Every year news students arrive to campus a week early with spirits full of hope and minds primed for molding. Unfortunately, the earnest innocence doesn’t last long, as NSOP presents the first social and narcotic barriers to entry for the academic market, and that’s where we come in. Bwog loves observing the full spectrum of […]

NSOP 2012 is in full swing, and the sweet ’16ers are everywhere—but there’s no need to get out of bed to gawk! We’ve captured all of the excitement of move-in day, so far, below. Send any photos, Overheards, or general information to tips@bwog.com, and we’ll add it to the post!  

Spotted: pigeons, crab grass, brown spots…

More good stuff from r/Columbia; this time, suspicious use of scare quotes at Appletree: “Food” from imgur

Update, 10:07 pm: Speaking of Reddit, /u/millie1889 registered r/Barnard today. No activity as of yet. r/Columbia found this short poem in a Mudd bathroom.

From Getty, on the Daily Mail, of all places

Cervantes seems to be working on a new installment, in which Don and company take a road trip, complete with sweet vanity plates:

PSA: If you’re one of the poor souls still trudging on through the deep abyss of exams, please try to make it to your bed tonight—in part for your mental/physical health, but primarily ’cause Bwog finished last night, and we don’t want to have to post another series of these!

Over the course of many days spent here in Butler, we’ve looked on patiently as young love has shape-shifted through a number of manifest forms, from discreet Skype sessions to full on fornication, freshman-style. But this latest display is too much—we’re putting our foot down:

Filed under: Meh.

Spotted in SIPA: the big kids have some advice for us underlings. Also, they want their shit back.

Spotted in Avery: some hungry student ordering pizza.

Today at noon, a group of people from all walks of Columbia life gathered together at the sundial to listen to Eric Foner inaugurate May Day or International Workers Day. The May Day strikers are heading downtown, so be sure to follow them.

Despite one Columbians’ efforts to save precious reading material/most students’ midnight snack cutting boards, some of us seem to be done with our books before the semester is even over. A shot of the corner of 113th and Broadway is proof: