America's favorite lasagna-loving cat hated Mondays, and he didn't even have a week of midterms ahead of him. If you're still mourning Columbia's loss at Homecoming this weekend, stayed in Butler till dawn, or are just generally bummed out because the week is always a long one, check out our list of worthwhile stuff to look forward to this week.

Bwog followed the Class of 2012 to one of NSOP's headline events, After Hours at the Met. From the overly large museum, freshman correspondent Will Leonard reports.

Before they could arrive at the hallowed destination, 2012ers had to deal with the double danger of novice New Yorkers: Metrocard machines, and getting across Manhattan on the subway. With only a few casualties, mobs of 2012ers made their way down to 5th Avenue for the second major event of NSOP 2008: an evening cocktail party and gallery showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Most of the students from the four schools made it out, accompanied by their oddly sleepy RAs and overly perky Orientation leaders. 2012ers were welcomed into the Grand Hall of the Met by stern security guards and even sterner catering staff, who distributed meager amounts of gummy bears and M&Ms to the mingling freshmen. As they sipped their so-called mocktails, 2012ers engaged in small talk at their cocktail tables. Topics of discussion included upcoming parties on Carman's 11th floor and the long lines for food in the now "trayless" John Jay Dining Hall. "An environmentally friendly dining hall for freshmen? That's just AWESOME," one freshman declared.

The Met puts on fabulous events just for college kids every couple of months. Bwog correspondent Lucy Sun attended last night, snapped a few photos, and had a swimmingly good time.

Young, warm people formed a ridiculously long line outside the Met tonight for a masked ball in honor of the Met's new galleries for Oceanic Art and the Art of Native North America. Inside, the lobby was lighted in ocean blue, with music ranging from techno to bongos. The crowd's dress ranged from "I go to art school" to "I'm going clubbing" to "I'm going to the Prom."

An announcer begged us to stop crowding the lobby and go look at some art. The new galleries include rooms of intricate masks and delicately whimsical jewelry, all made of gold, as well as deeply organic masks and totems made of shells, hair, and wood.

Bwog overheard some OLs on the uptown 1 headed back from the Met excursion and decided to inquire about NSOP's first big event.

Bwog: Were you guys just at the Met?

Girl OL: Yeah! We left early.

Boy: I'm not even an OL! Or a freshman!

Girl: He's just my friend!

Bwog: So was it fun? Were there a lot of people there?

Girl: There were a lot of people there. The whole first floor of the Met was crowded.

Bwog: Did anything exciting happen?

Girl: We got Gummi Bears.

Boy: And these water bottles. I wasn't supposed to get one. But I did.