19May
2012

Graduation Quotes, Revisited

Here is The ‘Cac’s take on the season’s most trite inspiration and sage advice. You won’t find this shit in any Hallmark card: 1. Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll land among the non-profits. 2. The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of Ramen and a shared Netflix account. 3.  I took the [road] less traveled by, and that has cost a lot in dorm damage fees. 4.  The roots of education are bitter, but [...]

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18May
2012

Transferring

Not really. I’m sorry that in the hassle of finals, packing up, and oh–small detail–1/4 of the ‘Cac population “moving on,” this is all that I have to offer you… With that said, 7,200 chocolate elephants certainly aren’t nothing, and Polar Bear that I am this picture did give me pause (our edible mascots are white chocolate…white chocolate isn’t chocolate). Tufts Dining allotted one of these locally made mini-Jumbos  to each of the boxed lunches they pass out at Commencement.  Get in [...]

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May 16, 2012

CockTales

In my three years in the ‘Cac, I’ve realized that a liberal arts education equips you with a strange blend of sociability, tenacity, and an entrepreneurial spirit. If you want something, you go and you get it. If there isn’t a club for XYZ, you start it. If they aren’t selling the right kid of vineyard vines apparel in the bookstore, you immediately talk to the manager and fix it immediately. In short: ask, pester, and follow up, and ye [...]

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May 15, 2012

When School Ends….

Okay. I’m going to try and not sound like a whiney kid – but this is absolutely ridiculous. Amherst College is struggletown when it comes to the end of the year. Students stay after finals in order to work Commencement and Reunion, helping the grounds crew, the facilities dorm clean-up, in the Library, in the Admissions Office, for the Student Newspaper, etc. There are also some athletes here still competing. I happen to fall under both categories, so I am [...]

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May 14, 2012

New Social Shopping Site Hits ‘Cac

Unless you’re clustered around a laptop in the library (in which case, please stop talking), online shopping has taken the social aspect out of what used to be the job of 5 great friends and a good smoothie. Two of Bowdoin’s finest entrepreneurs have set out to change that with the creation of RompBomp, a social shopping site for the .edu set (and NOT just women!). Sam Hanson ’11 and Hartley Brody ’12 know that feedback is to shopping, as social media [...]

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May 13, 2012

The T-Shirt Commercial We Didn’t Have to Make

I know I ragged on the “I’m Shmacked” series a little bit, but that was before I considered things from a commercial standpoint… If you ever needed a reason to buy a ‘Cac t-shirt: 1:00, 1:22, and really the rest of the video because that limited edition shirt will get you to the front of the room 100% of the time. Stay tuned as we expand merch, in the meantime e-mail inthecac@gmail.com to find out if we have t-shirts on [...]

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May 11, 2012

What should we ‘Cac me?

The NESCAC is in no way unfamiliar with small, exclusive microblogs that pop up every now and again written for and by the students at their school. These blogs are shifting now from being article and text based to being blogs filled with gifs and one sentence titles. If you haven’t heard or read the words gif and meme by now chances are you still use AOL as a browser and refer to the Internet as the World Wide Web [...]

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May 11, 2012

Eph Offers Up Political Comedy

Back in September, The Washington Post reported on the Hollywood aspirations of Jon Lovett (Williams ’04): “A young and witty speechwriter for an eloquent but exhausted president escapes a struggling White House and stodgy capital city for Hollywood, where he beats the odds to find fame and fortune writing comedy for more bankable stars. So might read the script treatment about the aspirations of Jon Lovett, an Obama speechwriter and the reigning champion of official Washington’s stand-up comedy circuit. In [...]

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Transferring

May 18, 2012 0 Comments

Not really. I’m sorry that in the hassle of finals, packing up, and oh–small detail–1/4 of the ‘Cac population “moving on,” this is all that I have to offer you… With that said, 7,200 chocolate elephants certainly aren’t nothing, and Polar Bear that I am this picture did give me pause (our edible mascots are white chocolate…white chocolate isn’t chocolate). Tufts Dining allotted one of these locally made mini-Jumbos  to each of the boxed lunches they pass out at Commencement.  Get in [...]

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Graduation Quotes, Revisited

May 19, 2012 0 Comments

Here is The ‘Cac’s take on the season’s most trite inspiration and sage advice. You won’t find this shit in any Hallmark card: 1. Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll land among the non-profits. 2. The future belongs to those that believe in the beauty of Ramen and a shared Netflix account. 3.  I took the [road] less traveled by, and that has cost a lot in dorm damage fees. 4.  The roots of education are bitter, but [...]

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Ham Women’s Golf Goes Varsity

May 11, 2012 0 Comments

Hamilton’s athletic department has announced that Women’s Golf, currently a club sport, will become a varsity sport. The change will take effect this fall. Football coach Steve Stetson will be shifting gears to direct both the Men’s and Women’s golf programs. “From pigskin to putters,” so the expression goes…

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Timeflies Does “Call Me Maybe”

April 25, 2012 0 Comments

0:34 you can tell Cal’s thinking “does this have scotch in it?” The best part about this Timeflies Tuesday is that the guys posted their phone number and took calls. Two questions: 1. Is your refrigerator running? 2. Is this better than the original?

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