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Planning for Hilarity

The College’s free daybook dishes out advice, campus info, and questionable holidays

But if you’re stuck with allergies, you apparently shouldn’t even go outside unless it’s early morning or late afternoon. Maybe now professors will finally accept histamines as an excuse for missing paper deadlines.

Then there are the national days the planner chose to recognize. Interestingly, National Depression Screening Day is followed by World Smile Day, because there’s no better way to get out of a funk than following the advice of a wacky holiday.

Oct. 19 is Evaluate Your Life Day. Maybe National Depression Screening Day should have followed that.

Nov. 17 is Queer Thanksgiving. Even a Google search didn’t reveal what Queer Thanksgiving entailed (Carson and the Queer Eye Gang had their Thanksgiving spectacular on the 23rd last year, so that possibility is out. Pun not intended). In completely unrelated news, March 26 is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.

Finally, Nov. 20 is Name Your PC Day. Apparently, this gives us the opportunity to call our computers something besides POS. Why didn’t we buy a Mac?

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All in all, the planner is a wonderful creation. It is useful, and it will open dialogue on many important and unimportant issues. And when worse comes to worse and Harvard students are really bored, we can always turn to it for a chuckle (Preferably on April 14. That’s International Moment of Laughter Day).

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