The Bwog
Senior Wisdom: Noam Harary

We check in with Noam Harary (right)

Name, School: Noam Harary, CC 08

Claim to fame: Jewfro

Post-grad plans: Living on a friends couch in the city while bartending and acting. I'll be out West next winter teaching snowboarding.

Preferred swim test stroke? Butterfly, then desperately treading water once immediately exhausted.

What are three things you learned at Columbia?

1) You could forge your professor's signature on the add/drop forms, and the registrar never checks or keeps a copy of that document. Hoo-rah.

2) Deadlines are a state of mind. Extensions are always given if asked the right way... (hint: no one wants a jumper)

3) You can graduate with only a concentration. Seriously, no major, no thesis. What's lazy, has two thumbs and a B.A.? This guy.

Justify your existence in 30 words or less.

Gam Zoo Letovah

What was your favorite controversy in your time at Columbia?

Columbia women giving condescending looks to Barnard girls after they say, "I could have gone to Columbia, I chose Barnard"

What Columbia memory best exemplifies your college experience?

It's a tie between slip and sliding on the Carman 8 floor freshmen year using laundry detergent and Saran wrap, and the time I was officially accused by the Philosophy Department of being mentally ill. Both equally epic.

Which prof do you think would be the best kisser?

Vandenburg.

What percentage of seniors do you think are virgins?

The ugly percentage.

Would you rather permanently give up oral sex or cheese?

Oral sex is good, but cheese is forever.

Best Days on Campus memory?

The one with the hot redhead, I think that was last year's. Wait, my DOC?

Regrets?

Not including obscure philosophical references when answering this questionnaire. I can't even directly quote Foucault- how will I live?

Posted by nah: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM ) (from campus)
no way does that guy have two thumbs.

some people have two thumbs but it is very rare.
Posted by ...: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM )
what do you know -- another douche on senior wisdom. guys, at least try to find good ones or stop the series.
Posted by ...: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM ) (from campus)
i think the school should bill back all the grants made to kids who spent four years here but couldn't even bother to complete a major...

sheesh!

Posted by heeheeheeee: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM )
heeheeeheeeeeee

p.s. look at that guy's penis!!!
Posted by Hmm: [#5] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM )
Amusing, but I would be more careful about advertising forging a professors signature if I were this guy....
Posted by man: [#6] [reply] [track] (in reply to #3)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM ) (from campus)
whatever.

people way too uptight about their majors.

it's arguably easier to do a lot of majors, and take intro classes, than to just take what you want and take a lot of seminars and advanced courses in different fields.

plus harder don't mean better.
Posted by hey: [#7] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM ) (from campus)
wait...this man might be a genius.
Posted by this guy: [#8] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM ) (from campus)
is living the dream
Posted by this: [#9] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM ) (from campus)
senior wisdom is excellent. What a guy!
Posted by this too: [#10] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM )
is for the best
Posted by omg: [#11] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM ) (from campus)
...why did i not meet him!?!!

awesome.
Posted by agreed: [#12] [reply] [track] (in reply to #6)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 5:03 PM ) (from campus)
it's a rare situation where you actually need whatever "specialization" an undergrad major provides you with. Just concentrating let me have room to take classes (including upper-level ones) in a wider range of subjects and keep finding new interests, and I didn't have to suffer through uninteresting classes because I needed more credits or had to meet some distribution requirement. Just doing a concentration is something a lot more people should enjoy.
Posted by i love: [#13] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM )
this one!
Posted by ...: [#14] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 5:17 PM ) (from campus)
i suppose it's true that majoring in something is unnecessary if you plan on waiting tables, bartending and ski bumming.

(which mind you, are really fun activities and a perfectly reasonable (if not superior) approach to life... but if that's your goal, why bother with college in the first place?)
Posted by Yay!: [#15] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM ) (from campus)
Noam is just the nicest, sweetest guy ever. Supper funny and sincere, and works hard when it's important. Great senior wisdom!
Posted by psh: [#16] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM )
dick

Posted by yo whatevver: [#17] [reply] [track] (in reply to #14)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 6:41 PM ) (from campus)
there are many reasons to go to college most of which don't specifically involve focusing on one area of study.

you get

degree

experience

education
Posted by uh,......: [#18] [reply] [track] (in reply to #1)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM ) (from campus)
everyone has two thumbs: a left thumb and a right thumb
Posted by the pitts: [#19] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 6:51 PM ) (from campus)
"3) You can graduate with only a concentration. Seriously, no major, no thesis. What's lazy, has two thumbs and a B.A.? This guy. "

This actually made me cringe. What a fucking jagoff.
Posted by lol: [#20] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM ) (from campus)
I don't think he sounds terrible. I thought it was pretty funny.
Posted by Ok...: [#21] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 7:31 PM ) (from campus)
So you don't like it when all Bwog runs are the valedictorian/Marshall/Rhodes scholars for the Senior Wisdoms, and now you don't like it that the chill side of Columbia comes out (for fuck's sake, some of you could use some chilling out).

And that's not just because I'm carrying Noam's child.

I'm a guy.
Posted by pathetic: [#22] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 7:56 PM ) (from campus)
i can't believe people are hating on this guy. he's cool and his senior wisdom is funny. you cynics/losers need to lighten up.
Posted by ...: [#23] [reply] [track] (in reply to #18)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 8:08 PM )
[ external link to www.youtube.com ]

HE WAS MAKING A JOKEEEEEEE
Posted by seriously: [#24] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 8:09 PM )
agree with "pathetic."

there's so much negativity with all of these comments
Posted by John: [#25] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 9:09 PM ) (from campus)
Noam is an upstanding guy. There's a difference between being wise and being smart, and he pretty much makes that difference up.

He's also not lazy at all. I just saw him perform a part in Much Ado About Nothing that he learned in three weeks after someone else quit. Modesty is a virtue.
Posted by i wish: [#26] [reply] [track]
( posted May 15, 2008 at 9:15 PM ) (from campus)
i were as laid back as this guy. he's got it figured out.
Posted by and yet: [#27] [reply] [track] (in reply to #19)
( posted May 15, 2008 at 9:48 PM )
when jim halpert says it because a bunch of unemployed ivy league philosophy majors wrote it for him, you'll piss yourself laughing
Posted by except: [#28] [reply] [track] (in reply to #27)
( posted May 16, 2008 at 1:14 AM )
they're not unemployed if they're writing for the office
Posted by hell yes: [#29] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 2:07 AM ) (from campus)
THIS GUY IS AWESOME.

finally, a senior wisdom i can relate to!
Posted by hot girl: [#30] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 2:17 AM ) (from campus)
I heard he's really good in bed too...
Posted by agree: [#31] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 2:43 AM ) (from campus)
He's hilarious!
Posted by ahem: [#32] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 3:09 AM ) (from campus)
As You Like It

get yo shit straight
Posted by noam: [#33] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM ) (from campus)
=AMAZING. he is such a sweet and funny guy, almost too cool its intimidating. and very hot. double plus.
Posted by hot guy: [#34] [reply] [track] (in reply to #30)
( posted May 16, 2008 at 8:50 AM ) (from campus)
definitely, i can personally confirm that
Posted by hes hott: [#35] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 10:26 AM ) (from campus)
like seriously
Posted by anonymous: [#36] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 11:16 AM ) (from campus)
i have the biggest crush on this guy.
Posted by haha: [#37] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 12:34 PM ) (from campus)
columbia "women" and barnard "girls"

whoops
Posted by man: [#38] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM ) (from campus)
dude be boning all the girls I want to bone
Posted by NOams great: [#39] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 2:32 PM )
So what you're saying is... that Noam's a slacker asshole bastard cuz he's graduating without a major...

BUT WHAT IM ACTUALLY HEARING IS...

that you're all pissed and jealous that you've wasted your lives over your majors and theses, and he didn't. He beat the system and you're jealous. Get over yourselves.

I love Noam. I lived with him for a bit. And he is a slacker but he's an upstanding guy. The best way I could describe him is he's the jewish ferris bueller. Shit just always seems to work for him. And that's okay.

btw. He was in As You Like It, you tool.
Posted by noam: [#40] [reply] [track]
( posted May 16, 2008 at 3:50 PM ) (from campus)
is my hero.
Posted by ...: [#41] [reply] [track] (in reply to #39)
( posted May 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM ) (from campus)
zomg! american slacker hero! he went to one of the best schools in the country and couldn't be bothered to even complete a single major! we should all be like him!

i, for one, welcome our new asian overlords.
Posted by rjt: [#42] [reply] [track] (in reply to #27)
( posted May 16, 2008 at 7:57 PM ) (from campus)
Not to go off on a tangent, but the whole point of Jim saying the "this guy" thing is to mock it as being stupid and unfunny: [ external link to www.youtube.com ]

Also BJ Novak majored in English and Spanish Literature, not philosophy.

I am so cool.
Posted by kjkl: [#43] [reply] [track]
( posted May 17, 2008 at 1:46 AM )
wait so why did bwog choose this guy? he doesnt seem important...all he does ie bartending .and is kinda a douche from my interactions with him.
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