[FLUG] [OT] Top 10 MIT Hacks

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10) 1962: On Halloween, the Great Dome was turned into the Great Pumpkin.

9) 2000: Student Center elevators were turned into "cybervators". Each floor 
selection prompted a summary of what might be found on that floor and 
sometimes a sarcastic remark like, "There's a basement? Who knew?"

8) 1998: On April Fool's Day, MIT's homepage was rebuilt to announce that the 
Walt Disney Company had purchased the institute for $6.9 billion.

7) 1982: At the same game, students handed out placards to 1,131 Harvard fans, 
who were told they would form the message BEAT YALE when flashed en masse. 
The spectators discovered (too late) that they spelled out MIT.

6) 1982: A 6-foot weather balloon was inflated by remote control at the 46 
yard line during the second quarter of a Harvard-Yale game.

5) 1972: The Bruno, "a unit of volume equal to the size of the dent in the 
asphalt resulting from the six-story free fall of an upright piano",  was 
first calculated. It measures 1,158 cubic centimetrs. (The piano, traveling 
at 43 mph on impact, released 45,000 foot-pounds of energy.)

4) 1958: Freshmen Oliver Smoot's body was used to measure the lenght of the 
nearby Harvard Bridge. Total distance: 364.4 Smoots plus 1 ear.

3) 1995: Three giant Scrubbing Bubbles were affixed to the exterior walls of 
the MIT Media Lab, known for its tiled look.

2) 1994: A look alike of a campus police car was hauled atop the Great Dome. 
The cruiser was outfitted with a mannequin, a box of half-eaten doughnut, and 
a parking ticket that read NO PERMIT FOR THIS LOCATION.

1) 1992: In an elaborate escapade called Cathedral of Our Lady of  the 
All-night Tool, Lobby 7 was converted into a pagan basilica, complete with 
pews, altar, confessional, and tablets of hexadecimally numbered commandments 
("Thou shalt not divide by zero", "Thou shalt not exceed the speed of 
light"). In MIT-speak, a tool is a study-aholic.





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