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This is the first installment of Cooking with Copy, a new column written by Student Life’s copy chiefs and food fiends, Lauren Cohn and Caro Peguero. We’re sure you’ve visited Boosters Cafe and eaten the legendary pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes, unless you’re a pumpkin purist and order the batch sans chocolate.

The Delmar Loop is a picturesque street located a few hundred feet from the Danforth Campus. Thanks to the Greenway Walk, the Loop is perfect for a first place for freshmen to break out of the Wash. U. bubble. Later, it’s a staple of upperclassmen’s social lives, with some of them residing here as well.

If you’re driving and are having trouble finding somewhere to park, there’s a parking lot on North Campus, which is right behind the Pageant. It almost always has spots because few non-Wash. U. people know to park there.

The Quidditch players scurry about the field, clutching broomsticks as they chase after the Quaffle, a volleyball. A few players run around, throwing Bludgers (rubber kickballs) at others to knock the Quaffle from their hands. Meanwhile, the Snitch, a person dressed in all yellow, runs sporadically around and outside of the field in an attempt to evade capture.

In “It’s Hard Being the Kane,” a song recorded by 80’s rapper Big Daddy Kane, Kane spits out the line “my vocabulary will just have you very/dazed and amazed so I fear no adversary.” No lyrics could better describe the later rap styling of Henry Biggs, currently an assistant dean and the associate director in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy here at Wash.

Most men I know don’t like to think about fashion, and they just buy whatever pleases them. As the weather changes, most of you will want to (or need to) replace the heavy boots, layers and thick sweatshirts with light cotton pants and shirts and sneakers. But you’ve got to do it right.

The Central West End offers a variety of dining and entertainment options, from Indian food to movies at the Chase Park Plaza. Only at the Majestic, however, can one pit one’s wits against others’ in fierce cerebral combat. Quick! What do the letters CMYK stand for? How comprehensive is your knowledge of ’80s pop music? Can you make a pun at a moment’s notice?

Winter is truly here. The sidewalks and stairs are starting to become icy at night. Fraternity rush will keep those meccas of partying closed until after bids.

If freezing temperatures and icy roads aren’t proof enough that spring semester is in full swing, Facebook photo albums of your junior friends’ studies abroad will settle the debate. From the beer halls of Munich to the warm weather in Australia, there are plenty of reasons to envy your friends overseas.

Sure, it snowed last week and it’s freezing outside and the first thing on your mind is a thick woolen scarf. Still, any true fashionista knows that it’s never too early to start planning your wardrobe for the next season.