NSOP is the perfect time to get settled in your new neighborhood, which includes finding your favorite dealer. Deciding who to pick up from can be easy: Birth control? Duane Reade. Grapes? Westside Market. But for other drugs, like caffeine, the choice can be much more complex. During your time at Columbia, you will develop […]

Today is the fifth-going-on-fiftieth day of NSOP, and while your mandatory events and forced friendships seem to be killing you softly, don’t give up hope! Use this time to familiarize yourself with your campus, your peers, and your uni (seriously, memorize that ASAP). Other don’ts for the fifth day of NSOP: hook up with a floor-mate, visit home, use all […]

We’ve heard through the grapevine (ahem…tips@bwog.com) that shit is getting (and we quote) “messy” in the Class of 2020 Facebook group now that housing assignments have been released. Hopefully this piece will soothe your worries a little bit, first-years, or at least make you realize that who your freshman year roommate is won’t really matter in […]

As the year comes to a close, we present you Bwog’s last Senior Wisdom of the Class of 2015 by our former Managing Editor Alexandra. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Alexandra, CC, English, New Rochelle, N.Y. aka Westchester aka Bestchester Claim to fame: Managerially edited this publication for 2013 with the incomparable Alexandra Svokos (love you, […]

The website Jezebel started a trend of posting ridiculous emails and handbooks from sororities with an email from the Alpha Chi Omega chapter at University of Southern California. To add to the list of infamous AXO emails, Columbia’s own chapter has been featured with a leaked handbook for Recruitment Week 2014-2015. The handbook totals at 30 pages, including an exhaustive […]

With all of the hard work that goes into making this illustrious site run day in and day out, only a few of our staff members have the privilege of taking on the laborious activity of making Bwog the way it is. We like to call these heroes Daily Editors and we need some more […]

This is just a friendly/frantic reminder that the applications to be a Staff Writer for Bwog are due tomorrow night at 12:01 am.  If you enjoy writing pretty much anything—because we cover anything—or if you hate writing but are awesome at it, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss.  Start (or finish) your application now! In […]

Momma Bwog is very torn. She is well-known in the knitting circle as the biggest NFL football fan in the state of New York. You may have caught a glimpse of her hanging out at the Times Square Super Bowl events this past week, knocking over toddlers to go down that huge blow up slide. […]

Last night during our first meeting, Bwog received the following via our anonymous tip form: I couldn’t make it to the first meeting because I arrive on campus tomorrow! Will I still be able to join Bwog? (will there be other information session like meetings) While we normally would have responded to this tip directly […]