Ewww.

You’ve all seen them. Walking through the basement of Dunster on the way to your D-hall, in the entryways of freshman houses, and of course, in good old Winthrop. They are everywhere—those crumbled up, smooshed, brown spindly things that are clearly dead cockroaches.

Gross.

Noice is as freaked out by them as you are… so here are some helpful hints if you are disgusted enough to try a little at-home extermination. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mojito

Banana Daiquiris, Brandy Alexanders, and Caramel Apple-Tinis, each of which I savored at 5 p.m. on a Monday evening. No, I did not spend my night in a drunken stupor, but in a sweet sugar high from the cocktail cupcake happy hour at Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square.

As unfortunate as this may sound, I consider myself to be quite the cupcake snob. Being from LA, I am a wholehearted follower of the cupcake craze that swept the country and now the world. Cupcake shops have sprung up in Rome, Istanbul, Berlin, Seoul, and Sydney, and I’ve made a point to find the best. I’ve waited forty-five minutes for a Sprinkles cupcake in Beverly Hills, tried more artisanal varieties from local bakeries across the country, flocked to Sweet upon its grand opening and, of course, flew to New York for the mecca of cupcakes: Magnolia Bakery.

See the verdict on Kickass Cupcakes after the jump!

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Kawaii!

If you happened to be near the Yard any time between 3:30 and 4:30pm, chances are you witnessed the spectacle that was the hoard of Japanese students that descended upon our campus and dominated the Kodak moment space in front of our beloved John Harvard.

They migrated through the Yard, flooding the Science Center and creating a bottleneck in the bathroom. But no worries — their smiling faces, dark gray jackets with intricate yellow crests, and knee-high stockings made everything better.

These Sailor Moon-esque schoolchildren made Noice’s day. Visit again, young ‘uns!

Stay tuned for our next installment of Tourist of the Week: In Which The Tourists Become The Toured.

ETA: Another priceless shot.

Noice would like to present the first installment of our ongoing series called Bitchgrams: You Bitch, I Respond. In which you bitch and She Of The Ruthless Bitchgrams, Molly O’Donnell ’12, responds. Because honestly, we all have things we need to get off our chest and into the blogosphere. So send us your bitchgram today: thehvoicemail@gmail.com. As Shakespeare so aptly put it: The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely bitches.

"GTFO" says Blair and Chuck

And now, onward to our inaugural bitchgram!

Remember this?

From: Wei Gu <weigu11.fas.harvard.edu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:20 AM
Subject: Urgent Discrimination and Administrative Misconducts in GSAS, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
To:

Dear friends,

I am very sorry for the interruption! My name is Wei and I am writing
to you to try to get your support for my endeavor to return to school
after suffering from significant discrimination and misconducts of
some professors and administration officers in GSAS, Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Harvard University. It is difficult for a student to
fight against those discrimination and misconducts in a powerful
institution, but it is much easier for us to stand up and unite to
create a better academic environment for current and future students
and faculty members.

[...]

Yeah, we’re still a little confused, too. See our translation of this email and Bitchgrams’ response, after the jump.

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Due to popular demand, Harvard FML is now on Twitter! Two hips and a hooray for social media! Stay tuned for some of our favorite FML’s yet.

twitter.com/harvfml

Last week, Noice asked a simple question: “Gen Ed or Core?” Can you even tell the difference? Here are the results.

I guess this answers that second question. Gen Ed and the Core are maybe, probably, the same exact thing.

Participate in this week’s poll (in the sidebar): Would you rather have hot breakfast or more frequent shuttles?

Like most college students, we here at Noice like our fair share of partying. But, when taking a break from the grind to get down and dirty, we don’t want to have to be bothered by small tasks. Thankfully, a new delivery service has got us covered.

This guy needs a party. Badly.

30delivery, “Boston’s fastest late night no tip delivery service,” has all the ingredients for an epic night out. Just go to their website between 8pm and 3am, give them your name, address, and phone number, and wait for the party to arrive.

Although they don’t deliver alcohol, they do have Red Bull, Monster, Coke, and other mixers galore, and ice to try to take the sting out of Rubinoff. But 30delivery doesn’t want you to sit around and drink like this guy. So they’ve got red solo cups, ping pong balls, cigarettes, and playing cards to make even that overachieving kid from section party like a regular brosef.

All good drinking leads to mischievous behavior. 30delivery’s got you there, too! Condoms to play safe, toothpaste to keep making out fresh, and even dry cleaning to clean up those unseemly stains. After you’ve finished with your fun, they have Burger King, McDonalds, and Ben & Jerry’s for you to eat away your shame.