Helen Cane tells us the importance of activism and orgasms. Happy Friday :-)  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Helen Cane, Barnard College, Economics, Palo Alto, California Claim to fame: Co-founder of Divest Barnard from fossil fuels campaign. Barnard Writing Fellow. Well Woman Peer Educator. You may have seen me doing homework or compiling Disorientation Guides in 1020 because […]

Your last senior wisdom of the day comes from Haley Fica, Barnard Physics major and dancer extraordinaire. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Haley Fica, Barnard, Physics, Alpharetta, GA Claim to fame: I’m the girl who wears shorts all year long, even in -20 wind chill, whoops. I’m in almost every dance group on campus (Orchesis, UnTapped, CoLab, Raw […]

Women’s Rowing Captain and Senior Fund Co-Chair Laney McGahey shares her senior wisdom with you next!  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Laney, Lanels, Lanith, Lentil Soup Marron McGahey (ps my real name is Elena), Columbia College, Rowing and American Studies, San Francisco, CA Claim to fame: Sunshine Chair and lucky resident of Symposium Penthouse @Lill @G @Em (thank […]

More senior wisdom comes from Wong Hui Yu, CC’s artsy anthropoligical art historian!  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Wong Hui Yu, Columbia College, Art History Major and Anthropology concentrator, Singapore. Claim to fame: Friendly coordinator of about a year’s worth of figure models in Dodge 501 sketch sessions. Profferer of loose bits of advice in the darkroom on […]

Next up on our Senior Wisdom lineup is Barnard’s Alexandra Warrick, famous for prize-winning and Latenite-ing.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Alexandra Warrick, Barnard College, Film and English, New York City (I grew up by the 72nd street stop.) Claim to fame: I won the Andrew Sarris Prize for a thesis on Tim and Eric, Eric Andre and […]

Next up in our Senior Wisdom series, we have Yadir Lakehal – who is meme famous and 3D prints food. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Yadir Lakehal, SEAS, Mechanical Engineering 3-2 Program, Casablanca, Morocco Claim to fame: Most of my friends know me as the dude who 3D prints food in the first floor of Mudd, but my […]

Our next senior wisdom comes from Sophie Laruelle who wants you to get off your phone (after reading this).  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Sophie Therese Laruelle/CC/Music/New York City!! JK Westchester. Ok……Scarsdale. Claim to fame: Over the past four years, I’ve played everything from a demonic environmentalist to an incestuous queen to a frisky CUMB member to Jeb […]

In our second senior wisdom today, Paulina Mangubat talks about memes and wise things.  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Paulina Mangubat, Barnard College, political science and East Asian studies, Phoenix, AZ Claim to fame: In a past life, I worked for Spectator, where I appropriated the Bored@Butler “campus discourse” meme and transformed it into a branding strategy. Bored@Butler […]

Read another senior wisdom to learn how to be wise! Rachel Ford shares a few things. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Rachel Ford, Barnard, MESAAS, Cumberland, RI Claim to fame: Former Personnel Manager of CUMB who herded sheeple I love. Former McAC chair who planned Barnard traditions. Left a freshman who joined a band trip under false pretenses […]

Taking some time off of studying? Blast off into another installment of Senior Wisdoms featuring the stellar Keenan Albee! Name, School, Major, Hometown: Keenan Albee, SEAS, Mechanical Engineering, Boring, MD (Yes, it exists.) Claim to fame: I was one of the founders and served as Co-President for the Columbia Space Initiative (shout-out to Julia and the space bois). […]

Bwog is back with more senior wisdoms! Today we have Aleksandar Obradovic, President of Philo. So, yeah, he’s basically a cult leader. Check out what he has to say!  Name, School, Major, Hometown: Aleksandar Obradović, CC, double-major in Information Science (Health Informatics) and Biology, Pre-med, home is where you hang your hat (alternatively, home is Dresher, […]

You asked, and we delivered: up next on our first day of senior wisdoms is the wonder Poke-Master Karim Nader, who tells us about Metaphysics and his EC PJ party plans.   Name, School, Major, Hometown: Karim (Cream Cheese without the Cheese), Columbia College, Philosophy with a concentration in Math, from Beirut, Lebanon. Claim to fame: That guy […]

It’s everybody’s favorite time of year: Senior Wisdom season. The season when, instead of being rained on by water, you’re rained on by the witty and wise words of Columbia’s graduating class. Our first wisdom this year is from Alex Della Santina, former poet of the marching band, Spec columnist, and resident of a destroyed […]

Bwog has been around for ten years, and no content has quite defined us like our Senior Wisdoms. We’ve seen some very good (and very bad) advice, but the posts are about more than just actual wisdom. Anyone who’s thought about writing a Senior Wisdom has inevitably had to contemplate – would I rather give […]

Name, School, Major, Hometown: Hannah (guttural “H”) Vaitsblit, Barnard College, Political Science (soon to be renamed “pseudoscience” for its less-than-stellar predictive capacity), Brookline, MA Claim to fame: As of last week: co-sponsored a dissident revolt against the proposed Orwellian purge of Overheard @ Barnard, after consistently firing shots against the group’s fascist enforcement of identity politics […]