Sidney-Pacific Six Word Memoirs of the Past Year (2011-2012)

Inspired by the Six Word Memoir Project, we recently challenged several officers and volunteers to summarize this past year in Sidney-Pacific in exactly six words. These phrases could refer to the dorm more generally, or to a specific event or series of events that occurred over the past year; in the latter case, we put the specific event/program to which the submission refers in brackets, [ ]. Many thanks to all the volunteers who contributed submissions: Amy Bilton, Diana Chien JP Coutu, Tim Curran, Chelsea He, Ian Jacobi, Jit Hin Tan, Holly Johnsen, David Kwabi, George Lan, Ramesh Sridharan, Tanya Shatova, Brian Spatocco, Sunny Vanderboll, and several anonymous authors.

Self-reflexively strained backronyms and apronyms

SP Brunch

  • Sweet, Infinite, Delicious Procrastination: Activities CONSTANTLY
  • Students In (a) Dorm Planning And Caring
  • Seriously Incredible Dorm, Priced At Cost
  • Solipsistic Iconoclasts Seeking Pedestrian Athletic Conditioning [SP GetFit – Spring 2012]
  • Surely I’ve Demonstrated Pancakes Are Crucial [Brunch]
  • Sometimes Idiots Do PhDs. Accepting Calamity
  • … Soon Investigate Dorm Posses; Alternative Career??

Individuals sometimes come together for philanthropy

House Cup Food Drive

  • Flour: good for baking and winning [House Cup Food Donation Contest – November 2011]
  • 1967 pounds. Bring it on, 2012. [House Cup Food Donation Contest – November 2011]
  • Who needs sleep, up all night [Relay for Life – February 2012]
  • 20 pasta boxes can feed 100 [Cooking for CASPAR – March 2012]
  • From Philosophical Debates to Donated Crates [House Cup Clothing Drive – April 2012]

Delightfully awkward shout-outs to over-achieving SP-helpers

  • Communications majors rock! See David Rosen [CoSI Dinner Discussion on the Bubble in Higher Education – November 2011]
  • Tim’s workouts: lift today, hurt tomorrow [SP Getfit – Spring 2012]
  • Dave Rosen: 2 LeJit 2 Quit [Boston marathon – April 2012 and Trivia Night Coffee Hour – April 2012]
  • JP, sorry for not recycling.
  • Worst getfit team I’ve been on
  • SP graduates the brightest party planners

Places we have gone, achievements unlocked

Camping Trip to Mt. Monadnock

  • Unlimited chocolate? Dreams do come true! [Taza Chocolate Factory Tour – June 2011]
  • “To be awake is to be alive” [Quote from Thoreau’s “Walden,” Walden Pond Bike Trip – June 2011]
  • Triathlon training? Nope, ice cream pursuit [Bike Trip to Kimball Farm – September 2011]
  • There’s no crying in photo-scavenger hunts [September 2011]

    Dim Sum Outing

  • Smoke in eyes, lemon detergent shishkabobs [Camping Trip to Mt. Monadnock – October 2011]
  • Autumn foliage more colorful than expected [Arboretum Trip – November 2011]
  • Cretaceous and delicious. Jurassic and fantastic [Trip to Harvard Natural History Museum and Burdick’s Chocolate – January 2012]
  • Dodgeball: way more fun on trampolines [Winter officer’s retreat at SkyZone – January 2012]
  • Linsanity spreads like wildfire, fuels rivalries [Interest Groups Knicks vs. Celtics Game – March 2012]
  • Sunday fare? Durian buns, chicken feet! [Interest Groups Dim Sum Outing – April 2012]

Aborted passive-aggressive haikus from cantankerous residents

  • I will feed you lots of food
  • Please be my friend
  • Shh be quiet, it’s bedtime
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  • Confuscious once asked
  • How does one trash a trash can?
  • SP Janitors
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  • Too HOT! COLD! First world problems
  • Compost? I thought food was trash!
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  • Your friendly, anonymous SP-forums posters

Compendium of major events for self-aggrandizement

Magic Show

  • Sing like no one is listening [SP Karaoke Night –July 2011]
  • Asian street food satisfies masses, over-subscribed [Asian Street Food Festival – July 2011]
  • 23 events, 21 days, 1 Orientation [September 2011]
  • Halloween pumpkin carving, orange goo everywhere [Halloween Pumpkin Carving Coffee Hour – October 2011]
  • Artistic pizza, chefs in the making [House Cup Pizza Making Contest – October 2011]

    CoSI Lecture with Professor Noam Chomsky

  • Snowstorm? Pshh, nothing stops SP superheroes! [Superheroes 5k Race – November 2011]
  • Scientists, do you believe in magic? [Magic Show – November 2011]
  • Krispy, colorful pi henge; soon eaten [House Cup Pi Day Dessert Contest – March 2012]
  • Onward, upward to the next decade [SP’s 10 year Anniversary Reunion Weekend – July 2012]
  • Twenty pounds of bacon, challenge accepted [Monthly brunches]
  • Serving 25 people/minute since 2001 [Monthly brunches and large social events]
  • Nalebuff, Duflo, Chomsky; fire code violation [CoSI’s distinguished lecture series]
  • lolcats ponder a lot of things [Monthly house council meetings]