Name, School: Taylor Walsh, CC

Claim to fame: Founding Bwog editor—for the first year, if you wanted a comment about yourself removed, I was your girl

Post-grad plans: Research analyst for Ithaka (the non-profit that founded JSTOR)

Preferred swim test stroke?

Freestyle: simple, painless, in a bathing suit as briefly as possible

What are three things you learned at Columbia?

1. Four weeks of winter break is too long, one week of spring break is too short.

2. It's possible to both genuinely love Columbia and to recognize its many flaws.

3. Measure twice, cut once.

Justify your existence in 30 words or less.

My friends are always referencing something called "the Taylor face," and while I'm not entirely sure what they mean, I think I'm making it in this picture.

What was your favorite controversy in your time at Columbia?

I have to go back to Crackergate, one of the first outside events to actually become a bigger deal because of Bwog.

What Columbia memory best exemplifies your college experience?

The other day, a guy came up to me in Butler 210 and asked if I worked there. When I said no and gave him a confused look, he said "Oh. You're just always here."

Which prof do you think would be the best kisser?

My crush on this person is way too real to make that answer public.

What percentage of seniors do you think are virgins?

10%? Though maybe it's more and my friends are just fast.

Would you rather permanently give up oral sex or cheese?

The latter.

Days on Campus memory?

Didn't do DOC, but here's a shallow CÖOP story: I signed up for hiking without much prior hiking experience. They ask you to rank your skill level, and I put intermediate only because I didn't think the boys who would consider themselves beginners were the kind of college guys I wanted to meet. Then one of the intermediate trails was washed out and our group was bumped up to advanced, so I spent the worst four days of my life in constant vertical ascent.

And later realized that all the guys worth dating would have been beginners anyway.

Regrets?

Just missing the Columbia teaching careers of both Benjamin Buchloh and Alexander Alberro, never managing to get off the Episcopalian chaplain's listserv.