The Bwog
And So it Begins...

Though applicants are not notified until the fifteenth, at least 47 of 2012's damndest have gained Early Early Admission acceptance. Congratulations?

Naturally, the sneaky 47 have already made a Facebook group, thereby getting a healthy head start on the path from (best!) Facebook friends (forever!) to avoiding eye contact during the Blaze.

UPDATE 9:51 PM: 2012 begins defending themselves on Bwog. Also, the ED notices were apparently posted online today at 5 PM.


See also: Class Of 2012

Posted by CC 2012: #1 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 9:48 PM
Actually, Early Decision notices were posted online as of 5pm today.
Posted by roflcopter: #2 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 9:52 PM
points and laughs.

look at the little pre-frosh already posting on bwog.
Posted by welcome: #3 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 9:53 PM
now shut up and come back when we're gone

love,

cc'08
Posted by OMG: #4 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 9:56 PM
werner herzog's son!!!
Posted by ED09: #5 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:02 PM
They did the same thing back in '09. The nice thing was that I didn't even have to open the e-mail because GMail shows the first few words
Posted by well: #6 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:03 PM
how about we just laugh at them. they have no idea the shitshow they're walking into. better enjoy that first year in Carman, because sophomore McBain, junior Wien, and the worst days of your life likely await you in this awful, awful web of Ivy that is vaguely reminiscent of Harry Potter-style devil's snare. I should've gone to Rutgers.
Posted by ED 2012: #7 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:05 PM
The class of 2012 has Erectile Dysfunction.
Posted by wirc: #8 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Just remember kids, you'll be the inaugural class of the Manhattanville Campus.
Posted by wow: #9 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:06 PM
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Posted by 2011: #10 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:09 PM
awesome find.
Posted by dysfunction: #11 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:17 PM
That's right. ED 2012! Viva Viagra!
Posted by oh my: #12 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:24 PM
poor little things. mere babes unknowingly casting their souls into a deep, $200k abyss.

note: 12ers, don't read bwog comments during finals week.
Posted by !!!: #13 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:35 PM
exactly. i would say 99% of my enjoyment of the columbia community came freshman year. it's not just downhill after that, it's plunging into a black hole of depression, isolation, and ostracization.
Posted by meh: #14 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 10:51 PM
i was fucking miserable my freshman year, but it got better after that.
Posted by why : #15 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:01 PM
does each year's class get more and more obnoxious?
Posted by lolCore: #16 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:03 PM
I has nevr been so miserable since i wrote dis LitHum papr
Posted by critic: #17 (in reply to #16) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:05 PM
what a poor attempt at the "our favorite comments" section.
Posted by well: #18 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Freshman year was a wonderful mix everything you thought college would be: weed! alcohol! woah, I have a girlfriend! sex! all of the above at once!

Once you hit Sophomore year (or for the lucky, second semester Freshman year), college actually begins, and everything just kind of sucks.

Posted by harry p: #19 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:23 PM
i see on their facebook wall that a "clara potter" is a recent addition to the columbia family. That's cool. I like to think we are recruiting from hogwarts.

maybe she can go on hunger strike until there is a wizadry department with student voices in the faculty hiring process.

i bet she gets this joke a lot and hates harry potter with a vengeance.
Posted by fuck it man: #20 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Harvard announcing the whole finaid thing pisses over everyone.
Posted by actually: #21 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:24 PM
come to think about it, i feel kind of an asshole for publishing her name on the internet. bwog should take my posts down.
Posted by agreed: #22 (in reply to #13) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:25 PM
Couldn't agree with you more.
Posted by first year: #23 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:25 PM
Freshman year, especially the first semester, was terrific.
Posted by This ^: #24 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:37 PM
is why Columbia isn't allowed swipe access to the Nard.
Posted by coldshower: #25 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:42 PM
We were actually having a nice moment here before you came along.
Posted by Recontextualized: #26 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:47 PM
After that comment was deleted, I enjoy the new dynamic between comment 23 and 24.
Posted by i think: #27 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:53 PM
i might know you. and if so, i hate you.
Posted by Santa: #28 · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:53 PM
I can't believe the 2012ers were so quick to make a Facebook group!

So does it boil down to

a) Receive email

b) Read it, click the link and yell out in excitement

c) Tell friends, mom and dad, and family

d) Tells kids next day at school

e) Create Facebook group INSTANTLY and wait eagerly to join the Columbia network?

Why does something tell me I've misplaced "e)" in the order?
Posted by Hatred: #29 (in reply to #27) · reply · track
December 11, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Why the hate? Nowadays, I barely spend enough time on campus to be known, let alone hated.
Posted by what was : #30 (in reply to #26) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
the original post? i missed it. maybe if you paraphrase it, bwog might not find so offensive (or whatever their reason was) and it might not disappear so soon.
Posted by The Post Was: #31 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:12 AM
It was something about a guy wanting to engage in sexual intercourse with 2012ers come 2008 NSOP.
Posted by Hey Bwog: #32 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:20 AM
Vikram Pandit, Columbia undergrad and grad school alum and current Trustee, was just appointed CEO of Citigroup. Is naiice.
Posted by dude: #33 (in reply to #32) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:24 AM
absolutely unrelated. AND, way to ruin the wait to see how long before bwog or spec would realize...
Posted by I know who you are: #34 (in reply to #29) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Mark Modessitt. That's who you are. Secret identity revealed!
Posted by SEAS '12: #35 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 1:01 AM
wait i got accepted "early early"...so does this mean when i'm an upper classman at Columbia i'll be sitting in my dorm on some bwog poking fun at 17 yr olds?

damn.
Posted by umm: #36 (in reply to #35) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 1:11 AM
yea.
Posted by yep: #37 (in reply to #35) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:00 AM
you pretty much hit the nail right on the head
Posted by ahhhhhhh: #38 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:07 AM
the freshest-freshmen: they're growing in numbers... their group's doubled since 9:30, like a virus ... i'm no premed, but i predict that this virus will grow about 60-fold in the next couple of months ... don't ask me how i know this

seriously, 2012 welcome... and do us all a favor and work on that tolerance a bit 2nd semester, won't you?
Posted by hahahahah: #39 (in reply to #34) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:09 AM
major props for the modesitt crack.
Posted by ttan: #40 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:18 AM
Dear incoming first-years,

For all your inquisitive eyes:

[external link to www.wikicu.com]
Posted by an auspicious: #41 (in reply to #35) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:32 AM
beginning. you are on your way to having the requisite snark of a columbian.

welcome.
Posted by ...: #42 (in reply to #40) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:48 AM
wrong link

[external link to www.wikicu.com]
Posted by Simon: #43 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 3:51 AM
in fact I created the group months ago because I had already been accepted ED last december and deferred.
Posted by aaaw: #44 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 9:13 AM
Baby Columbians,

Don't believe all the bullies!

Of course, many are jaded and currently cranky because of finals, but columbia is an wonderful place and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Posted by Excelsior!: #45 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 10:33 AM
I graduated three and a half years ago and I still miss it every day. Freshman year is when you get to make all your mistakes while you're figuring out this college thing... I had a ton of fun, but I don't think I was friends with any of the same people by the end of college. Sophomore year did suck, both because I was shifting social groups without the open social attitude of freshman year, and because calsses suddenly got more serious while I tried to figure out what to take and what to do. But by Junior year, I had friends, I had figured out who I was and where I fit on campus, and I had two years of nothing but the greatest times of my life. Columbia is the best place on earth, if you can learn not to take yourself or the school too seriously. Never take cliches at face value.
Posted by Thanks alum...: #46 (in reply to #45) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 10:49 AM
"Never take cliches at face value."

Hmm...,

CC '08
Posted by tehe: #47 (in reply to #34) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 11:04 AM
lolModesitt
Posted by Lycian Penguin: #48 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 11:19 AM
So, red flags for this year's applicant crop:

-Community Activism

-Marking down 36-Multiculturalism as an Extracurricular

-Mentioning the surrounding community in the "Why Columbia" essay
Posted by Lycian Penguin: #49 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Also, at least they kinda, sorta learned from this year's freshman crop with the related groups...

[external link to columbia.facebook.com]
Posted by c'09: #50 (in reply to #49) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 12:31 PM
why do they make these party groups?? i can't understand! they're going to college; obviously they're going to do at least a little partying, so why make a facebook group about it?.

"heyy! im so ready to party! haha i was scared for a while that no one really wanted to party at columbia! yeahh! anyway im already drunk! cheers. haha my parents and i are having wayy too much champagne"

is this a joke?? it sounds like a joke.
Posted by don't worry, 2012: #51 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 2:54 PM
there are actually nice people at columbia. most of them just don't post on bwog.
Posted by nice: #52 (in reply to #50) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 3:19 PM
hahahaha nice find. sounds like a winner.

Posted by c'09: #53 (in reply to #51) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 4:12 PM
i'm not trying to be mean; i just don't get it.
Posted by Hehe: #54 (in reply to #50) · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 4:33 PM
Man, there really is one of those groups every year. Terrifying.
Posted by An Idea: #55 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 5:16 PM
could someone start a "c'12 is ready to get CAVA'd!" group?
Posted by whoa: #56 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 5:33 PM
i can't believe it's been a year since this happened to me.

time flies.
Posted by CC '09: #57 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Don't worry pre-froshes, Columbia is a place where all your dreams will come true. A word of advice, read all Bwog posts with a grain of salt and don't take anything too seriously. You will probably get ragged on till NSOP starts but, it's all in the spirit of hazing...
Posted by CC 07: #58 · reply · track
December 12, 2007 at 8:49 PM
God, I am so freaking glad that facebook did not exist before I came to Columbia. And since I didn't go to days on campus, my first exposure to Columbia and it's students was, gasp, move in day. What an idea.
Posted by CC11: #59 (in reply to #58) · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 1:49 AM
CC07, you're just bitter that your old, washed up ass didn't have access to the internets like we did. Try asking your grandkids, I'm sure they'll show you how to use facebook. In the meantime, go back to crying while you masturbate to fill the void in your pathetic, poorly-networked life.
Posted by CC07: #60 · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 6:06 AM
bear in mind, new columbians, that the majority of bwog comments are far more: conservative, racist, contrarian, skeptical, and obnoxious than the student body at large.
Posted by yeah: #61 (in reply to #60) · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 6:34 AM
i agree. i've never been able to articulate it quite that plainly, but yea, you're spot on.

perhaps all the people/ideas that are marginalized in the real columbia environment have a disproportionate volume online in order to compensate
Posted by Lycian Penguin: #62 (in reply to #60) · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Like in the real world, cranky people bitch the loudest.
Posted by Not that it is: #63 · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 2:23 PM
Not that it is a bad thing, but Class of 2012 is 39% homosexual
Posted by '11: #64 · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 3:55 PM
There's too many people from class of 2011 post on the '12 facebook group. It makes me sad.
Posted by '12: #65 · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 9:27 PM
I agree. I'm coming in next year and it kind of breaks up the online bonding for us.

And a lot of it is just annoying whining. I feel like there are other placed to let that out
Posted by rajib Mitra: #66 (in reply to #65) · reply · track
December 13, 2007 at 10:07 PM
its all sarcasm. its intended to let u know that columbia students have a sense of humor. i started the thread as a joke. i was actually lovin it when i saw everyone was getting in on the action haha
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