Though classes stop, Senior Wisdom continues as we check in with CPR editor-in-chief and n+1 pamphleteer Mark Krotov.  Name, School: Mark Krotov, CC  Claim to fame: Editor of the Columbia Political Review, Former editor of The Birch, Spectator film critic. Oh, I also handed out n+1 pamphlets last fall, which compelled many denizens of Butler […]

Next up in our Senior Wisdom series: CQA bigshot and self-described card-carrying lesbian Cait Clancy. Name, School: Cait Clancy, SEAS   Claim to fame: Queer Awareness Month Head Honcho, CQA secretary   Post-grad plans: Very vague year off, then medical school.  Preferred swim test stroke? I’m in SEAS, punks.  I’ll build a bridge instead.    […]

Name, School:   Geoff Aung, CC  Claim to fame:   Inaugurating Columbia’s Burmese-German-Irish (BGI) population. Starting the Burma 88 Coalition, wrangling friends and enemies to get involved and put Burma on the campus map (right next to the room with all the skulls in Schermerhorn extension).  Post-grad plans:   Researching rural herding cooperatives in Mongolia […]

It’s unofficially academic honors day on Bwog, so in a very special double-feature of Senior Wisdom, we check in with CC Salutatorian, Julia Kalow. Name, School: Julia Kalow, Columbia College  Claim to fame: I’m the one you have to listen to at CC Class Day who’s not Joel Klein.  Post-grad plans: PhD in organic chemistry […]

The latest in our continuing Senior Wisdom series: CC valedictorian Maxim Pinkovskiy  Name, School:     Maxim Pinkovskiy, CC Claim to fame:     I was the 2004 M&M Peanut Minute Student of the Year in Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s Intermediate Macro class! Post-grad plans:     Ph.D. in economics at MIT, then – I hope – professor at Columbia […]

Next up in our continuing Senior Wisdom series: SEAS soon-to-be-graduate David Judd.  Name, School: David Judd, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.  (Which should still be called the School of Mines, clearly.) Claim to fame: Left-wing mujahid.  (See here & here.) Post-grad plans: For now, a Java programming job in eastern Jersey.  Maybe […]

QuickSpec is on hold while we wait for Spec to update their site with today’s paper. So in the meantime, let’s check in with CC senior Becky Abrams for another edition of Senior Wisdom.  Name, School: Becky Abrams, CC  Claim to fame: Fruit Paunch, Varsity Show, falling down in the dining hall sometimes  Post-grad plans: […]

Senior Wisdom continues with Bwog’s very own webmaster/graduating SEAS senior, Zach van Schouwen. Name, School: Zach van Schouwen, SEAS Claim to fame: I’m the campus tech czar—plus I’m a first-generation Bwogger and therefore guaranteed a podium in the Senior Wisdom series. Post-grad plans: Like everyone else in the computer science department, I’ll be working at […]

The second installment of our continuing series, Senior Wisdom.  Name, School: Josh Lipsky, CC  Claim to fame: Prez of Dems/Founder of Roosevelt/Daily Show intern  Post-grad plans: The presidential campaign trail  Preferred swim test stroke? We’ll find out the day before graduation  What are three things you learned at Columbia?    You can take any class […]

Meet Calvin Sun, president of Asian American Alliance (which we believe to be the genesis of this little venture), vice president of the class of 2008, breakdancer, bartender, biochem major, and now MTV star. You’ll probably see him wandering around Lerner shirtless one of these days. Do not be alarmed, he’s quite harmless. What is […]

This is the last installment in our senior wisdom series. This time, meet the graduating seniors of The Blue and White: Publisher Jessica Shizu Isokawa, senior editors Marc Tracy and Brendan Pierson, Managing Editor Josie Doll Swindler, Editor-in-Chief Avi Zenilman, Copy Chief Nicholas Frisch, Graphics Editor Jerone Hsu, and editor-at-large Addison Anderson. We’ll miss you. […]

This is the 12th and almost-final installment in our senior wisdom series…bringing you all the awesome ’07ers you should have met by now.   Claims to fame: SGA president, Turath president, Vision Program fellow (a.k.a. I doubted the value of life, hated the world, and ate lots of burek/börek for four weeks in the Balkans). […]

This is the tenth installment in our senior wisdom series, in which we bring you awesome ’07ers whom you should have met by now.   Claims to fame: Prior to attending Columbia, I worked as a high-fashion model here in New York and around the world.  While at Columbia, I served on my student council, […]

This is the ninth installment in our Senior Wisdom series…bringing you all the awesome ’07ers you should’ve met by now.  Claims to fame: I yelled “CUNT” loudly and repeatedly to an audience of several hundred people on multiple occasions when I was in the Vagina Monologues freshman year (although I still wonder about the possibility […]

This is the 8th installement in our Senior Wisdom series…bringing you all the awesome ’07ers you should have met by now.  Claims to fame: Spectator Arts and Entertainment editor many moons ago. Preferred swim test stroke? I don’t have to know how to swim. What are three things you learned at Columbia? 1. I can’t […]