Eat free or dine trying.
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Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Open House “with COOKIES”
6-7:30 pm
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

Find out more about resources, groups and programs offered through the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. Cookies the size of your face “MEETING STREET COOKIES” will be served! Shout it from the rooftops, SDWC!

“In the stacks of the livebrary” with Jeffrey Schnapp
5:30 pm
Lownes Room, John Hay

A reception after the talk will take place in the Hay lobby. So classy.

Brown Bag Series in Anthropology: Kevin Smith
12-1 pm
Rhode Island Hall 108

Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Kevin Smith, will give a talk on “Symbols of Power and the Color of Belief: Legitimation, Place, and State Formation in 13th Century Iceland.” Free pizza and soda. Classic.

Venture For America Info Session
5:30-7:30 pm
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium

Learn about the two-year fellowship that allows you to work alongside an entrepreneur to help build his or her business. Talk to the founder and CEO, Andrew Yang ’96, and enjoy some free pizza.

No one can ever pronounce February right, but everyone CAN eat free or dine trying.
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Firecream
8-10pm
Tech House Lounge, Harkness House

No organizations providing free food at their meetings? Tech House’s only response is CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. In a day rife with food-less events, the techies’ Firecream pwns hard. You bet we’ll be going to get hot s’mores and cool ice cream by some faux flames tonight. Reason enough to dub Harkness the most patriotic of Patriot’s Court? Yup.

And thus another semester calls out to you:  Eat free or dine trying.
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Welcome Back Social
11:30am-1pm
Memorial Lounge in Faunce, Room 229

Come ring in the new year with this absurdly-timed event featuring “light refreshments,” which is the University’s way of saying “leftover Ratty corn muffins.”

John Carter Brown Library Fellows Lunch
Noon-1pm
Hillel

Apparently these lunch chats between visiting researchers, scholars, and students will happen every Wednesday, allowing the JCB to suddenly become relevant to hungry CS concentrators.

“Why Literature Departments Should Speak in Ordinary Language,” Lecture by Professor Leela Gandhi, University of Chicago
5:30-7:30pm
Pembroke Hall, Room 305

Professor Gandhi’s talk will touch on postcolonial theory, ordinary language philosophy, and radical literary studies, culminating in the always ambiguous “light reception.”

Get it before it's gone!

Last night, masses of hungry students at the SciLi were fed at Pizza Nite, courtesy Campus Life and the University Library.

Tonight, the awesomeness repeats itself at the Rock at 9 pm. I was chatting with one of the librarians, and he mentioned that they order 90 pizzas for the SciLi’s Pizza Nite and 80 pizzas for the Rock’s. Last night, the pizza was almost all gone in a little over five minutes.

While everyone was waiting for the pizza, they were greeted with a surprise: a cappella caroling. Check out photos from last night after the jump. [Read more →]

What college student ever turns down free pizza?

Tonight at the SciLi and tomorrow at the Rock, the epic semesterly tradition know as “Pizza Nite” will take place at 9pm, according to Morning Mail. If you’ve never been, get ready.

Pizza Nite is probably one of the best free food events of the semester. First, there’s the anticipation. The crowds are waiting, growing larger and increasingly impatient. The pizza never arrives on time. Then, suddenly, the big moment arrives — library workers emerge with stacks of pizza boxes. The crowd goes nuts for the pizza, and you wonder if there will be any left when you get to the front of the line. Just then, 20 more boxes of pizza arrive, putting your fears to rest. As the pizza continues to disappear, another dozen boxes come along, then another dozen. In the end, something like a hundred pizzas are consumed in the span of a few minutes. (Then they bring out some cookies and fruit.) [Read more →]

WiSE Study Break
6-8 pm
SciLi 3rd Floor

Enjoy gingerbread, eggnog and Christmas specials with WiSE to take a break from all that studying. Humanities concentrators welcome, too.

Breakthrough Collaborative Informational
7-8:30 pm

Learn about opportunities to teach middle school students over the summer! There’s no indication of what kind of free food will be available at this info session, but we’re hopeful.

All Class Holiday Study Break
Petteruti Lounge, Faunce
7-8 pm

Schmooze with your classmates and enjoy hot chocolate while building gingerbread houses. The Class Coordinating Board has extended this invitation to faculty as well, so we can only hope that our favorite dean will be in attendance.

Movie and Food with the NeuroDUG
8-10 pm
MacMillan 115

Come to get free Kabob and Curry and see The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.

Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Parks and Rec Study Break
8:30-9:30 pm
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

Watch the most recent episode of Parks and Recreation while enjoying cookies with the folks from the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center.

Eat free or dine trying.
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Queer Community Forum: Under the Pan-Queer Umbrella
5 pm – Arnold Lounge

Discussion forum on improving the queer community at Brown – promises free pizza and ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.

Entrepreneurship in Social Media
7 pm – Wilson 304

Vince Broady ’90 shares lessons as an entrepreneur in digital media. Brown seems to like entrepreneurship, so this will be relatively fun. If you don’t care for enterprise, but love free pizza, this will be a pleasant experience, too!

John Nicholas Brown Center: Opening Night! Place, Memory, Experience…
5:30-7:30 pm – Carriage Galleries (357 Benefit)

A collaborative exhibition at the John Nicholas Brown Center, promises three interesting art exhibits and free snacks. If you enjoy art with your free food, this might be ‘the move.’

Eat free or dine trying (or just swipe your Brown ID)
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Ruth Booth
12-2pm
Ratty – Chancellor’s Dining Room

Stop by the dining hall and leave a video message for Ruth.  Not sure if there’s really free food, but this will be happening in a place of dining. Oh yeah, and they may hit you up for a few bucks. Brought to you by the Brown Annual Fund.

Careers in Advertising
12:30-1:30 pm
CareerLAB Library

Richard Ting, SVP and Executive Creative Director of R/GA, will be speaking about his work in advertising and how he cultivates relationships with clients.  He is currently working on advertising in mobile and social platforms.  His speech will be accompanied by the intoxicating aroma and presence of pizza.  [Read more →]

Eat free or dine trying.
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“Quantum Computing: A Great Science in the Making”
4-5 pm
CIT Room 368

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao of Tsinghua University in Beijing will discuss the challenges and promises of quantum computing. The CS department generally holds pretty good (read: generous) receptions after its lectures, so definitely check this one out if you have any interest in the subject of the talk.

MMI Fall Seminar: Leo Lefrancois, Ph.D.
4-5 pm
Biomed 291

Wattup refreshments. I see you being served at 3:45 pm.

(Be)Longing: A Workshop on Race and Desire in the LGBTQ Community
7-9 pm
Robert Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge

Sponsored by TWC, QPAC and the LGBTQ Center. There will also be free pizza!

The Reporter screening
8 pm
List 120

Disclaimer: this film is not about an intrepid blogger/Brown student who, through his misadventures in cyberspace, discovers his true calling in life. It’s about, like, a crisis in the DRC and some NYT reporter. Whatevs. Free Nice Slice.

Eat free or dine trying.

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Science DUG Research Panel
5:30 pm
Petteruti Lounge

Hear reps from the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry and Physics DUGs talk about research opportunities while you eat free pizza. Fingers crossed for Nice Slice.

Milk with Professor Self
6pm
Smitty-B 106

Popcorn, chips and pizza, plus a fantastic history professor leading a short discussion when the Academy Award-winning film is over. If free food events were ever perfect, this one would be pretty close.

Free Dinner with Professor Bungiro
7-8 pm
Third floor SciLi

An Urgent Free Food Announcement: There will be free Shanghai at this event. Who is Dr. Bungiro? This guy, that’s who. This event promises to be relatively entertaining and definitely stomach-filling.