Analogies
Many analogies can be drawn between things at Columbia and things in the real world:
- Columbia Daily Spectator = The New York Times
- The Blue and White = The New Yorker
- The Bwog = Gawker
- Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal = Science
- University President = President of the United States
- Office of the President = White House
- Samuel Johnson = George Washington
- university administration = U.S. Postal Service
- Student Financial Services = IRS
- Roar-ee, the Columbia Lion = Bald Eagle
- football team = U.S. soccer team
- baseball team = U.S. cricket team
- soccer team = U.S. rugby team
- Morningside Heights campus = Contiguous United States
- Manhattanville = Detroit
- Columbia University Medical Center = Alaska
- Barnard campus = Mexico
- Barnard students = illegal immigrants (j/k)
- NYU = Canada
- Wien Hall = housing projects
- Chris Kulawik = George W. Bush
- Ivy League = Oxbridge
- SEAS = MIT
- Columbia College = Thirteen Colonies