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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
MIT may have done so early on? I can't remember, but I'm probably not going there
There's a ton of interesting extracurricular stuff. The Mystery Hunt. Model Railroad Club with an impressive setup. An anime club with an impressive and actively maintained library and big-screen showings. Robotics contests. A square dancing club that lets singles participate (and you can get physical education credit for being in it). A chamber music club and a symphony orchestra. A dorm that puts on its own theater production in-house every year. A stuff-swap/freecycling service that people actually regularly use, from which you can get lots of interesting items and raw materials for your pet projects. A number of dorms that allow you to construct all sorts of pet projects for enhancing your dorm, from simple bed lofts to hooking up a laptop and speakers to the bathroom door so that you can enjoy your favorite tunes while you shower. A fundraising contest for professor-hating. Indoor capture-the-flag that works even in the depth of winter thanks in part to generously-connected basements and tunnels. DIY wooden roller coasters and ziplines. Elaborate Rube Goldberg machines on the friday after Thanksgiving. Free programming classes. Pretty famous Smash players. And people staying up until absurd hours of morning discussing game design.
And last but certainly not least, a strong tradition of elegant and clever pranks, with an associated tradition of exploration, complete with a safety code.
(No, I did not participate in all of these things. Not even close.)
The only qualm about all this is that it almost certainly counts as "punting". The act of punting is defined as not tooling. "Tooling" is defined as working really hard on something you have to do, in other words, studying. The slang exists because a local shop was once known as "Cambridge Tool and Die", and a student once read it wrong and found it appropriate thought it was funny.
For reference, from the 2007-2008 version of How To Get Around MIT:
powertool - (1) n. An electrically operated tool. (2) v. What one has to do to catch up on the entire term in any given course the night before the final exam in that course.
punt - (1) v.t. To determine after analytical deliberation not to do something, said something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something.
Here are some choice quotes.
2 gigs is an understatement eight years after its publication.
Yes, this is an actual thing.
Brewpub/Bar, Irish. Stop laughing, it's pronounced "ash-guard." If you like your food pseudo-Irish in a setting reminiscent of Braveheart, then this is the place for you. Expect standard American bar fare with wacky Irish names - try to read 'Galway Buffalo Wings' or 'Celtic Quesadilla' with a straight face. Large oak chairs and tables bring you back to medieval times, but the good selection of beers will remind you of the present. Sometimes featuring live music, also from today's world. Avoid the Tuesday Trivia Night, you know, unless you're into that kinda thing. Accepts V, MC, AE, DC. (2006)
The Arboreutm
[sic] is a beautiful 265-acre park filled with over 6000 labeled
varieties of trees, vines, and flowers. "No bicycling or picnicking,
except on Lilac Sunday in May." On most days, simply walking through the
park and taking pictures can fill hours. Hours: Weekdays 9-4, Sat
10-4, Sun 12-4. Admission: free.
My Freedom Planet reference opportunity senses are tingling.
so apparently i had the above saved as a draft many moons ago
in any case, i wish i were still at the tute some days