Click your heels three times. And go back to Oz.

WTF you have a TAIL.

Congratulations to Winthrop House for winning the intramural Straus Cup for the FOURTH year in a row!

Winthrop takes its intramural sports seriously, rarely if ever forfeiting a game. The air of competition permeates the house between ex-varsity athletes, casual players, and people who have never really done the whole “sports” thing before. Winthrop IM sports are for everyone and as much as the lions love to win, the first priority is for everyone to support the black and red and have fun.

And that’s the way IM sports are supposed to be played.

Winthrop is truly the Haus of Straus, and residents cannot wait to see the cup returned to their dining hall, cleaned, polished, and shiny in all of its sporty glory.

Lions for the Cup!

Nice 4-peat Winthrop!

Some people feel entitled to receive fabulous gifts upon being accepted to Ivy League Institutions. Rachel Hachero, a 17 year old from Fort Meyers, Florida took it a step too far, however and expected to receive a 2004 Nissan 350z sports car…

Yeah, she aimed high. And when her mother was unwilling to co-sign the loan for the ridiculously ostentatious piece of metal, Rachel got violent. That is, she pulled out a 9mm gun, pistol whipped her mother across the face, and made her drive to the dealership at gunpoint where she placed the gun in her purse and her mother signed the loan. Congratulations, she owns a car. Her mother alerted the authorities while Rachel was at school the next day, claiming that she didn’t want her daughter to be prosecuted because it would jeopardize her Ivy League acceptances and scholarship offers. That ship may have already set sail…

Mugshot FTW

Too bad. The fuzz promptly locked Rachel up in a juvenile detention facility and confiscated the gun. By the way, the gun was stolen from a Lee County Port Authority Law Enforcement officer in early July 2010. So WTF is up with that?

Crazybitch Video HERE

It’s unclear which Ivies Rachel was accepted to, but it’s safe to assume that she won’t be present for Visitas this year.

Tonight (We’re Throppin’ You) from Winthrop HoCo on Vimeo.

There’s an elephant in the room. But really. The Eliot House elephant is making an appearance in Science Center B for USW23: Art and Thought of the Cold War He’s chillin’ and listening to lecture.

Happy in lecture? This can't be real.

And oh look, there’s the Pfoho Polar Bear in Ec 10 lecture (silly bear, you’re too late for snow!).

Checkin' out Mankiw.

Housing Day has apparently turned into Housing Week. It’s on. What’s next?

Mather’s taking it to the shore (GTL!). What do you think?

Uh…..

It seems that the interwebs have become inundated with matchmaking sites lately. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s another one. The newest site, nChooseTwo allows members to not only list their own crushes (up to 10 at once!), but to suggest matches between your friends and their crushes (or people who you think they would look oh-so-adorable with). The site is open to all students of Harvard and MIT (expanding our opportunities, no?); just register with your student email address. There is no list of names and there are no awkward photos – just the potential to catalyze matches you’ve been mulling over in your head but didn’t know how to initiate.

nChooseTwo

According to the site, “Privacy and security are our top priorities – no information about romantic intent is revealed unless the attraction is mutual, and we are constantly considering user feedback to make our site more useful and more secure.” It’s a win-win situation. No embarrassment if the match is not accepted. Here’s a sample matchmaking scenario from the site:

For example,

say Eve suggests a match between Adam and Beth. Eve shows up as an anonymous matchmaker to Adam and Beth.

If Adam clicks ‘Accept’ and Beth does not, Beth and Eve never find out that Adam clicked ‘Accept’. And vice-versa.

Instead, if Adam and Eve both click Accept, then Eve’s identity is revealed to them. Adam, Beth, and Eve are notified that this match is succesful, and good times are had by all.

Patty's not here, so we'll just have to fend for ourselves.

No harm, no foul. It’s almost time for Valentine’s Day, everyone, so let’s get to matching up our friends and even ourselves! Harvard has the potential for romance. It just needs an anonymous kick-start.

UPDATE: nChooseTwo has extended its services to the BU community!