Do you crave to be at the hub of the wheel that strives to create an informed and aware student body? Are you frequently compared to Clarissa from Clarissa Explains it All? Do you like to dothings for the sake of journalism? If so, you should consider applying to become a member of the BlogDailyHerald team. We’re looking for dedicated and ambitious writers to join our staff. Come to our information session TONIGHT at 7 p.m. in the upstairs space* of the Herald office (195 Angell Street) to learn more about who we are and what we do.
If you can’t make this information session, don’t worry—shoot us an email at blog(at)browndailyherald(dot)com to get more information.
Do you live, breathe, and crave all events and things Brown-related? Is your support for the use of the Oxford comma alienating you from your friends? Do you enjoy wasting time and doing things daily? Are you good at sports? If you’ve answered “yes” to three out of the four questions above, you should consider applying to become a blogger! BlogDailyHerald is looking for passionate, motivated, and dedicated writers to join our squad and deliver daily news and happenings to our readers.
We’re holding an information session at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30th in the upstairs space of the Herald office (195 Angell Street).
If you can’t make this information session, don’t worry—shoot us an email at blog(at)browndailyherald(dot)com to get more information.
Shout it from the rooftops. Scream it in the streets. At long last, BlogDailyHerald is back in action. We’ll be here day in and day out to keep you company as you go full speed ahead until the school year’s end. Get ready for a semester chock-full of bear heads, catharses, and punning. Hold onto your hats (and all of your other winter apparel)—we’re about to take things up a notch. It’s go time.
We’ve had a great semester up here on the Hill, but it’s time for us to pack up, head on home, and have some quality bonding time with our couches. We’ll be posting periodically throughout the break, so check back for updates. Remember to keep sending news, tips, and suggestions to blog@browndailyherald.com, and shoot us an email if you’re interested in joining our squad in the spring.
Happy Holidays (!), enjoy your break, and we’ll see y’all in 2013.
As we head into reading period, we’re making the transition from time-wasters to study breaks. Same objective (now more than ever, obviously), but more in quantity. Happy studying (and breaking)!
Have days of reading, writing, and studying completely worn you out? Have you fallen victim to the reading period blues? Have you been anxiously waiting at the edge of your seat for a friend/anonymous person to drop some lines about you on Brown University Compliments to help lift your spirits, but haven’t yet found your name of the page (keep checking, we promise it will be up soon!)? In the meantime, the compliments doctor is in—straight from the instant gratification department, here are some emergency compliments to reinvigorate and inspire you as you chip away at everything on your to-do list. As long as you keep telling the site that you “still feel crappy,” the compliments will keep rolling in; otherwise, the site will ask you if you want to buy a print of the compliment that made you feel better (…which also may not be the worst thing). Quick! Check it out now! It’s an emergency!
Like all of y’all, we’ve taken off to enjoy turkey (and turduckens? Maybe) and sit in the hot seat while our drunken aunts ask us about our love lives. If at any point during your pumpkin-induced food coma you begin to experience symptoms of BlogDailyWithdrawal (defined by BlogMD as “a rash in the shape of an angry bear head, hashtagged speech and an overly inflated sense of self worth”), we suggest you medicate by showering yourself in love and gratitude: Brown University Compliments will be up and running (albeit slowly), so consider letting your classmates and friends know just how thankful you are to have them in your life. Until Sunday, eat, drink, and enjoy!
Ahh, Halloween. Cady Heron was right when she said that it’s the one night a year when girls (and boys. Don’t be so heteronormative) can be more scantily clad than usual and no one can say anything about it. And thanks to Halloween falling on a Wednesday, we get to experience two weekends chock full of bear-it-all costumes. Although the “which weekend should I go out” question might be bothering you (the answer is both, by the way), here’s the REAL question that should plague your every thought: “How am I supposed to come up with a different, hot costume EVERY night?” Have no fear, we have prepared eight simple and oh-so Brown-related costume ideas that will totally make you the hottest Brunonian around. We’ve even added a pick-up lines! Take a look after the jump. [Read more →]
It’s been midterm season for a few weeks now (and it will be until December, judging by what I’ve heard about some classes), and I know I’m starting to lose the studious edge I had back at the beginning of the semester. I don’t think I’m alone in this. Lots of students are finding themselves on three different subreddits at once, with BlogDailyHerald (of course) and last night’s episode of The Daily Show up on other tabs. Adderall is a no-go, so how are you supposed to keep focused? You could, of course, pay someone to literally slap you whenever you procrastinate. Maneesh Sethi has done just that, and at $8/hour too! He says his productivity shot up from 36% to 98% once he had a dedicated face-slapper focus consultant.
And no, we are not missing the irony in talking about this in a time-waster.
Over the summer, I was psyched to upgrade to the sleek Macbook Air for note-taking in class. I thought I would be so much more organized with a computer—no longer would my different subjects overlap in my single clusterfuck of a composition book. The point is that I went in with the best intentions, but it wasn’t long before the power of the internet corrupted my poor freshman soul.
In the first week of school, I didn’t even bother connecting to Wi-Fi in lectures because I only wanted to take notes. Eventually, I wanted to pull up the Powerpoints from the lectures, but once I unleashed Safari, it was only matter of minutes before my Gmail was open. To be fair, I wasn’t emailing anyone, I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a package waiting for me at Grad Center. Gmail may seem harmless, but it is a gateway drug. All of a sudden, I was addicted to being on Facebook in class, and I sure as shit can’t absorb what my professors are saying when I am busy “tsk-tsking” at overly provocative photos from Dayglow (kids these days with their dubstep music and their paint covered orgies). You know that when you’ve resorted to playing Jewel Quest II and going on a mini study abroad trip using Google Maps, you may as well not show up to class, because if Gmail is a gateway drug, meme-generating websites are the equivalent of crystal meth.
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