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Bwog doesn't have the cash to "pimp your room," and we certainly don't want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you the semi-weekly Thursday feature, the "Cribs-esque" Room Hopping, continuing with...

ellen and ashleyEllen and Ashley C '09 admit their newly painted jungle green Ruggles double has brought them closer together in a special way.

"We sleep like a married couple that doesn't have sex," Ellen says. She may be referring to the side-by-side set-up of their twin beds, but the two have certainly reached new levels of intimacy, even attaining that oft-celebrated sentence-finishing stage of friendship:

Ellen: We have breakfast together on the terrace. Ashley got a Waffle iron.
Ashley: I got a waffle iron...
Ellen: We watch UPN 9 together.


friendsYou made it! You're finally away from your parents, living in New York, and going to a really good school. Unfortunately, you probably didn't get into Columbia based on your social skills. Your 100+ Facebook friends notwithstanding, Bwog thinks you could use a few pointers on socializing for your freshman year. Here, then, is some advice from Bwog staffer and social butterfly Brendan Ballou on how to make friends:

- DO play a get-to-know-you-game. Nothing reveals compatibility more than a shared birthday month, except perhaps Facebook.

- On a related note, DO NOT friend me. Yes, we share an interest in Wes Anderson. And so do the dozens of other people in the 'Wes Anderson is a cinematic genius' Facebook group. But a shared interest is no closer to real friendship than your Facebook profile is to your real personality. Despite your prolific summer IM'ing, your college friends will have to be found in the real world.

- Do talk to strangers in John Jay. The college cafeteria is nothing like the high school one. For one thing, the old guy from Sister Act II eats here. For another, people are in general friendly and willing to share a table. If you have nothing else to do, etch tray puns.

- But DO NOT talk about the SAT. You got 2400? What does that even mean? Surely, surely there's something else to talk about? The AP's?

See also: Friends, Nsop

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