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And so it ends—not with a bang, but with a whimper—the last semester of the first decade of the new millennium. And if you needed more roundabout and somewhat forced catharsis than that, we asked for your professors’ closing remarks, and here is a collection of the most outstanding. Feel free to leave any we […]

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Today is the last day of class. Nuggets, CULPA and otherwise, abound! As per tradition, at the end of the semester we want to hear your professor’s closing remarks. Your professors will say something (they read Bwog! they know what’s up). If it’s mundane/erotic/humorous or pithy in any form, pass it on to tips@bwog.com, or […]

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It’s the last day of (okay, okay, Tuesday/Thursday) class! As we bid the fall semester farewell, your professors may seize the opportunity to impart their words of wisdom/insanity/insight. Whatever they have to say, we’d love to know. Send quotes (please include the names of your professor and course) to tips@bwog.com or post them in the […]

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You know the drill: the semester’s ending, strange things are coming up on our lawns, and your teachers are saying even stranger things. We asked for your professors’ closing remarks, and here are a collection of the most outstanding: Sam Moyn, Historical Origins of Human Rights “Well, it’s been a sheer delight. Have nice lives.” […]

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Tomorrow is the last day of class and therefore probably the first day on which you’ll actually be paying attention in class, and Bwog would, again, be most appreciative if you could keep your ears peeled for anything funny, sappy, or just plain bizarre that comes out of your professors’ mouths. You can send in […]

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Yes, it’s getting to be that time of year again. As classes wrap up, your professors will undoubtedly have interesting things–or maybe just things–to say. As per usual, we want to hear about it.  Send anything particularly funny/shocking/melodramatic/actually dramatic/inspiring/etc. to tips@bwog.net, or just leave ’em in the comments. Photo via Wikipedia

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So Long, Farewell

As the semester draws its last rattling breaths, your professors offer their wit and wisdom to sustain you through finals. Bruce Cronin, American Foreign Policy, on cheating: “If you’re Jewish or you’re Catholic, this will eat away at your soul for the rest of your life. So don’t do it!” Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics, […]

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Goodbye, spring semester, we hardly knew ye. Your professors’ most worthwhile closing remarks to beguile and make you smile from Spring 2009. Caterina Musatti, Intermediate Microeconomics: “Let’s have a pleasant last class…which means you obey!” James Shapiro, Early Shakespeare, after a student performance of Richard Curtis’ Skinhead Hamlet: “Now, go try that with a group of […]

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The staff of the Blue and White kindly requests the pleasure of your company at our last general body meeting of the school year, tonight, at 9:30 PM in the catacombs of St. Paul’s Chapel. Join us as we bid adieu to the class of 2009 (picture in formal attire at right). We’ll provide the […]

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Finally, blissfully, it’s that time again. Today is the last day of classes for the year, and your professors should have something to say about it.  As always, please send the sweet/sad/insane words they send you off with to tips@bwog.net or post in the comments thread.  

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Today — as you are all no doubt incredibly aware — is the last edition of your T/TH classes. This means all your T/TH professors will be saying hilarious, touching, inspiring and bizarre things to wrap up the semester. As per our tradition, we want to know what your professors say as closing remarks! So, […]

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Many of your professors will be ending class today with encouragements to get out and vote. Some of these encouragements will be partisan, others will be funny, and maybe a few will even inspire you to vote if you were planning on not doing so. Bwog will be compiling an collection of such remarks right […]

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Tomorrow is the first day of the semester, and as is our tradition, Bwog will be posting all your professors’ opening remarks. Email all the inspiring/hilarious/insane things your professors say to open the class to bwgossip@columbia.edu so that everyone will be as excited and terrified as you are. Here are the things that were said […]

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