Spring Week is here for real. (In case you had any doubt, the weather provided a hint.) There’s just one final piece of the puzzle still missing: parties. But all of that changes tomorrow night, with Whisco. It’s time for some celebration, and here’s the perfect way to do it:
You want to start the night off classy, even if you’ll be ending up at a place that “totally blows.” With some bubbly, you celebrate the fitness/pool center’s grand opening, which also somehow coincides with you finishing your paper due early next week and succeeding in the housing lottery. Whether you’ve actually visited the new center yet or not is unimportant (although we do highly recommend it). The main thing is you and your friends all deserve some fun, and it’s got to start somewhere, right?
Next on your Spring Week marathon, the classy classic Wednesday tradition: FishCo’s legendary Fish Piss shots. Back in the day, these tasteful little shooters cost a mere buck (or so it seemed), and were the perfect way to keep the grinding dancing going. Although no one ever knew (and never will know… RIP) what they contained, the easiest way to recreate them at home is by combining all delicious drinks into one — how could that possibly go wrong?
By now, you’ve already either received/purchased an iPad or heard about it from your friends enough to know that there are a million and a half things to do with it. (If not, check this out!) (By the way, I’m talking here about Apple’s tablet, unlike the AP…) From note taking to airplane crashing to star gazing, there really isn’t a lot more out there we could ask it to do. But let’s think outside the box…What about that 30-pin connector at the bottom or the Bluetooth capability? Sure you can connect it to your computer, a wireless keyboard, or (if you’re lazy and have money to waste) your digital camera, but imagine all the possibilities…So stop shopping at censoring Apple Stores, and let’s take a gander inside the intertubes to find how you should actually be using your iPad. [Read more →]
In case you didn’t know yet, today is the beginning of everyone’s favorite week of the year. There’s also a very high chance that we will beat the day’s 2003 temperature record of 88°. (Poor little pre-frosh won’t know what hit them.) Don’t stay inside and reminisce on your sweltering move-in day in Keeney/Andrews: this beautiful weather should be a cause for day drinking/complaining the slip ‘n’ slide hasn’t started yet celebration and outdoor activities, especially since two of your favorite nourishments will be in attendance.
First off, frozen lemonade. You can’t quite remember that first time you had a sip/bite mouthful of some Del’s (your first Spring Weekend? Back in the March heat wave?), but what you can remember is that the the lemony tang of this ultimate refreshment sent chilly waves through your body as the ice melted in your mouth. Despite the trickiness in how to actually slurp it (hold the cup like a hot dog and ooze the ice out… yep), you found a way to do it, and you knew your $2 were well spent. At BlogDH, we don’t like picking sides, so why not also try out New England Frozen Lemonade? It has better online reviews.
Second, ice cream. If the crowds of young-looking students swarming your classes are any indication that ADOCH is happening right now, then that also means the ice cream social will be happening tonight! Although we can’t really condone this (but who are we kidding), it’s probably the best/most successful chance you’ll have at creating your very own false identity while having a tasty dessert. With your newfound talent for Chinese calligraphy (but you can’t do it outdoors) and your U.S. Orienteering championship, convince pre-frosh that Brown is the better Ivy, and that the weather here is always this good.
Despite it now officially being Spring Week, it’s also Monday, which generally does not mean goodthings. Whether you still have work to get done, a thesis to hand in, or you simply forgot that whole part about this week being a marathon (Happy Marathon Monday!), it was hard getting out of bed this morning. Lucky for you, there are two big events you won’t want to miss and two apps to go with them.
1. For all the ADOCH kids/intruders out there, Bump (Apple / Android) is by far the easiest way to share your contact info with your newly-met friends. All you need to do is open the app, make yourself a snazzy business card, and fist bump your friends’ phones. They’ll instantly have your name and phone number in their contact list so you don’t have to deal with spelling out for the nth time that you’re actually French Canadian… (You get my point.) You can even add your Facebook profile so you can “poke” your 2016 classmates, although that may not be the best thing to do. And now that you have everyone’s phone numbers, you’ll get to find out faster than everyone else where the party at tonight!
2. For everyone else, today is the grand opening of the Fitness/Aquatics Center (the Nelson? the Coleman? the JoFAC?), which means it’s time to get back in tank top shape. With Workout Trainer (Apple / Android / Blackberry), you get timed audio instructions, example videos and customizable sets, all with thousands of free exercises. You can also pick sets to target specific areas, and share (through Bump?) your most effective workouts with friends, just to show how much more toned/awesome you are. Granted, most of the workouts don’t require any gym equipment, so you might as well stay home — but why not go if there’s going to be a DJ?
What better way to spend a sunny spring afternoon when all your friends have work to do than cleaning? Yeah, we didn’t think so either. But since you have a little spare time on your hands and you might want to get your room in order before all the pre-frosh/soapy roommates arrive, why not take care of that random collection of nearly empty liquor bottles?
Thanks to a helpful column at the Indy (The Georgetown Independent, what were you thinking of?), and a Cornell student’s short blog, you’ll get a few tips and recipes to use up that leftover Bailey’s/Kahlua/peach schnapps. And if you’re missing a key ingredient, it’s never too late to go buy something — you will have plenty of occasions to drink it all next week/during Reading Period after finals.
Since debuting in 2000 in New York City, the indie rock band known as The Walkmen has always lived up to the hype. Even before they went to high school together at St. Albans in D.C., Ham, Paul, Walt, Pete and Matt were playing on vintage musical instruments. When their debut album came out in 2002, critics were overwhelmingly positive: the band’s “popular” style was somehow “rare, [...] like U2 or the Cure,” according to Pitchfork. Five albums later, the compliments keep coming, despite the band’s move to sadder, darker songs. With their seventh album coming out June 4 and their first album hitting its 10-year anniversary, the group is touring Europe and North America this summer, with several dates in conjunction with Florence + The Machine.
Rest assured however: this is not another gloomy hipster band. [Read more →]
If you’ve checked your calendar recently, you’ve noticed we’re really down to the final stretch: after this weekend, it’s Spring Weekend, and then reading period starts. So yes, if there was any time to neither party nor study, this weekend would be that time. But rather than spend hours at a mall shopping for things you don’t really need, in honor of the Ivy Film Festival ending tonight, we suggest checking out the movies before you get too busy or it gets too warm outside.
With Flixster (Apple / Android / Blackberry / Windows), you can do pretty much anything even remotely related to movies on your phone: buy tickets, watch trailers, read Rotten Tomatoes reviews, and even manage your Netflix queue or stream movies from iTunes. Since Flixster bought the Movies app from a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon in ’08, the app has consistently been one of the top movie apps on all platforms, so there really isn’t any reason why you wouldn’t already have it. There’s also a solid selection of highly-rated movies in theaters right now: Hunger Games, 21 Jump Street, Titanic, The Lorax… If anything, it’ll just be an extra reminder that you “really should go to the Avon/Cable Car more often.”
By now, you’re down to those three or four things that need to get done in order to fully relax on Spring Weekend. Although you have a notebook or a Google to-do list where you have everything written down, you’re never 100% positive you’re not forgetting something. Plus, what’s the point of keeping that list in a central location rather than having it with you when you get things done on the go?
No pressure.
That’s where Astrid comes in. Astrid (Apple / Android) is a cute red octopus that keeps track of all the things you have to do in a neat and tidy way. Yes, task managers are usually extremely boring and unsatisfying, but this one enables you to fully customize your experience as well as your tasks with tags, priority levels and reminders. Moreover, Astrid syncs your tasks with your Google Tasks, which means you can check off an item from your phone, and you can see it checked off when you get back home — satisfaction guaranteed.
The hidden feature though is that Astrid really is a great name for a personal assistant. “Let me check with Astrid” may not be the greatest answer in a job interview, but it’s definitely a worthy addition to your vocabulary. Did I mention he/she/phe was cute?
It’s been a rough few days, and you wouldn’t want any bad luck to befall you in the final stretch before Spring Weekend. You’ve been everywhere on Thayer, and those calzones sure are good, but you want a change.
Two words: food trucks.
You’ve seen them around, but you’ve always thought, “Eh, the line is so long,” or, “Where would I sit and eat this?” The thing is, with the spring sun finally coming out and hordes of hungry students wandering around, the food truck-palooza is sure to hit the campus full force over the next few weeks, giving you both an ample food selection and a variety of crowded greens to sit on. Whether you’re waiting for some Korean BBQ, pulled pork sandwiches, green chili cheeseburgers or cupcakes, the lines usually move pretty quickly and you get to chat around with friends while you anticipate your impending foodgasm. Make sure you give some trucks a try now so you can choose wisely when they invade our streets over Spring Weekend! Treat yo’ self.
Starting Thursday (or Monday with all the ADOCH pre-frosh), prepare to see the campus swarmed with crowds of exhilarated students, all walking from one event to the other, between the stages on Main Green, Lincoln Field and Wriston Quad. Your sole mission if you choose to accept it is to follow the largest crowd you can find. Whether you end up at the foam party, a 4:20 a.m. get-together, or an off-campus house party with one of the Spring Weekend artists, you can never go wrong. And if your crowd/friends aren’t up for fun, either 1) convince them that no one actually works during Spring Weekend, 2) give them a call from the slip ‘n’ slide and tell them to get there ASAP, or 3) FIND BETTER FRIENDS. Trust us, this is what Spring Weekend is all about.
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