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Little-known fact: contrary to popular belief, Bwog does not stand for the Blue and White Blog, but for Brian Wagner, Original Gangster. Our second former Bwogger to share his wisdom: Brian Wagner, previous managing editor, gchat hero, and 95% of the reason Bwog did not crash on a daily basis for a year. Thanks, Brian. […]
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And another Wisdom as all the wisdom from your classes slowly leaves your brain: Will Hughes, who looked out for you on CCSC, yet admits to some participation in the War on Fun, along with a somewhat-secret online identity. Name, Hometown, School: Will Hughes, Coarsegold, CA, Columbia College, Math and English Claim to fame? Peer counseling […]
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A wild FRESHMAN appears! What will BWOG do? BWOG used CONVENIENT FEATURE WHERE WE ANSWER QUESTIONS. It’s super effective! Hi Mr. Bwog, My name is Chris. I am a freshman. I have a question. What happens to me after Saturday? Am I a sophomore? Or do I have to wait until June? All week this question has made me go […]
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Our next in the endless Senior Wisdoms parade: your CC salutatorian, who makes some very logical calculations.  Name, Hometown, School: Yoshiaki Ko, Millbrae, CA, CC (Neuroscience & Behavior) Claim to fame: Salutatorian! Also, pianist in the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange; you may find me often in the Lerner piano lounge, trying to learn some Schumann, for example. […]
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Need a study break/affirmation that the people around you are doing productive things with their time? New Columbia band TOX and GUEST, featuring students Eli Aleinikoff, Sahil Ansari, Jon Perkins, Emilie Schattman, and Corey Dansereau, have just released their first EP on — where else? — band camp. They would love for you to listen to […]
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Today’s first of who-knows-how-many Senior Wisdom: Sophie Flack, former professional ballet dancer, novelist, and GS graduate who has an entirely justified appreciation for Erik Gray. Name, Hometown, School: Sophie Flack, Watertown, MA (fun fact: my childhood home is less than two blocks from where bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev was hiding in a boat!), GS; English […]
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Just one more Music Hum final…. Bwogline: You go, Angelia Jolie. Finals tip: The Morton Williams gummy worms not only have smiles BUT little A’s stamped on them. Start inhaling them in the hope that ingesting A’s will be the same as receiving them from your professors. Procrastinate: Nostalgic seniors? This may make you cry. […]
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Listen up, seniors: it’s your Class Prez! Name, Hometown, School: Ryan “_________” Mandelbaum, Cedarhurst, New York, Columbia College Claim to fame? I’m “the fat one in the Carman video,” “the study guide guy,” “the email guy,” and “the sweater guy.” You may have seen me standing on a canoe in the Delaware River or on the radiator […]
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Don’t you hate sitting there hitting refresh on SSOL just hoping one person will drop out of that 15-person creative writing seminar?  Well, now you can stop hitting refresh and simply wait it out: there’s an automated waitlist!  That’s right, coming this fall (to instructors who choose to opt-in, including most non-core classes) all you have to […]
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J-school professor Michael Shapiro is at it again, trying to get people paid for journalism. First it was through his Kickstarter-darling, The Big Roundtable. Now it’s with a class of his. On May 9, they launched this thing called Project Wordsworth. Which makes Bwog either very happy, or very sad, depending how much poetry J-school […]
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In all the hours you’ve spent in Butler, surely a few times you’ve been captivated by the icy gaze of Dwight D. Bwog’s Perceptive Portraitist Angel Jiang explicates the portrait’s composition and subtext. The portrait of the man resides at the top of Butler Library’s monumental staircase. His gaze draws the line of sight upwards […]
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Hometown heroes Vampire Weekend took to Reddit this morning to promote their brand spanking new album, Modern Vampires of the City. Along with vital topics like salmon shorts selection and Ezra Koenig’s cameo on Girls, the bandmates also upped our collective street cred by chatting about Columbia for a bit. Turns out either Chris Baio or Chris Tomson didn’t […]
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