Apparently there is a world outside of SciLi, and it’s rich with wildlife sightings. Put down your Orgo textbook and set aside the annotated bibliography: Jessica Titlebaum ’14 has breaking news:
This Luna moth was found outside SciLi this morning! Will most likely rest here until night time when it will seek out a female. What a beautiful sighting.
Here’s another angle of the Luna moth. In semi-related Wesleyan wildlife news, the mysterious Wes Squirrels Facebook has become impressively active this month in the wake of the Great Sam Lyons ’12 Squirrel/Vulture Affair of 2012. Squirrels’ Facebook interests include “finding your acorn,” “eating acorns,” and “tree climbing.” Here’s a small gallery of recent squirrel sightings, many of which appeared originally on the University’s photo Tumblr. In most photos, the squirrel is not being picked apart by a fucking vulture. (I didn’t take these photos; I’m just scrolling through the squirrel’s tagged photos.)
PS: If anyone spots the LoRise possum (or hir Exley friend), give hir a hand with hir social media presence. It’s lacking.
PPS: This is probably an appropriate time to remind you to follow @common_squirrel on the Twitbook.
Sure, I thought you’d never ask. Below: a few choice snapshots from Wesleyan’s biannual PrimalScream, which hit the Olin steps at midnight on Monday. Send your own pics to staff(at)wesleying(dot)org. Above: a brief video clip from the start of the scream. Also worth noting: click through to Wesleying’s YouTube channel to find a few brief video clips from Indoor SpringFling 2012. Don’t be surprised if they’re dark and poorly lit, much like finals week.
Remember how excited you were when you got into Wes back in Spring 20__? You immediately joined the WesAdmits20__ Facebook group, and absurdityensued. There were those handful of kids who friended everybody in the group (including over-zealous freshman “upperclassmen” ready to share their first-year wisdom). The oh-so-necessary roommate survey thread started (wait, Wes randomly assigns roommates?!). “What colleges did you pick Wes over” (lol I was rejected from Brown too). “Let’s meet-up prior to spending four years together!” “About how many quarters do you think I’ll need for a year’s worth of laundry” (wtf is this M-Town Ca$$)? As the illustrious Laiya Ackman ’15 notes: “Freshman are fucking weird.”
Thanks to the brilliant minds of other jaded college students, there is now a whole site devoted to making fun of the rising freshman class: Freshmemes, the cleaned-up version of Accepted2016. Hours of giggles at your future classmates are now possible!
Even final exams offer no respite from that guy Evan Weber ’13 doing nice things for you all the time. This has got to stop. More from Lil’ Webbie:
Dear students,
This year the WSA’s Transportation Committee has partnered with Stor-U-Self Storage – Portland to offer shuttle services so that students without their own transportation can easily have a home for their belongings over the summer (and while abroad).
Stor-U-Self will provide a $15 shuttle service for your belongings from 10am-6pm on the 17th and 18th (Thursday and Friday) and potentially also offer services on Saturday if there is strong demand. They will also offer this service in the Fall (or Spring) when you return to campus.
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For the much of Postponed’s first season, we’ve been watching lovable goofs Chris (Chris Correa ’10) and Robby (Robby Hardesty ’12) gallop around Wesleyan’s campus, stirring up trouble in an attempt to survive life after college. For the season finale, you’d expect more butt pirates of the same. Right? Wrong.
This finale is the opposite of Digornio. By which I mean, it delivers. And what it delivers is a combination of swanky party and epic heist. I don’t want to spoil anything, so instead I’ll draw you a metaphor picture. Imagine the hit movie Ocean’s 11. It’s a lot like that. No, they don’t steal the Bellagio, and no, Brad Pitt doesn’t appear in all his rugged handsomeness, but this final episode still delivers feisty, heisty, Oceany goods. If I recall George Clooney’s famous line from Ocean’s 11 correctly, “Tonight, we dine in Hell!”
Dine away, you internet scavengers, and enjoy this epic finale. The web series put out a call for extras just last week, so maybe you’ll spot yourself.
If you need to catch up, you can find the previous episodes here and here. As always, Postponed features Chris Correa ’10, Brian Velsor ’11, and Ian Park ’11 as directors; Gabe Elder ’11, Brian Velsor, and Ian Park as editors; Chris Correa and Brian Velsor as writers; and Robby Hardesty ’12 and Chris Correa as actors.
Enjoyed some finals munchies last night? Didn’t get a chance to enjoy ‘em? Good news, another chance from Nica Latto ’13:
Finals got you down? Need a cheesy pickup to your night? We’ll be selling gourmet mac n’ cheese and greek pizza slices to kick-start your studying and satisfy your finals munchies, delivered to either Olin or Sci Li!
- Gourmet mac n’ cheese with caramelized onions ~ $3
- Greek-style pizza with feta, spinach and onions ~ $3
- Brownies ~ $1
Text 978-870-8881 to place your order and arrange delivery (to Olin or Sci Li). Help us finance our road trip across the country!
Date: Monday, May 14TUESDAY, May 15 (tonight!)
Time: 11pm – 2am
Place: Olin or Sci Li
Cost: $3 for pizza or mac n’ cheese, $1 for brownies
Speedy Ortiz is the project of long-time Sound Coop member Dan Ferm ’12 and a bunch of other friends from Northampton, MA. Appropriately, the band sounds a whole lot like fellow western Massachusetts noise-makers Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, plus others from the early ’90s indie/lo-fi cloth—earnest melodies swamped in dense, fuzzy overdrive, with melodic vocal lines and inventive guitar tuning. Don’t believe me? Listen to “Taylor Swift,” which sounds not very much like its namesake at all:
Speedy Ortiz plans to release a 10″ EP on vinyl, CD, and hopefully tape at the end of the month, so start dusting your cassette players. The band has been spotted performing in various houses on campus, and hopefully more before graduation. The band is also planning to tour cross-country this summer, so members have set up one of them fancy Kickstarter thingamajigs to raise $4,000 to bring noise to your freaking hometown:
VANS ACROSS AMERICA! Speedy Ortiz wants to bring our rock show to a city near you this summer, and we can’t do that without a van! And hopefully a van with decent gas mileage since gas just might cost more than ever this year. But if we can bring the rock out on the road to you, it will be totally worth it!
The UPS Store will be on campus starting Monday 05/14 in the Lobby outside the Exley Science Center Library.We offer shipping services, summer storage, boxes for storage or shipping and other packing supplies. Please stop by for information!
Date: Today until Saturday Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Place: Exley Lobby Cost: Money
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