Ever wonder what life would be like if you went to NYU? Take a trip to NYU's favorite coffee spot for a cup of joe and your daily dose of meta!

Grade inflation isn't the only reason to wish you went to NYU. Just a few blocks south of Washington Square Park, Think Coffee serves up some of the city's best coffee to NYU students and downtown denizens alike. Although Oren is a classic campus spot and Hungarian perfects the bohemian coffee house aesthetic, neither of these places are appropriate for studying.

Living up to its all too apropos name, Think Coffee on the other hand is an ideal place to study. The space is well lit and equipped with plenty of power outlets. Indeed, you'll find many Macbook users here, enjoying Think Coffee's free Wi-Fi service. With three separate seating areas and plenty of plush couches, it's easy for students to spread out their books and make themselves at home. Like any well-equipped home, Think Coffee has a collection of board games, including Scrabble. And there's even a book nook where patrons can borrow and swap books.

Despite the accommodating digs, Think Coffee is free of the common coffee shop blights. The couches remarkably are free of coffee stains and coffee stench and even the archetypal stained and stinky coffee shop bum.

Self-indulgence reigns supreme on Bwog, as the Senior Wisdom series continues by profiling departing BLUE AND WHITE editor-in-chief Taylor Walsh.

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.

Senior Wisdom continues with Bwog's very own webmaster/graduating SEAS senior, Zach van Schouwen.

Name, School: Zach van Schouwen, SEAS

Claim to fame:
I'm the campus tech czar—plus I'm a first-generation Bwogger and therefore guaranteed a podium in the Senior Wisdom series.

Post-grad plans:
Like everyone else in the computer science department, I'll be working at Goldman Sachs. Eventually, a graduate career in city planning.

Preferred swim test stroke?
The engineer! ... I don't take that test.

What are three things you learned at Columbia?
* Hungarian Pastry Shop was better before it was in the NYT.
* I'm terrified by ambitious people with resources and social skills.
* I really dodged a bullet by not getting into Princeton.

Justify your existence in 30 words or less.
My hand is in every computer here. When I leave, all software will grind to a halt; you'll have to form lines in the gym to register for classes.

Like most events, the discussion was not nearly as black and white, or as contentious, as the title made it out to be—the two contenders were mostly talking on different wavelengths. Professor Davidson provided specific examples of the blogs she enjoys and the services they perform, and a personal perspective into how blogging, and internet technology in general, improves her literary life. An avid reader of crime fiction, she can go online, mine a fellow enthusiast's blog for information on obscure, small-press, high quality detective stories, and then order those books free of charge from BorrowDirect.

Last night, Project Bluelight, a Columbia University undergrad film project, premiered their first film, "Setup," in Roone Cinema before a Ferris Reels showing of There Will Be Blood the Oscar winning There Will Be Blood.

Opening shot: a giant chicken getting run over by a car while fetching coffee. However, this short (6 minute) film was more than just Family Guy-esque comedy. The audience moved through the complex plot effortlessly with the aid of well-timed dialog, tight cinematography and more than one killer Punch Line.

Apparently, more "devils" upheld Niko's impeachment.

The language of the Devil is...meta!

Hopefully, that can be exorcised with some straight-edged journalism.

Poeticus Diabolus.

Hell freezes over: SEAS kids experience technical delays.

The Blue and White is pleased as punch to commandeer the Bwog airwaves for a moment in order to announce the launch of our new site, designed by the ever-brilliant Mr. Robert Stenson, Esq. No longer shall we suffer, as Samson did, trapped between the Bwog's two imposing columns—from this day onward, the print magazine asserts its own new, aesthetically pleasing web identity.

Of course, your feedback is desired while we iron out the technical details of our new design. Thanks for reading!

Dear techie Columbians,

Bwog, since its birth, has been managed by one web master—and now he's moving on to bigger things. The sort of things that happen below 110th Street. Meanwhile, we're looking to acquire a good computer programmer to take his place! Besides a love for Bwog and a genial character, the job demands a certain prowess in:

• PHP
• MySQL
• Basic Linux skills
  
• Subversion

Send a convincing argument to bwog@columbia.edu, and we'll talk.

Love,

Bwog Staff

Satow Room Bureau Chief Martha Turewicz reports back from last night's CCSC meetings. Spoiler alert: Calvin Sun and Lindsey Lazopoulos hotly debate a theoretical photograph of Michelle Diamond theoretically shotgunning a beer.

The first thing I noticed at the meeting last night was that the audience was packed, since all the CCSC candidates were obligated to be there. Last time so many showed up was for the Great Juicy Campus Detente. Would tonight be just as interesting?

No, no it wouldn't. The bulk of the meeting entailed providing an example for the candidates of the progression of a typical meeting—while this was all very meta, a free speech debate it was not. This was not helped by the descent, during the last 20 minutes, into the bureaucratic depths of the constitutional review.

To be fair, there were a few bright points. For one, it was interesting to note the presence of previously unseen council reps, namely Max the Webmaster.

Some of you may have noticed the site was down for the last couple of hours. Apparently the downtime was due to something vague and apparently troublesome occurring with our sever.

But we're here to assure you that we're back and we apologize for the inconvenience. And not only that, we come bearing good news! Tipsters Alexandra Muhler and Josh Mathew inform us that two Columbia students--Nhu-y Ngo of Nebraska and Sarracina Davis Littlebird of New Mexico--and one Barnard student, Amanda Catherine MacLellan of New Hampshire--have just been awarded prestigious Truman Scholarships.

- JNW

Bwog now supports the emailing of posts! Please feel free to use the Email buttons at the bottom of each one to send them to friends, family, strangers and enemies who you feel deserve extremely witty spam. We'll have tracking of most emailed posts once we've been doing it for awhile.

Enjoy!

Bwog is a simple website. We like hawks and free coffee and pictures of babies in snow. But this morning Bwog was thrust into the unflattering spotlight of the New York media thanks to a fact-checking-averse ex-Speccie with a Gawker byline. You can read the post here.

The story has inexplicably gained some momentum, and Bwog was later contacted by Media Bistro regarding our response to Gawker, which you can read here.

We'd chalk it up to a slow news day, but then again Governor Spitzer was just implicated in a prostitution ring, so we're stumped.

Que sera sera.

You'll have to excuse us for our lazy morning, yesterday was Bwog's 2nd Birthday Party at La Negrita and we're still a bit tired. Bwoggers, BWers and alums aplenty migrated to 109th and Columbus (despite the slush and ice) to celebrate with drinks, Top 40 hits, and the memories of QuickSpecs and Major Columbia Controversies of yesteryear.

With a nod to Bwog's launch party, of-the-moment Columbia celebrities Judith Shaprio and David Helfand also made an appearance. (See more pictures after the jump.)

If you were at La Negrita last night, we hope you had a lovely evening. And we thank you, gentle readers, for another wonderful year.

Bwog entered the terrible twos last week, and is looking forward to teething, walking, colic, and replying to every statement with a simple "Why?"

As such, you are pleasantly reminded that the second anniversary of our birth will be celebrated tonight at La Negrita (Columbus & 109th Street), at 10 PM. Bwog will be personally offended if you aren't there, and would prefer to look back fondly on this momentous occasion. Don't miss it!

In an effort to control the vitriol in the comments section, we're adding another mechanism to keep an eye on anonymous commenters. From now on, if a comment was posted from a campus computer, you'll see the icon. We're hoping this will help cut down on abuse without unnecessarily impinging anyone's privacy.

Naturally, we're still looking for feedback on the comment system, in the threads or by emailing bwog@columbia.edu — and as always, you can find our full comment policy here.

Welcome back,
Bwog Staff