Pop some aspirin and hydrate up, kids. CCSC Campus Life will be hosting a tailgate at 12 pm in Pupin Plaza today in honor of the Men’s Basketball game. They’ll be heading over to Dodge at 1:15 to watch the game. Hope you weren’t planning on getting any work done today. Event organizers made sure to note: […]

Love free food, AmCaf, and supporting cancer survivors? Go to Relay Week 2014, or any of the events hosted by Relay for Life Committee at Columbia. It started Monday, but it looks like there are still loads of giveaways and alcohol cool, awesome things happening. It’s almost exclusively in Lerner and AmCaf so you basically […]

It’s a busy semester for all of us, and especially the SEAS students. With the launch of Engineering Week 2014, which is coinciding with SEAS 150th anniversary, it doesn’t get more programmed than this! Sun, 2/16: Opening Ceremony Dinner Roone, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Open to: entire Columbia community Sun, 2/16: Launch Week Light Display College Walk, […]

Whether you have a way with program language or you just want to eat free snacks while trying your hand at coding, DevFest is the event to attend this week. With 830 registered participants and counting, the event kicks off at noon today. There are workshops geared toward beginners all week as well as open hacking in […]

If you are interested in volunteering opportunities through Columbia organizations, be sure to drop by Community Impact’s 32nd Annual Spring Open House. Community Impact is a nonprofit serving disadvantaged people in the Morningside Heights community. They are an umbrella organization for multiple community service groups at Columbia University, which collectively serve 8,000 people each year. Their […]

Vote or die, according to the Columbia Elections Board. They are hosting a candidate mixer with free pizza this Thursday for students interested in running for CCSC and ESC in the spring. Maybe this year won’t be quite as uncontested as the last, though we’re not especially hopeful. According to their Facebook event: Spring elections aren’t until late March, but we encourage […]

We know it’s only the first day of reading “week.” And sure, it’s snowing out. And you’ll definitely be invited to a thousand study breaks this week. But this is probably the coolest one you’ll be invited to and if you’re being honest with yourself, you already need it. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers […]

It snowed yesterday, which makes it officially almost winter break. That and looming finals. Which is why Live at Lerner and Ferris Reel Film Society are bringing you dinner and a movie. Not that it won’t be hard to find a friend with extra swipes in case you miss out on the free ones: ‘Tis […]

Tonight, a new student-driven series called “Last Lectures” will be having its first Last Lecture–you know the concept, that super depressing book by Randy Pausch that your aunt made you read a few years ago. Tonight’s lecture will feature Professors Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy), Michelle Smith (Political Science) and Gary Okihiro (Race and Ethnicity Studies) in […]

Bwog loves the Columbia Culinary Society for many reasons, but actually mostly if in part for their many wonderful and often festive free food opportunities. Today, at 9 PM in the East Ramp Lounge, we will be having our annual holiday pie competition! Come on over to have a taste of some delicious sweet treats, vote for […]

Thanksgiving just kicked off the entire holiday season, which means Morningside is about to get a lot more festive. Tonight is the first of many events, campus-wide Hannukah celebrations. The Jewish Festival of Lights is finally here! Join in on a festive communal candle-lighting ceremony in your dorm, or a dorm nearby, complete with candy, […]

Sad that Thanksgiving break is already over? Sad that that means it’s almost the end of the semester? Even sadder that the end of the semester means finals? Come mourn/eat snacks with Bwog tonight at 7:00PM in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner.     Distressed woman with blunt cut front bangs mourning […]

Enjoy some free food via Columbia Rotaract today, and that means free Starbucks, Insomnia Cookies, and Chipotle with good purpose. Lerner Ramps from 11AM to 5PM, Rotaract will be holding an event called Giving Thanks 2013, in which students will be able to write ‘thank you cards’ to any staff member they want. There will be TONS of free food – […]

The Columbia Neuroscience Society will be having a research symposium today from 1:00 to 3:00 in the Satow Room, and there will be food (of the free variety). If you’re looking to find some potential research opportunities (not just in the Neuroscience Department) or looking for brain food lunch, stop by! Things got really out […]

There are two free food events today, and Bwog wants to attend both, too. Thanks to plenty of tips, the first is at 9:00pm tonight in the Dodge Room of Earl Hall: The Columbia Neuroscience Society will be hosting a talk with Dr. Carl Hart. There was recently a New York Times article about him […]