched off. People have been taking advantage of the kiosks to play loud music, consume drugs, and watch […]

A “career criminal” with a meat cleaver was shot yesterday in Midtown by NYPD members after they confronted him and strapped a boot to his car, causing him to go into a “blind rage.” (NY Daily News) Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, narrated a short film, released yesterday, for the New York Times on […]

The second Senior Night of the year is tonight, and the add/drop deadline is on Friday. Now is the moment of truth: are you going to sleep through your 8:40 tomorrow? Might as well drop it before you actually have to do anything for the class. Here’s a playlist for the drudgery of the school […]