<p>are there a lot of pranks in college? Like on break.com, there are a lot of videos showing people dumping cold water into showers when a roomate is showering, waking someone up rudely, you get the point</p>
<p>During orientation, I was really afraid someone would take my clothes and towel while I was showering. I hung them over the top of the shower door since there really wasn't any other place to hang them.</p>
<p>Man, I hope not. That's so juvenile.</p>
<p>one can only hope...</p>
<p>there are a lot pranks by frats during rush and pledge week. like they'll run around a class of 200 naked and yelling stuff or make a skit mocking the professor. a lot of non-frat people do that to toward the end of finals. </p>
<p>between roomates and residents on the same floor or dorm, of course there will be pranks and stuff. it doensn't happen 24/7, but it happens occasionally, along with other stupid stuff. all in good fun and procrastination.</p>
<p>i think pranks between two schools are the best and the best rivalry for that has to go to MIT and CalTech</p>
<p>^never heard of any of their pranks. i've heard of harvard and yale, and stanfor d and cal pranks, but no MIT and caltech. what'd they do?</p>
<p>A dozen midshipmen earned the grudging respect of the Air Force Academy by repainting a jet fighter on the Colorado academy's grounds blue and gold, and labeling it with "Navy" and "Blue Angels."</p>
<p>The mids, who are studying there this semester as part of an exchange program, pulled off the prank sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, in advance of Saturday's Navy-Air Force football game in Annapolis.</p>
<p>"This jet is in the center of cadet life," Air Force Academy spokesman John Van Winkle said yesterday. "You cannot be a cadet at the academy and not notice that plane."</p>
<p>The F-4D Phantom fighter, which downed six enemy MiGs in the Vietnam War, is in the middle of the Air Force Academy's assembly area, surrounded by dormitories, a classroom building and the campus chapel. Mr. Van Winkle said. It is normally painted tan and green.</p>
<p>"They have created a little bit of a legacy," Mr. Van Winkle said of the visiting midshipmen.</p>
<p>A Naval Academy spokesman was laughing when he discussed the incident.</p>
<p>"Good on 'em," Cmdr. Rod Gibbons said yesterday of the pranksters.</p>
<p>Mr. Van Winkle offered the Naval Academy some friendly advice:</p>
<p>"Be sure to ask the Navy people about the brass goat statute - just to see if anything happened there," he said of the statute that stands inside Gate 1.</p>
<p>Naval Academy spokesman Judy Campbell said this morning that 20 Air Force cadets are studying in Annapolis this semester, but they have not retaliated. Yet.</p>
<p>"Not at this point, we haven't had any pranks played," Ms. Campbell said. "But it's still not Saturday."</p>
<p>The hoaxes, sometimes called "spirit missions," are all in good fun. The only rules are that the pranks do no permanent damage, and must be cleaned up the following day. In this case, the mids wisely used coloring that washed off the Air Force plane.</p>
<p>Mids in past years have painted things such as "Go Navy!" on a wall at the Air Force Academy, and West Point cadets painted a Ranger insignia on a roof another year but nobody has ever performed a stunt of this magnitude, Mr. Van Winkle said.</p>
<p>The whole rivalry is about the Commander-in-Chief Trophy, awarded each year to the academy that wins the most inter-service football games.</p>
<p>Navy has won it the past two seasons, but Air Force has won it 22 times to Navy's 11 since the trophy was created in 1972. Navy goes into Saturday's game with a season record of 1-2, and Air Force with a 2-3 record, but Navy is a 1 point favorite because of home-field advantage.</p>
<p>Navy may have lost its edge over Air Force in May, when its star fullback graduated.</p>
<p>"We will see about the Commander-in-Chief Trophy," Mr. Van Winkle said. "That thing was here for seven years in a row. Then, Kyle Eckel came along. He just tore us up. Now, we're glad he's gone."</p>
<p>^oh yeah i heard of that. i forgot about it. but yeah navy and air force are pretty crazy too.</p>
<p>The MIT/Caltech ones are the best. They call the pranks something special.. phreaking or something? I know that means phone-hacking, but that's what it is.. I think.</p>
<p>There is a website dedicated to MIT hacks here:</p>
<p><a href="http://hacks.mit.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://hacks.mit.edu/</a></p>
<p>This is my favorite, although it doesn't involve CalTech:</p>
<p>Oh. Hacks. Right. Not phreaking. =p</p>
<p>current_student: Here's a couple of links on the MIT/Caltech "hacking war".</p>
<p><a href="http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2006/mitcannon/%5B/url%5D">http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2006/mitcannon/</a>
<a href="http://www.howeandser.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.howeandser.com/</a>
<a href="http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/PDF/N19.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/PDF/N19.pdf</a>
<a href="http://www.caltechvsmit.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.caltechvsmit.com</a> (gotta be fair and give a Caltech link too :))</p>
<p>put your school on for sale in the paper</p>
<p>say like 25 bathrooms, 234 rooms, 5 guest houses, a pool, world-class gym, parks, trees, 3 cafetarias, full-time janitorial service and only for $10!</p>
<p>oh my god, that picture with mit girls made me shudder.</p>
<p>Ya, Im glad Im not super smart so I dont have to go there.</p>
<p>I really didn't even know that so many girls even go to MIT. </p>
<p>The more you know.</p>
<p>The more you avoid.</p>
<p>We once snuck in another student's dorm room and hid moth balls everywhere. And when I say "hid," I mean they were in stealth mode. You could smell them down the entire hall, but I'm sure it took her forever to find them all. I think she reached into one of her purses weeks later, and found some hidden in the small compartments.</p>
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<p>Welcome to the 21st century. About 45% of the undergrads are women.</p>
<p>I take it that hobo and tripperian are regular Adonises, given their exacting standards of female beauty. We're glad you're not going here too, tripperian. :D</p>
<p>Getting back to the thread topic - the middle third of our hall has black walls and red lights. Many years ago, when the hall was at the annual hall photo, the hall two floors below came up and painted pink bunnies on the walls.</p>