A visual history of MIT pranks(boston.com)

29 pointsby vlad18 anni fa9 comments

boston.com

A visual history of MIT pranks

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/100308_mit_hacks/

9 comments

AlexeyMK18 anni fa

The firetruck seems difficult to pull off, even with a helicopter. Perhaps its a 3D cardboard model? Anyone know?

rglovejoy18 anni fa

It was a replica; see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/PDF/N37.pdf for a better photo.

AlexeyMK18 anni fa

From the newspaper: Lehman Brothers 2006 ad. Golden: http://screencast.com/t/K7LKB5ncGqj

smanek18 anni fa

If you're into these sort of pranks look at these books:

http://www.amazon.com/Nightwork-History-Hacks-Pranks-MIT/dp/...

http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/shop_product_detail...

nick576818 anni fa

Something I remember from when I was touring colleges, the hiking club at Harvey Mudd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College) was called "Delta H".

juliend218 anni fa

respect to the l33tness of MIT students

unalone18 anni fa

I've never found the Ivy League that interesting - I'm sure they're all good schools, but beyond that they've never seemed particularly unique compared to similar top-notch liberal arts schools - but MIT and CalTech have always fascinated me.

In particular, the Rose Bowl incident from CalTech. I've always wanted to meet the instigators of that particular incident.

ashishk18 anni fa

Glad to see MIT kids have such a spunky culture.

vaksel18 anni fa

seems like they are fans of putting things on top of that dome.