Yesterday was the birthday of one of my suitemates for next year. He is from Milan, Italy so we (everyone in our suite for next year) decided to take him out to Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana, ranked as the best pizza place in America by CBS news. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/22/new-haven-pizza-named-best-in-america/
We got the white clam pizza for which Pepe's is so famous, and we sang him happy birthday in our best Italian we could speak. It went something like "boppity boopity, bop bop!.. a spaghetti....a ravioli" while sang to the tune of Happy Birthday. He laughed and was embarrassed by us since the entire restaurant became very quiet while we sang in fake-Italian. Then we ate cake! We got him a cake that had an inside joke from earlier in the year about him going back to Italy.

I went to the main library on campus, Sterling Memorial Library, tonight to study, but ended up wasting about 45 minutes perusing through the stacks of collections. I always see something that catches my eye and then I forget to study. There are just rows and rows of very interesting old collections:

Tonight I came across multiple things, including the entire collection of Harper's Weekly, a periodical that ran from 1857-1916 and is most famous for its coverage of the Civil War. The volume below is the edition from January 6th, 1900. It is about the U.S. conquest of the Philippines during the Spanish-AmericanWar. A U.S. history fanatic would have a field day flipping through the various volumes.

 I also came across a pocket-sized almanac from 1807. 

I also flipped through an English newspaper from 1818.

Bottom line? I shouldn't study at Sterling anymore unless I have plenty of time to kill. With about 3.5 million volumes housed in that one library, I could spend weeks perusing through the book stacks.