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A visual history of MIT pranks

• juliend2 18y ago
  respect to the l33tness of MIT students
  • unalone 18y ago
    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.
• AlexeyMK 18y ago
  The firetruck seems difficult to pull off, even with a helicopter. Perhaps its a 3D cardboard model? Anyone know?
  • rglovejoy 18y ago
    It was a replica; see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/PDF/N37.pdf http://tech.mit.edu/V126/PDF/N37.pdf for a better photo.
    • AlexeyMK 18y ago
      From the newspaper: Lehman Brothers 2006 ad. Golden: http://screencast.com/t/K7LKB5ncGqj http://screencast.com/t/K7LKB5ncGqj
• nick5768 18y ago
  Something I remember from when I was touring colleges, the hiking club at Harvey Mudd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College) was called "Delta H".
• vaksel 18y ago
  seems like they are fans of putting things on top of that dome.
• ashishk 18y ago
  Glad to see MIT kids have such a spunky culture.
• smanek 18y ago
  If you're into these sort of pranks look at these books: http://www.amazon.com/Nightwork-History-Hacks-Pranks-MIT/dp/0262661373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224388127&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Nightwork-History-Hacks-Pranks-MIT/dp/... http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/shop_product_detail.asp?mscssid=TTUJ7RVWWPWC9G6T76XFGR9QLMKC41U5&catalog_group_id=Mg&catalog_group_name=R2VuZXJhbCBCb29rcw&catalog_id=123&catalog_name=Q2FsdGVjaCBBdXRob3Jz&product_name=TGVnZW5kcyBPZiBDYWx0ZWNo&pf_id=CAL0020T*999&type=3&target=shop_main.asp http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/shop_product_detail...