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BREAKING: SEAS Class Day Speaker is Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, SEAS ’82

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 26 Comments

Bwog has just learned that the Ursula Burns, SEAS ’82 (MS in mechanical engineering) and the chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, will be the featured speaker at the 2012 engineering school class day. Burns is the first African-American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company, according to an article published by Spec. The same […]

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Bucket List: Education, “Greening the Ghetto,” and Slate Magazine

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 5 Comments

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended: “University Lecture: Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament […]

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Bwog Sports Sunday: LINning

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 2 Comments

It’s impossible to talk about sports in New York this week without mentioning Knicks point guard sensation, Jeremy Lin. It also turns out it’s impossible to talk about Jeremy Lin without using a LINconcievable number of LINcredibly bad puns. Anyone who has turned on a TV or picked up a New York newspaper in the […]

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The Quiet Rooms of Casa Italiana

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Here’s yet another instance of some really important cultural things being totally free and right under our noses. The Silent Strength of Liu Xia is an exhibition at the Italian Academy of the work of house-arrested dissident Chinese photographer Liu Xia, wife of Nobel-winning poet Liu Xiaobo. Conor Skelding stepped inside. I’d never been inside Casa Italiana […]

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Housingmaster: Finding a Friend

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 13 Comments

As we mentioned yesterday, we’re open to answering your housing questions. Send us some more either via e-mail (housing@bwog.com) or in the comments! Q: How do you bring up the topic of housing to a potential suitemate? A: Housing angst is real. Who wants to vulnerably put oneself out there only to risk rejection and shame? […]

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Lost: White scarf with colorful bear prints

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Lost my white scarf printed with lots of bears sometime on Thursday 2/16, possibly in Hamilton 6th floor, Schermerhorn 6th floor, or John Jay dining hall. Important for sentimental reasons. If found, please contact nl2294@columbia.edu, it’s very special to me.

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Bwog Meeting Tonight!

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 1 Comments

“What’s there to do in this one horse town on a mid-February Sunday’s evening?” If someone asks you this question today, you already know the answer: attend the Bwog meeting in Lerner SGO at 7 pm and eat Bwog’s free food! Come to make or take pitches, discuss new ideas, or just loiter. We’re happy […]

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LectureHop: Speak, Memory… Or If You Don’t Feel Like It That’s Chill Too

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 2 Comments

Focus on summoning your absolute best memory. Relive your happiest moment. Do you have it in mind? Good. Now, what if it never actually took place?! Bwog gray matter enthusiast Bijan Samareh joined Dr. S. Matthew Liao for a lecture in the rafters of Schermerhorn to engage in just such speculation. Is the lingering memory […]

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In Defense of… Dumbphones

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 8 Comments

Are you reading this on your iPhone? Well, maybe you shouldn’t be! Bwog is back to defend the seemingly indefensible, and today, resident Luddite Raphaelle Debenedetti makes the case for the dumbphone. Since it’s not New Jersey, it won’t be our most hopeless battle yet. “Are you two texting each other?” asked the curiously blunt waiter at […]

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Bwoglines: Skipping Town Edition

By Bwog Staff on Feb 19, 2012 0 Comments

Rome: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York was appointed a Catholic Cardinal this weekend. Red hats abound. (NYT) Montauk: Gawker profiles one of the most creative and implausible con artists in recent memory, the so-called “Montauk Grifter.” Users of OkCupid: you’ve been warned. (Gawker) China: The people who make your iPad can’t afford your iPad. […]

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Worried About Housing? Bwog Can Help

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2012 48 Comments

We’re on your side, Columbians. We give you the news, engage in relevant and intellectual debates, and we always answer your questions, even when they’re kinda awkward. And we know that aside from PrezBo’s hair, not much is more mystifying to the student body than the housing lottery. We have always strived to give you […]

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AskBwog: Morningside Munchies

By Bwog Staff on Feb 18, 2012 2 Comments

Bwog recently received this email from someone who may or may not have been sober, and our interest (and appetite) was piqued. Dear Bwog, I feel like doing something crazy this weekend. Are there any places where, if I manage to eat a crazy amount of food, I get my picture on a wall or […]

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Bwog Meeting Tonight!

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bwog meeting tonight
if you haven't heard it yet wyd
meeting announcement
pillow talk
PSA: the video is.... interesting.....
the full lyrics to this song are BOLD
zayn and gigi forever
zayn and gigi forever..... is already a tag in existence

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This Week In The Arts: Still No Hamilton

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arts bucketlist
Conflabbergation.... is not a word
free culture is the best culture
it's not urban ny but it'll do for the week
lotsa jazz
schapiro is busy this week
thursday looks LITTTT
welcome to columbia we love jazz

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2Girls1Snack: Milkshakes

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2girls1snack
it's fucking cold
mcflurries are available in mcdonalds across the world
milkshakes
once withdrew money from bank account explicitly to buy a mcflurry while extremely high
veganism vs vegetarianism
what's cooler than being cool? ice cold
yes mcdonalds

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Bwoglines: What To Look Forward To Edition

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"what do i have to look forward to?" "uhhhh so much"
bwoglines
can apple music be over soon pls
had to switch the flow up on you
if jess and rory don't reunite we're going to deviled-egg the Netflix headquarters
look out spotify
onto better things
sansa needs a break like damn
so extra
so much to live for!!
the future
what a time to be alive quite honestly

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What Can Happen In 10 Years At Columbia

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Bwog turns 10
lol fuck sorority recruitment
only counting consecutive years of existence without breaks Bwog has been around almost as long as Beta
the pasta line at ferris only takes 15 minutes if you go at the wrong time
think of all the bubble tea
we see the milestones backwards run when on this site we gaze

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“We Can’t Post That!”

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"no"
awful posts
half of these got actually got written up
imagine if we actually got an interview with Head Groundskeeper / Tarp-Layer William MacDougal
more fan fic
screw dunkin' donuts and their bernie sanders supporting customers
shit-posting is our forte
shots in butler
thank god these never saw the light of day
we can't post that

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Those Comments Are Pretty Fucked Up (A Found Poem)

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does bwog today have its shit together more or less than it did in 2006?
someone works for spec? really? we thought just robots worked for spec
tbt to when commenting 'FIRST' on posts was still a cool thing to do
this is truly a showcase of the finest intellectual capacity columbia students have to offer
we do actually have a copy editor now
we don't know the context for most of these and we're not sure we want to

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10 Bwogtastic Bwog Articles From 10 Years Of Bwog

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Best comments
Bwog history
Bwog is ten
David Foster Wallace might not be a plus
Dredging up old memories
Making fun of NYU students
Out of context political cartoons
Svokos-era Bwog
When blogs were less subtle

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