Sure it may be disgusting outside, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth the commute to some/all of the raaaagers going on this weekend! The campus is going to be hopping, but if you feel like meeting some of our neighbors across the Charles, feel free to crash Campus Preview Weekend at MIT!

Friday

Just Dance!
@ Lowell Dhall
8:30 – 12:00 AM
$5 Admission

SAA: Soiree
@ The Colonnade Hotel
9:30 – 1:00 AM
$12 Admission

GRAFFITI
@ Currier Gilbert Living Room
10:00 – 2:00 AM

EXPLICIT After-Party
@ Pfoho Moors 408
11:00 – 2:00 AM

Romp at the Masters Party
@ Sigma Chi House
10:00 – 2:00 AM

Masters and Mistresses: The Tiger Woods Story
@ Pfoho Belltower (Moors 410)
10:00 – 2:00 AM

Blackout
@ Kappa Sigma MIT (407 Memorial Drive)
10:00 – 1:00 AM

CEOs & Office Hoes
@ Club Rise
10:00 – 6:00 AM
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We all love holidays, we all love home, and we all love pecan pie. Highly probable generalizations aside, yet another to be added to the list is that we all hate waiting. As someone who will actively trade Space Mountain for the Alice in Wonderland teacups at Disneyland because of said hatred, I must thus turn to the only website that can alleviate this frustration – no, not Perez, as much as I love his coke-dripping and groin-heart-ing scribbles – but VeryNoice. So begins the Diary of a Holiday Traveller – oh, and all the things I’m thankful for.

3:37 pm: Dear Mom, I know you like to be prepared and arrive three hours before international flights … and domestic flights, and I wholeheartedly believed you and completely agreed about your fear of the Thanksgiving holiday travel rush. Which is why I listened and bought a 3 pm HSA Shuttle ticket for my 7:30 pm Logan flight -you know, just to be on the safe side. Well .. the shuttle took a whole 27 minutes, check-in took a whole 2 seconds (checked-in early, carry-on luggage only – wootwoot), security took 10 minutes – 3 not counting the wild-eyed cat lady in front of me who thought “taking off your shoes” meant opening your luggage and taking out every single pair of Reef and Old Navy flipflops in your suitcase – which leaves me with …. 3 HOURS and 53 MINUTES to kill. Danke.

3:40 pm: Decide to buy a Chai Tea Latte at Starbucks. It just looked so warmly lit and homey, and I’m a sucker for those red holiday cups – it’s like Christmas joy … in a cup. A pilot hands me a cup sleeve when I get my drink with a wink reminiscent of all things 80s and gag-worthy, and informs me that it’s his “early Christmas present to me.” Thanks dude.

3:48 pm: Thanks to AIrwaves – “the official sound of Boston Logan Airport,” I have learned that GOD (aka Google) has given the ultimate holiday gift to travelling college students with overly-prepared parents everywhere – FREE WIFI! None of this $7.50-for-the-day-when-you’re-really-only-spending-an-hour-(or 3 hours and 53 minutes)-in-the-airport-anyway shiet! YES! FREE! THANK YOU GOOGLE. Oh, and Airwaves I guess you get a thank you too. Read the rest of this entry »

HBO paid the Institute of Politics’ JFK Forum a visit this evening with an early screening of their newest documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama.

After a brief introduction by the film’s directors, the lights dimmed on a packed Forum, and the audience was given the chance to experience an insider’s point of view into the President’s journey to the Oval Office: from Iowa to “Yes We Can” to Super Tuesday to his speech on race to the nomination and finally, to the moments before he climbed the steps of Grant Park to give his acceptance address on Election Night. We were let into the speech writing process with McHottie speechwriter Jon Favreau, into the grassroots organizing process with behind-the-scenes campaigner extraordinaire, Ronnie Cho, into the “situation room” with David Plouffe & David Axelrod, and into the phone bank with an adorable nine-year-old who sent the Forum into fits of hysterics at his exasperated efforts at getting a woman on the other line to understand that “Barack Obama is running for President…President of the United States…the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”

Watch it on HBO (worth Hemenway-ing for 2 hours for!) November 3rd!

*Disclaimer: May make you nostalgic for the bygone days of nationwide hope and optimism. Consider yourself warned.

Guys, gals, tourists, and Dins alike were greeted with a pleasant pelvic-thrusting, slicked-hair sporting, and tight-pants wearing surprise this Thursday afternoon.

GREASE the Harvard student musical gave a teaser performance this afternoon featuring the entire GREASE cast. They serenaded and scintillated the massive crowd with favorites “Summer Nights” and “Grease Lightning.”

Senior Tali Friedman (“Sandy”) and freshman Ben Moss (“Danny”) embodied the sweet and innocent good girl and suave softie-inside tough guy that made this a classic story of boy re-meets girl for the ages.

And if this preview was any indication, this musical’s gearing to be one hell of a good time.

Enjoy!

PS -- You know the saying “lightning never strikes twice?” False. You’ll be able to catch the performance again today on the Science Center lawn @ 12 pm.

Bye bye Bombay. :(

BerryLine. Grendel’s Den. Bartley’s. Bombay Club. Domna. Few things better define the Harvard dining experience, and now, not only has Domna left her post at the gateway to the Great Hall (aka Annenberg), but it has just been announced that Bombay Club will soon be leaving our increasingly permeable Harvard bubble as well.

Since 1991, Bombay Club has occupied its central location on JFK right above Staples, serving authentic Indian food to Indian food fans and noobs alike. The Kapoor family came to Massachusetts from New Dehli, India, in 1978. Vinod Kapoor started out as a Fayva Shoe salesman until his brother-in-law loaned him $30,000 to open what became Kebab-N-Kurry in Boston’s Back Bay. Today, Bombay Club has become a bustling hotspot, and has been Zagat-rated, and won a number of “Best of Boston” awards.

This Cambridge landmark has hosted students and celebrities alike, enjoying visits from “Led Zeppelin’s lead singer Robert Plant, former Vice President Al Gore, legendary Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, a host of Bollywood personalities,” as well as “weekly visits from Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates.”

As a faint silver lining to this dark cloud of fantastic-Indian-food-lessness, the Kapoor family will be relocating Bombay Club to Boston’s South End, opening in November. The new Bombay Club will feature many of the same long time favorites, along with “an array of new items that will be introduced every other week after its opening.” They will also host a full bar every night, open until 1 am – how this wouldn’t have been perfect for Harvard Square is a mystery to me.

Nonetheless, this will have to serve as the excuse I’ve been looking for to make the shuttle-less Sunday morning trek from the Quad to enjoy their Sunday Brunch Buffet of delicious dosas, masalas, naan, and curries. And if the grieving process has not run its course by November, I suppose it’ll be the reluctant push I need to hop on the T and check this place out for myself.