The final stretch… the end is in sight…

Overall… not actually that bad!

Do you know anyone else with a room covered in aluminum foil? Staff Writer Tara Terranova took a trip to McBain to chat with Warren McCombs, CC ‘23, about his unusual choice in decoration.

“Hot take. McBain isn’t that bad.”

I mean…really?

Sophomore sweeties, meet your future home: McPain, McNasty, McButt, etc. A kind of dingy dorm in a prime location, McBain is fine. Like really it’s fine. 

McBain, one of the most popular sophomore dorms at Columbia, gets a lot of flak. Senior Staffer Jake Tibbetts wants to correct the record.

In early June, the New York Times (NYT) published an article about McBain Hall’s safety violations. After citing historical failures in its building maintenance, the piece depicted Columbia as ignoring a “façade so decrepit that city inspectors have issued several violations for the risk it posed to the public.” While this incident might initially seem […]

Students have been hit with a barrage of fire alarms in the past 48 hours: 4 times in EC. 3 times in McBain. Once in Carman. And the JJ’s sprinkler system is malfunctioning. The latest false alarm happened minutes ago in EC. Is the stress of midterms causing people to toke up at 3:30am on a […]

Is it still a good morning if you’re up past McDonald’s breakfast hours? Yeah they serve all day now, but the rigid 10:30 standard they set is timeless (it’s 11am and you’re just now waking up? We’ve been eating fries for 30 min. Where have you been?). Keeping up with NSOP can be exhausting, whether you were partying […]

Sometimes called Carman 2.0 and sometimes called McNasty, McBain’s short lived geotag on snapchat displaying mice pretty much sums up this fun, whimsical dorm. Its recent renovation may give a nice exterior, but its facilities are still old and ramshackle Location: W 113th St at the corner of 113th and Broadway, New York, NY 10025 Nearby dorms: Watts, Broadway, […]

Looking forward to escaping the hell of Carman bathrooms by living in a newly-renovated dorm next year? Well, you may not be so lucky. Apparently, some of these nicer bathrooms have already been destroyed due to debauchery/water leaks(?). Staffers sent in evidence of their dorms’ trashy toilets that they were told would be renovated. Drunken […]

Love the vibe of Carman? Then McBain will surely be your jam. Rising sophomore heaven! Perhaps that is hyperbole… Anyway, Bwog here to tell you what to expect. Location: 562 West 113th Street Nearby dorms: Watt, Nussbaum, 113th Brownstones Stores and restaurants: Deluxe, Milano, Amigo’s, Oren’s, Tom’s, Dig Inn, Nussbaum and Wu, NYPL, basically everywhere Cost: $7,324 (same as […]

This summer, floors 1, 7, and 8 of McBain—the notoriously disgusting but charming sophomore dorm—were completely renovated. A former penthouse resident, Anna Hotter, visited her old home and has a lot of feelings about it. Do you remember that 2007 rom-com with Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, where every woman who sleeps with the Dane Cook character […]

Here’s a slightly blurry explanation of that enormous blowup insect reading “Shame on You” on 113th street, and it’s all because of McBain: