The world’s best known former Ruggles inhabitants, Vampire Weekend, released their new album Contra yesterday. The album has received positive reviews so far, including  a shockingly high 8.6 from notoriously picky Pitchfork Media.  The band was recently interviewed for a Wall Street Journal music blog, Speakeasy. The band talked about books and wore cardigans. VW […]

Bwogger Sara Vogel points us in the direction of the Housing website, where there is a list of all summer dorm renovations. “We cannot guarantee projects or timing,” it warns. Anyway, we are excited! Three lucky apartments in Woodbridge (right) are getting an environmentally-conscious makeover, complete with Energy Star appliances and lighting and Forest Stewardship […]

From Woodridge to Wien, we’ve covered a lot of ground already. But we’ve got to maintain a steady pace if we’re going to reach McBain by suite selection.  Ruggles   With recent renovations in all eight-person suites and upcoming summer renovations for the four-person suites, Ruggles is quickly departing from completely carpeted floors and cramped […]

There’s nothing like a lazy weekend afternoon to get Columbia students talking about video games…     Ruggles, Friday afternoon: Girl: What are you playing? Guy: Diablo II expansion pack: Lord of Destruction. Girl: What’s that floating around you? Guy: Bone shield. [pause] There’s really no way to sound cool when you’re playing this game. […]

Bwog doesn’t have the cash to “pimp your room,” and we certainly don’t want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you the semi-weekly Thursday feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping, continuing with… Ellen and Ashley C ’09 admit their newly painted jungle green Ruggles double has brought them closer together in a […]