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Phinal 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Crew Announced

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 72 Comments

We’d like to take a moment to emerge from our very bitter Butler shell to extend a genuine congratulations to the seniors who’ve been inducted to Phi Beta Kappa, aka the nation’s oldest honor society, aka a BFD. (And if you’re still wondering what PBK is, you probably don’t have to check for your name on the list. […]

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Paunching Fruit for 24 Hours

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 0 Comments

This afternoon at 5 pm, campus improv group Fruit Paunch begins their annual 24 hour comedy show on Low Plaza. Stop by anytime before 5 pm tomorrow for a dose of irreverent and mildly awkward humor before the onset of the dark night. If you need a reason more compelling than forcing Bob and Eli to reenact […]

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Senior Wisdom: Boris Vassilev

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 27 Comments

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Boris Vassilev, Rockville, MD (Originally Sofia, Bulgaria), Columbia College, Physics and Creative Writing (I did it for the money.) Claim to Fame? Fame: Bwog’s last surviving copy editor. The only Eastern European, transfer science and humanities double major on campus. My heart chambers fire out of order. Infamy: The set of Fiddler on […]

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Some Of These Things Are Not Like The Others: Rembrandt

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 4 Comments

Because there are few hells fresher than trying to memorize 1,000 PowerPoint slides of paintings you swear never even came up in class, we’ll be helping you study for your Art Hum exam this week with a closer look at some of the syllabus. In this next installment of SOTTANLTO Bwog’s Professional Photoshopper/Procrastinator Zach Kagan assures […]

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Quarto Magazine Launches Tonight!

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 3 Comments

Quarto, Columbia’s Undergraduate Journal of Creative Writing, releases its sixty-third annual issue tonight! To celebrate, they’re having a launch party from 9 to 11 pm in 501 Dodge complete with free food of the fancy cheese/sparkling apple juice variety. They also made this funky video (below) of people making triangles with their hands and/or scribbling things. […]

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Throwback Tunes: A Musical Study Guide for Lit Hum

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 6 Comments

Freshpeople, Bwog can’t believe you kids are already studying for your Lit Hum final! In honor of the big test, we’re recycling this gem of a post. Below, Bwog presents a playlist of songs with references to glorious works of our literary past from the second semester of the Lit Hum syllabus. ‘Njoy! The Beatles, “I […]

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From the Archives: Spoiler Alert

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 12 Comments

Still cramming for LitHum and CC? Did you fall asleep last night before you could finish reading Crime and Punishment? Bwog is here to help with another oldie-but-goodie from reading periods past. It all began when Bwog overheard this conversation: Freshman Girl: Hey, so how did Pride and Prejudice end? Freshman Boy: Oh, they get […]

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Bwoglines: Friendly Reminders Edition

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 0 Comments

The Knicks’ Tyson Chandler reminds us that one man’s weak defense is another man’s sweet new trophy—and also why it’s important to write acceptance speeches ahead of time. (NYDN) Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson reminds us that there’s a difference between elaboration and fabrication on your résumé; we’re still waiting on that CCE workshop. (Daily Intel) […]

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To Help You “Study”

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 5 Comments

In light of the fact that your CC final is tomorrow, and you’ve decided to take up a new television show been studying rigorously for the past three days, here is another reminder that you’re screwed prepared.

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Overheard: Spontaneous Emissions

By Bwog Staff on May 04, 2012 10 Comments

Live from Ruggles, a tipster reports overhearing the following coming from somewhere in the shaft: A few isolated and disjointed shrieks from maybe three voices, and then, “IT’S NOT PRIMAL SCREAM YOU STUPID FUCK!” Update (Friday, 11:30 am): Our correspondent, who has not moved since submitting this tip last night, reports that the exact same […]

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Finals Angst, Elevated To All New Levels

By Bwog Staff on May 03, 2012 12 Comments

A tipster spotted the following cry for help in the notoriously sucky Hamilton elevator:

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Don’t Forget To Eat And Get A Seat!

By Bwog Staff on May 03, 2012 2 Comments

At Midnight Breakfast and Orgo Night, respectively! Despite some date-drama, the pre-finals breakfast will in fact be held tonight, as per tradition. Head over to LeFrak for a superhero-themed meal at 11 pm if you’re a Barnard senior, 11:30 if you’re a Barnard non-senior, and 12 if you’re a pleb. Also tonight: grab a seat […]

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The Cathartic, Communal, Columbia Cry

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announcement
cu loves traditions
cu traditions
drown out the sounds of passing ambulances with your own voices
in which case congrats to you you're smart and will ace all your finals
nobody except nyu kids
primal scream
Reminder
there was one in wash square park this week but nobody went to that
unless you know
warning: ivy league shade
we hated even just typing that tag
you'll never know what tag we meant

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Bwog In Bed: Get Pumped Edition

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baby bend ova
bwog in bed
ew @ourselves
it’s the final push
let me see you take that final
never forget drake
soon you’re gonna be saying "it’s over it’s over i’m leaving I’m gone”
the final stretch
we’re so close fam

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Senior Wisdom: Shrey Jasani

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A little town called Midtown
Material trappings are dooming our society
Roti Rollllll
Sadly stress is the constant state of humans at CU
So few smiles to go around
That's a pretty deep answer to our oral sex vs cheese question

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From The Issue: Portrait Of The Artist

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'Utilize your youthful sexiness before it runs dry.'
All of our words are a labrynth
Erasing drawings is so stigmatized
Getting out of the labrynth
Has your sexiness run dry?
That pokemon fandom

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Tweet, Lion, Tweet

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"we couldn't beat the good Ivies" for some reason this is reminiscent of the ivy league snap story
bwog tries to understand sports
god bless the football team
we millenials only really comprehend or retain information when it's explained to us in tweet form

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Music To Sad Study To

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banks wore a cape when we saw her open for the weeknd
did you get the lana del rey reference in the title
is beach house still cool?
just tryna sad cry to joni
playlist
slow jamz
sorry if we just made you even more sad during finals

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In Defense Of: Not Studying At Butler

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butler
butler or panem? we just don't know
ido
In Defense Of
is betsy trying to stream jessica jones in the library
pro tip: find those black swivel chairs in butler 301 and use them as portable study stations so you don't need to fight over actual seats
tfw u start forgetting what ur bed looks like because u've slept in butler 301 for the past week
THE DREADED B-WORD
we bet some of you are at butler reading this right now

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Bwog In Bed: Key To Success Edition

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bwog in bed
bwog is trash for snapchat stories and historical musicals
forget bombing agrabah we want to move to agrabah so we can tap into the supply of young rich hot disney princes
if hamilton wrote the other 51 you can study for your goddamn environmental science final
overheard at barnard is a national treasure
THEY don't want you to know who THEY are
THEY don't want you to leave butler
THEY don't want you to succeed
when butler is still completely full at 4am and you lowkey lose your faith in the world

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