If you did last night, then this post is useless. If not, you are in for a serious treat. The venerable, ORIGINAL Thayer Street food truck is coming to the Blue Room. That’s right, the Blue Room will be serving Mama Kim’s starting tomorrow, THURSDAY, at 4:00 p.m., according to Morning Mail. The move to the Blue Room is, according to Hyun Kim ’01, all part of a plan to “bring Korean cuisine one step closer to the Brown community.”

The Hazeltine abides.

Now, the intensity with which one believes in the absolute truth of Morning Mail may vary from student to student, but I suggest you all heed this warning: If you really love Korean barbecue and can’t wait for the truck to get here, RUN — don’t walk, this is supposedly a “trial run” with a “limited amount of food available” — to the Blue Room Thursday afternoon. Adding Mama Kim’s to the 4:00 p.m. Blue Room rush is sure to cause a near riot in Faunce, so if you don’t like crowds or really good-smelling food, you might want to find another place to hang out tomorrow afternoon.

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“Have you ever wanted to take a class from skilled culinary professionals?” asks today’s Morning Mail. “Do you want to improve your basic cooking skills?”

Dining Services has the answer! According to the information page:

We at Brown Dining Services’ Sustainability Initiative are pleased to offer Brown students on meal plan the opportunity to participate in cooking classes this semester! The classes will highlight the behind-the-scenes of Dining Services: students will cook delicious meals in the Ratty Bakeshop from locally-sourced food with the help of Brown Dining chefs Aaron Fitzsenry, the Culinary Manager for retail outlets, and Dave Chabot, the Executive Chef at the Faculty Club.

If you’re interested, you have until Feb. 23 to sign up, though there are only 20 spaces available, so participants will be chosen by lottery. For more info, check out the sign-up page!

But… let’s hope their classes don’t involve hot ham on a bulky roll or Saturday Night Jambalaya (it’s never served on Saturdays).

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Ittleson Quad – that obnoxious stretch of land that has been the longstanding cause of your detour to the OMAC (among other things) – is opening today! Brown requests that students “refrain from using the grass area of the quad while the protective roping is in place,” but I think some celebratory snow angels might be in order…

As you may or may not know, the print edition of BlogDailyHerald has a shiny new edit board who aren’t wasting any time recruiting new talent for the paper.  In the past few weeks, three different sections of the paper have advertised in Morning Mail and asked some interesting questions.  So again we ask you:

“Feeling opinionated?”
“Enjoy going to Brown sporting events?”
“Looking to gain real-world business experience at Brown?”

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” let them know!  For more information on opinions or sports writing, you can email opinions(at)browndailyherald.com or sports(at)browndailyherald.com, respectively. If you would like to apply to the Brown Daily Herald, Inc.’s sales staff, you can find the application (due January 15th) here.

Interested in anything else Herald related?  Look out for announcements about BDH (and BlogDH) info sessions in the near future.

Were you planning on visiting a friend at another school during our irrationally fantastically long winter break?  If so, you may be able to bypass the mild inconvenience of accessing their school’s wireless network!

According to a submission in this morning’s depressingly sparse Morning Mail, Brown has joined a new service cleverly called eduroam (education roaming — ohhhhh), which allows students of participating universities to get internet access across a number of schools in the US and abroad.  For more information on the service, you can consult their website, which has a map of participating schools, or watch the terrible promotional cartoon above, which has a joke about the difficulty of nailing jelly to a tree (?) and is narrated by someone who appears to be (poorly) imitating Mark Blyth.

If RISD decides to opt in to this service, it would solve the only problem with studying at the RISD Library — the terrible service provided by the dreaded “RISD-Guest” network.

BlogDailyHerald rescued this gem from Sunday’s Morning Mail:

“Teams from CSCI 1320 and GISP 011 are working together to make the best interspecies love site on the World Wide Web today. We are holding a contest for the best graphic design (we’ll also accept hand-drawn sketches) of a unicorn and Bruno the Bear in bed together (the morning after). The contest winner will receive: 3 hugs, a chance to join our team, $50 cash, and other prizes not appropriate for us to list.”

Sounds promising. Submissions are due this Thursday at 11:59 PM to brumantic@gmail.com. You know you want them prizes…

The bane of every Brunonian's existence

Brown CIS submitted message in today’s Morning Mail that read:

Brown has embarked on a project to replace MyCourses, our current learning management system. The version Brown is running will soon no longer be supported. In an effort to find a replacement solution which best meets the needs of the campus community, the project team is collecting feedback from faculty, staff and students.

Finally!  After semesters of suffering through the frustratingly slow, one-window-limiting, counter-intuitive service provided by Blackboard Learning Co., this blogger is happy to hear that Brown is finally looking for an alternative.  Maybe the next incarnation of MyCourses will make our lives a little bit easier i.e. won’t log us out after three seconds of inactivity.  To provide your input to CIS, answer the survey they put up before November 12th.

Courtesy of TheSunBlog

Our beloved Morning Mail included a wonderful announcement today:

Beginning Tuesday, October 12th, the Blue Room will spice up your morning with our new Breakfast Burritos. They will be available Tuesday 10/12 through Friday,10/15 from 8:00am until 10:00am.

Wow.  The new Blue Room just never fails to impress us here at BlogDailyHerald.  Come and get your Mexican food fix while supplies ingredients last!

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A small message in today’s Morning Mail read (to our horror):

The Ivy Room, which used to open promptly at 7:30pm for evening service, will now open any time between 7:30pm and 7:45pm due to the increased number of items that need to be set up before the shift.

What?!  This certainly puts a chink out our falafel plans–now, only luck (and not diligence) will determine who is first in the line for that mushy vegetarian goodness (unless you want to risk getting there 25 minutes early)!  We think that this announcement might be part of a grand Ivy Room scheme to send frustrated Brunonians away to the marginally-less-crowded Blue Room.  BUDS, we call foul.

The last item in today’s Morning Mail quietly announced the beginning of service in the newly renovated Blue Room in Faunce!! Monday, August 16th!! Did we mention we’re excited?

Any devotee will surely be eager to stop by and relish the return of the Blue Room to its rightful location.

If you’re within Blue Room range, send us your comments, discoveries, impressions, and/or pictures – for all those not fortunate enough to be in Providence for opening day.

Happy muffin buying!