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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 →]

Reading period.  The final days of your year at Brown have come upon you and even though the count may be diminishing, the assignments seem to keep piling up.  Not to worry because BlogDailyHerald has compiled a list of ways to keep your head above water during finals period in the Ocean State.

First things first: CLOTHING – this sets the tone for the entire day. Try not to get too fancy with it, because no one really cares what you look like  when they’re trying to cram a month’s worth of reading into 5 hours at the Rock.  Some dressing ideas after the jump.

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Need to get shit done? Most of students pack their bags and trudge off to the SciLi or the Rock in hopes that they’ll escape the endless hours of browsing through time-wasters in their rooms. But as those afflicted with the student syndrome know, nothing stops them from starting on their work until the last possible second. At the Rock, where hundreds of periodicals are displayed prominently next to the study area, even those who snort adderall should find it difficult to concentrate and not procrastinate.

Here’s a round-up of the top five periodicals that could potentially consume hours of your time that could be used to finish that paper that’s been on your to-do list since February:

5) New American Paintings presents the best 40 works of contemporary American art entered into their competition each year. You can easily spend hours marveling at the mesmerizing pieces of work featured in this publication.

4) Unless you’re a math or philosophy concentrator, nothing in the Journal of Symbolic Logic should make sense to you. But that shouldn’t stop chronic procrastinators from trying to figure our just what a “complicated ω-stable depth 2 theory” is.

3) Okay. Maybe you are a math major and you already subscribe to the Journal of Symbolic Logic as well as the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic and the Review of Symbolic Logic. Try understanding it in German, and try figuring out symbolic logic in Zeitschrift für mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik!

2) Are you a senior or a freshman already worrying about life after graduation? Occupational Outlook Quarterly gives you the latest in prospects in the job marketplace and tips on how to epic win your next interview.

1) Spring break just ended, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start thinking about next year’s spring break. Why not check out the Journal for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies so you can start booking airplane tickets and get the early bird discount? While you’re at it, take a look at the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

You may have already seen the gloriously good news in Morning Mail, but today and tomorrow mark the most exciting in free food adventures. What, you might ask? Pizza in the libraries! This event not only comes at a crucial time — finals, no meal credits, etc. — but also fulfills the perverse pleasure of eating in and going raucous in the library. For the Friedman Study Center that’s nothing new but for the Rock, well, might as well declare it opposite day. Advice from a veteran attendee: get to the library of the evening early and expect to push and shove.

Pizza in the Libraries
Wednesday, May 12: Rock lobby, 9 p.m.
Thursday, May 13: Friedman Study Center, basement level, 9 p.m.

It’s a sad state of affairs when the writing on the Rock bathroom wall seems to be appearing faster than the lines in our blank word documents. But it’s not too surprising — finals do seem to bring out the angst in us all. And now, it’s easier than ever: some enterprising ladies took it upon themselves to install a few golf pencils in the basement women’s room.

So on your next break, you too can contribute to the list of the hottest boys at Brown. Not that we’re keeping track of it or anything.