<p>Atop Millikan library (a 9-10 story building visible from essentially all of campus) bright Christmas lights spell "MIT".</p>
<p>Well done : )</p>
<p>P.S. Some Calltech students have projected the mirror image of "Chang" below "MIT". The joke is that Tim Chang is the director of institute housing. Tim's picture appears below the sign.</p>
<p>pixplzthx?</p>
<p>Really? LOL</p>
<p>Please post pics!</p>
<p>I will as soon as I get some : )</p>
<p>haha, they snuck in</p>
<p>Why do I have the feeling I will hear and see more about this on one of the blogs?</p>
<p>More story: apparently Blacker frosh had put up C I T (in preparation for an annual Lloyd prank) and someone covered up the bottom of the block C and added the rest of a block M; who exactly did this is not clear. My current best guess is MIT grad students who are now at Caltech, or something of that nature (or traitorious Techers)... if people had traveled all the way here, I would expect something more.</p>
<p>I was just told that apparently the culprits were traitorous Lloydies. : ) But I agree with tokenadult's remark on the Caltech forum that if MIT students are planning to get us back for last year, it's hard to imagine a better season. (Though the last few days have been remarkably cold.)</p>
<p>Haha, and the last few days here have been remarkably warm -- it was 60 degrees here yesterday, and it's already 56 this morning. Global warming is weird.</p>
<p>Are you guys in session during our IAP? That's when I would do it, were I the hacking sort.</p>
<p>Yes. We start January 4th. I like your IAP.</p>
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<p>sounds fishy <em>wink</em></p>
<p>Haha, I thought it would sound disingenuous to add "...which I most certainly am not", but it's the truth. I'm scared of the dark. :)</p>
<p>I will be at Caltech a little earlier than that, though -- my high school band (in which my younger brother is a trombone) is marching in the Rose Parade this year, and there's a free day for the band booster group, and my mom is all excited about visiting Caltech and UCLA, since I applied to PhD programs at both places. Moms. <em>eye roll</em></p>
<p>...so if something crazy happens around December 28, you are free to blame me.</p>
<p>wow! your brother is playing a trombone at the rose parade?</p>
<p>thats so cool!</p>
<p>Ooh! Go Band! Marching in the Rose Parade? Wow!
At least it won't be cold...</p>
<p>Oh, you never know. When I was a junior in band, we marched in the Orange Bowl parade, and we had the great fortune to get to Miami just as the city was experiencing its worst cold snap in forty years.</p>
<p>But when we marched in the Macy's Parade my senior year... now that was cold.</p>
<p>This reminds me of Harvey Mudd's prank: </p>
<p>Mudders made a slight modification to a freeway sign that read as follows:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology
Pasadena City College
Next Exit</p>
<p>Their prank was quite subtle; they put parentheses around "Pasadena City College," so it read:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology
(Pasadena City College)
Next Exit</p>
<p>our band marched in the columbus day parade, it was not good when a good friend of mine (catholic) got into a theological debate with a jewish spectator</p>
<p>Haha, Xiggi, that's great.</p>
<p>I have to admit that some of my favorite hacks are sign hacks. I suppose they're not necessarily that technically difficult, but I love that they just look absurd.</p>
<p>my traitorous friend who ended up at Harvard still wears his CalTech: Because not everyone can go to MIT shirt. Traitor.</p>