Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

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Author: Institute Historian T. F. Peterson

ISBN-10: 0262661373

ISBN-13: 9780262661379

Category: Students & Student Life - College

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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