In case you missed the opportunity to achieve immortal kleos at last night’s pillowfight, Bwog invites you to relive the madness with this gratuitous gallery of gory photographs: Two combatants reflect on their conquests: Girl 1: ”OUR PILLOWS ARE STAINED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO CHALLENGED US” Girl 2: ”But like, actually though….I’m not sleeping on […]
Zuzana Giertlova dons her detective hat and pigs out. Read this and more in the April issue of The Blue & White, on campus this week! Rumor had it there was a pig living in a University-owned building somewhere in the city. The Blue & White took it upon themselves to investigate, and set out […]
It was a pretty dark night for everyone. Well, at least for all these people. Some early risers (or never-actually-went-to-sleep-ers) were greeted with images of the aftermath this morning, Below, glimpses of some secrets Butler didn’t hide fast enough from the light of day.
Senator Schumer fought to keep beer cheap. (NYPost) The Empire State building went green. (Reuters) Mr. Normal took France. (Daily Intel) Our part of Broadway got a reality check. (NYT) Procrastinating for your 1 pm final became a whole lot easier. (Buzzfeed) Excuse to meta-link via Dark Night tipster
You’re miserable. We’re miserable. The guy who’ll have to kick us all out of 210 from 7 to 8 am is preemptively miserable on behalf of everyone involved. As per tradition, we took this dark and dreary night as an opportunity to traipse through Butler and photograph the anguish. Send your own photos of the […]
Name, Hometown, School, Major: David Spencer Seconi; Rochester (the Roc), NY; Columbia College, History. Claim to Fame: The one I tell my parents: bringing Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to campus my junior year was a wild ride. I raised over $7k and organized a multitude of student groups/faculty/campus security in order to bring him to Lerner Hall […]
Name, Hometown, School, Major: Mario Gabriele, London, UK, Columbia College Claim to Fame: My time in Morningside was pretty devoid of fame, though I did stumble into a little infamy while abroad in Nepal. An angry middle-aged villager in the Himalayas is not fond of me…I called him a naughty man in nepali (never say that), he […]
Name, Hometown, School, Major: Jacob Rice, Oakland, CA, CC, Theater and Astrophysics Claim to Fame? I think I may be the only person to graduate Columbia with a double major in theater and astrophysics, but most people know me as the loud kid who looks kind of like Andy Samberg. Where are you going? I’m doing a theater […]
Name, Hometown, School, Major: Zach Sims, Old Greenwich (CT), CC Claim to Fame: Dropped out after junior year to found Codecademy, a startup focused on teaching the world to learn to code. We count Mayor Bloomberg and The White House among our 1m+ users. Where are you going? I’m already gone (but our offices are in SoHo so […]
If you’ve been cooped up in Butler for the past week like we have, you’ve probably forgotten how to use your voice/form words/engage with others. That’s okay. For your sake, and for that of the 2015ers, we’ll repost our comprehensive guide to Columbia’s loudest and most transient school tradition. Finals got you down? Then […]
Name, Hometown, School, Major: Alex Frouman, Larchmont NY, Columbia College, math major, econ concentration Claim to Fame? I might have been your RA, your TA, or your senator Where are you going? I’m volunteering at a school for troubled teens this summer and then going to Oxford for an MPhil in economics on a scholarship—i.e. for free. Three […]
We’re going on another Senior Wisdom bender for the next two hours. Enjoy, and play nice in the comments! Name, Hometown, School, Major: Valerie Pinkerton, Toledo, Ohio, Columbia College, Triple Concentrating in E3B, Economics, Political Science Claim to Fame? Effusive COÖP leader, Valedictator of Bach Society (sorry I’m not sorry about “bringin’ sexy Bach’), Greenborough house coordinator, […]
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