What you need to know to live your life today.

What to do:

1. Get your butt out of bed and buy your Flight of the Conchords tickets: Sales start at 10:30 a.m. at the Norris Box Office, but you better line up early.
2. Meet Erik Larson: If you loved his deliciously creepy book, Devil in the White City, set in Chicago, meet him in Fisk 111 at 12 p.m.
3. Start registering for classes: Make friends with CAESAR and whoever is in charge of permission numbers.

What to know:

1. Read our Liveblog of the Oscars! Or just look at photos of the pretty (and — more importantly — ugly) dresses.
2. Some people are crazy enough to jump into Lake Michigan…in February
3. Bienen delivers his state of the university address: Or read a different take.