Today at 3 pm, officers from Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid gathered on College Walk to send Class of 2018 Regular Decision letters. This year, a total of 32,967 students applied—the third largest pool in Columbia’s history, though 1.5 percent fewer than last year’s. About 10 percent of them (3,298 students) applied early. Columbia admitted 2,291 applicants to CC and SEAS this […]
Friendly neighborhood peacock hanging around St. John’s, sitting around the back driveway on Morningside. Thanks, tipster. And to quote Joan Didion: “Seven years ago today we took the leis from the florist’s boxes and shook the water in which they were packaged onto the grass outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue. […]
Gwyneth Paltrow hates being normal almost as much as she hates gluten. (Time) How much is a passenger worth? Just under $200,000. (Sydney Morning Herald) You can’t trust the New York Times…again. Thanks, NSA! (Salon) Are you “unreservedly independent”? Perhaps you’re “bountifully pseudo-coupled.” Maybe even “graciously solitary”! How should you term your relationship? (Slate) Perfect beautiful […]
Keeping track of what your housing options are is almost as hard as figuring out which one to choose. We put together this list, based entirely on housing’s stats, of what you can expect to get based on your year and number. Hopefully it’s a little bit useful. Rising Sophomores Lottery number below 1000 Single […]
We don’t mean to be crude, but shit went down at the GSSC meeting last night. We sent the ebullient Joseph Milholland to check it out. In the Tuesday March 26 General Studies Student Council Meeting, during the time the council allots to take questions from those in attendance, a GS student brought it to […]
In keeping with the unofficial tradition of bring back alumni for Class Day, Columbia College has secured Dan Futterman, CC ’89, for the keynote address of Columbia College Class Day 2014, as announced in an email by senior class president Conan Cassidy (full email down below). Futterman is an award-winning actor and screenwriter, most well […]
Paula Franzese, Adjunct Professor in the Barnard Political Science Department (and alumna of Barnard and Columbia Law School), has two new books in the Columbia bookstore – A Short and Happy Guide to Being a College Student and A Short and Happy Guide to Being a Law Student. The books contain motivation, nuts and bolts […]
“Welcome back,” said Columbia as it threw twenty midterms and two term papers at you with all the grace of Rob Ford happening upon an innocent football. Antsy arts editor Madysen Luebke finds you non-Netflix/nutella ways to unwind. All Weekend: Don’t have the patience or attention span to watch a full length play but still […]
Around noon, today, Bacchanal announced that its Battle of the Bands, to determine one of the #THROWBACCHANAL openers, was a no-go. A comment promised: “There will still be a student opener to be decided upon by online form. Stay updated to fill out the form and decide who will be your student opener!” Fair enough; no student-run […]
Bwog’s token SEAS kid Kevin Chen reviews Columbia Dining’s latest online initiative: the Dine@CU iPhone app. On Monday, Dining released the Dine@CU iPhone app, which gives menus for each dining hall and general dining news. Built by Gilbert Feig, SEAS ’15, the app is an improvement over the Columbia Dining mobile site. When you open the […]
Less than a week ago, you were lying on a beach in Cancun/helping save the world/eating your mom’s food and powerstreaming Parks and Rec for the fortieth time. Deal with the bewilderment of the real world in the best possible way: with synths and Mediterranean food. This week, Live At Lerner brings you their tenth […]
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