ADI’s DevFest took place last week, with various workshops for beginners and more experienced coders and “Open Hack Spaces,” where participants could hang out with each other and meet engineers from sponsor companies. The week then culminated with the Hackathon portion, which lasted from Friday at 4pm until Saturday at noon. Whether you’re into computer science or […]

We’re all friends broke around here. We know where your last $10 REALLY went. But your friends are weirdly into Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hannukkah/nondenominational winter holiday, so you’ve gotten roped into celebrating the festivities like a real family. Here’s how to get by this holiday season, poor student style. For all your gift-giving needs, a by-no-means-definitive analysis of […]

Good news! A study by the CDC of 138,100 U.S. adults has found that 90 percent of Bwog staffers heavy drinkers are not actually alcoholics. If that has you feeling at all good about the state of humanity, an outbreak of bubonic plague has struck Madagascar, killing forty and threatening to spread further. But, hey, a survey […]

In response to President Bollinger’s salary increase of $700,000 over the past few years, students have created a Tumblr called “President Bollinger’s Raise” and a GoFundMe page satirically demanding a “Fair Salary for Prezbo.” The Tumblr page gives examples of things on which Columbia could have spent its $700,000 instead of giving Prezbo a raise, such […]

Today is Giving Day here at Columbia, which is an online fundraising competition between the many schools that make up the university (and apparently “Athletics” is its own school?). Notably, the money donated to each school’s fund can only be used for that school–the money isn’t part of general funds. Check out the Leader Board to […]