The first classes of the winter trimester were held Tuesday, so we have only a few hours before real-time sanity returns. In the meantime, let me present some images from recent weeks with one thing in common: food. Parent volunteers throw prodigious banquets during finals exams called "Brain Breaks." Here's Sam helping himself to the buffet:
During a recent Brain Break, I counted seven cans of soda on a table occupied by three girls (who--by the way--are doing the hokey pokey.)
Brain Breaks are usually held in the Ruby and Bill Wise Community Center, which is known now as "the Wise." One exception: last spring's ice cream wagon on wheels (known as a Brain Freeze,) moved around campus and set up in front of the Meetinghouse. These three, with blue Gatorade, are in the Wise:
In his Gannett House basement apartment, Derek Mansell teaches a Spanish class to construct enchiladas using salsa verde and--here--a complex mole poblano (pronounced MOlay pobLANo).