For this week’s #tbt, Bwog went through some Columbia alums’ mail. (Okay, not exactly, since these particular letters have been published.) In order to find out what they thought about their time here, we did some investigative reporting, by which we mean looking up “Columbia” in the index. Here, for the first time in print iPhone […]

Like the leaves fluttering to the ground so our laughter falls away as we bury our noses in textbooks. But not necessarily—sometimes textbooks say weird and amazing shit. Take this quote from Empire City (assigned by Prof Ken Jackson for his perennial favorite ‘History of the City of New York’ class) which describes Columbia’s colorful past: The college, […]