Sure pre-frosh can be a little irritating, but their idealism and eagerness can be charming... right? For 2012, Arianna Feinberg was courageous enough to jump-start the pre-frosh profiles.

Hometown: Paukakalo, Maui, Hawaii
Prospective Major: Sustainable Development, International Relations, Political Science, History
Prospective Dorm: John Jay or Carman (I am still torn, but recently I have wanted a single)

How long do you think it'll take you to lose your...

Dignity? This is a bit tricky, because I generally don't care what anyone thinks of me. So as far as my dignity is concerned, I may have already lost it or I will never lose it or possibly I have never had it.
Moral compass? I have a pretty strong hold on my moral compass, so hopefully never.
Sanity? I am already ridiculously crazy.


2010 had the myspace, 2011 dominated on facebook, but 2012 went above and beyond, ED on facebook. Does this milestone make you proud?
I would not say I am particularly proud, but with one of my friends' encouragement, I joined the facebook group 45 minutes after I found out, so I am definitely a part of the group's enormous success. To be honest, joining the group oddly made my going to Columbia next year a reality. I am completely addicted to procrastinating on the internet, so seeing the growth and activeness of the CC '12 group made me feel comforted that my future classmates have my same vice. The group has actually made me slightly pessimistic about next year because people's comments seem sort of lame. I hate it when people abbreviate excessively such as "how r u?" and "lmao" and I want to vomit whenever someone writes ";)". At first I found it humorous that a bunch of 2011 kids were sarcastically giving advice, but then it sort of made me sad that the current freshman at Columbia have nothing better to do than haze younglings.

For all you prefrosh across America (don't worry, you won't actually be called a "frosh" when you get there), the time is coming to decide for college - in fact, you have less than a week left. To help you decide in a very unhelpful way (you'll never know for sure anyway), Bwog has compiled two lists:

You SHOULD come to Columbia if:

1. Lions are your favorite animal
2. You like big cities and small spaces
3.You can deal with both bureaucratic horseshit and your roommate growing mushrooms in horseshit.
4.(If Jewish) You got a cool yarmulke you want to show off.
5. You're not enough of a tool to feel at home at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.
6. You want to spend your money on a fake ID so you can spend more money on your alcohol.
7. You want to get your intellectual name-dropping down, so you can win arguments by saying things like "grip tha canon like Fanon"
8. You don't mind pretentious kids who use words like "problematize," "farcical," and "diametrically" in every class comment.

You SHOULDN'T come here if:

1. You were traumatized by a Lion at a circus when you were eight, and never got over it.
2. You like small cities and big spaces
3. You never learned to deal with bureaucracy because you went to private school, and never dealt with farming because you grew up in a city or suburb.
4. (If Jewish) You're not ready to be recruited by like, five fucking Hillels or something.
5. You're not enough of an asshole to feel at home here.
6. You want to spend money on furniture (because you think you'll have a place to put it)
7. You want to get your sports name-dropping down, so you can win arguments by saying things like "yeah, well we still kicked your ass in the Rose Bowl"
8. Your reaction to pretentious bullshit is so diametrically opposed to any non-farcical positive response that you can't even begin to problematize it.

"You do not understand my words, but you must choose."

- DHI

You may be holed up in your rooms, cozily finishing up homework and recovering from the weekend, but hundreds of high school seniors have work to do: deciding whether they want to join us. Bwog stopped by the activities fair in Roone Arledge, filled with terrified-looking prefrosh and bright-eyed, bushytailed club leaders noshing on brownies and cookies. Hurry! Net them now, before they settle into their activities, never to be recruited again!

Will Columbia's yield on its record-breakingly low admit rate be spoiled because of the rain? Not if Columbia student groups can help it.

We didn't get pictures like last year, but word is that acceptance letters went out today, meaning that there are going to be a lot of angsty posts over here and excited youngsters the world over refreshing their e-mail obsessively. CC and SEAS combined got over 21,000 applications--that's a lot to reject!

Welcome, class of 2011. Bwog is waiting for you.