Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
An MIT "hack" is an ingenious, benign, andanonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientificexpertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness —instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withApril Fool's Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not beconfused with the sometimes nonbenign phenomenon of computer hacking.)Noteworthy MIT hacks over the years include the legendary Harvard—YaleFootball Game Hack (when a weather balloon emblazoned "MIT"...
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A compendium of materials on MIT hacks, reflecting the special quality of MIT humor and hacking culture.
ForewordIntroductionWhere No Cow Has Gone Before: Accessing the Inaccessible1Hack, Hacker, Hacking4Auto Industry: The Great Vehicle Hacks5Hacking Ethics10Domework: Hacking the Domes11Dome as Dais12Greener Pastures: The Green Building Hacks27Greenspeak Spoken Here31Intriguing Hacks to Fascinate People35Making an Entrance: The Lobby 7 Hacks37Father Tool's Grand Tour47Under the Dome54"All Mondays Should Be So Beautiful": The Art of Hacking Art57U.S.S. Tetazoo62No Knife63Why Ruin the Atrium?64Green Eggs and Hair65Form + Function = Hack: The Architecture Hacks67A Guide for New Employees: Building History and Numbering System73Hacking as Campus Commentary: The Editorial Hacks75A Sign of the Times: Hacking with Signs and Banners85The Numbers Game: Hackers Reinvent Measurement97Recalculating the Infinite Corridor101Beyond Recognition: Commemoration Hacks103Object Lessons: Hacks in the Classroom113Why Sleep through a Class When You Can Hack It?115Worth a Thousand Words: Hacks Fit to Print119That VooDoo That You Do121Teaching a Nation to Make Snow: Hoax Hacks123"Please Wait to Be Served": The Performance Hacks125When MIT Won the Harvard-Yale Game: Hacking Harvard129Student Leaders at MIT Claim Harvard as Colony140The John Harvard Hacks141Because It's There: The Best of the Rest143Hacking by Mail150Zen and the Art of Hacking: The Essays151The Case of the Disappearing President's Office152Door Man153It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure155The Great Breast of Knowledge159Mastery over the Physical World: Demonstrative and Pedagogical Value of the MIT Hack160Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They162Engineering in Action165Why We Hack169Glossary of MIT Vernacular171Sources175Photo Credits177
