It’s a well-known fact that Random Hall throws an insanely awesome CPW.  Just ask any of us.
What kinds of things do we have slated for you this year?  To start with, we’ve got more liquid nitrogen ice cream than your body has room for, plus truffles-making and BEEF.  We’ve got memes, juggling, and Saturday morning [...]

One of the services that Random Hall has always boasted is the laundry server. While other dorms may outsource their work laundryview.com to check the status of their laundry, the laundry server is entirely run by the laundry chairs and the computer chairs.
As with any software, laundry server has several areas of suckiness (fortunately, you [...]

Through the miracles of thermodynamics, or perhaps some incorrect arithmetic in his pset (but that doesn’t seem likely now, does it?) shawest just discovered that it takes 104 hours to cook a hamburger. Since he felt the need to share this with everyone around, I feel the need to share this with you.
“It’s not [...]

Random Hall has this wonderful thing called the Alice and Wonderland basement, lovingly referred to as AIW. It has a projector, a screen on the wall, couches, and various media equipment. Unfortunately, the receiver is out of service at the moment, which means that the nice Bose speakers are similarly incapacitated.
Zev, a Random Hall alumni, [...]

You are most cordially invited for tea
and sweets
on this, the 29th day of March
in celebration of Spring
to relax before classes,
at 242 Random Hall,
at a late and undetermined hour.
Appropriate attire is applauded but not required.
Utterly inappropriate attire is just fine.
Please do bring along your dolls in frilly dresses
and your stuffed animals.

So the other day I decided it would be a good idea to walk into a very crowded Black Hole kitchen carrying a plastic nerf gun. Well, see, this alone wouldn’t be terribly exciting except that almost everyone on Black Hole owns some sort of toy firearm. Some people even own entire armories. [...]

Greetings, freshman, and welcome to MIT. I see you’re looking at Random Hall as a possible place to live. While Random is not for everyone, it’s certainly a place that I enjoy very much. If you have the time, I’d like to take you on a visual tour of Random Hall during [...]

I somehow failed to think of a pun (which is something that is very rare for me…) for the title, so I had to settle with the above.
Anyway, the other day, somewhere between 600 and 700 Smart Start bowls mystically appeared on Pecker Floor. No one quite knows how they got there–quite likely the forces [...]

Warning: The Sh!t You Are About To See Is Awesome.

Pecker Floor, dear prefrosh, is the fourth floor on the 290 side of Random Hall, and we are all about mathematics, physics, mathematics, theoretical computer science, and mathematics. One of our lesser known interests, however, is prophesying the future by means of refrigerators.
BEHOLD!
More specifically, behold the ORACLE!
All Pecker residents find their destiny [...]

Let me tell you a story about something that happened in Random Hall a short while ago. I will title it Secret Service Kitten, though, of course, others may object.

Random Hall has a pretty nifty feature that I’d like to share. There’s this thing that tends to loom a few feet above your head (depending on hall tall you are) within the dormitory. It is composed of many rectangular tiles, stays at a constant height, exists on every floor, and keeps us from falling [...]

Yuran, Shawn, ekate, and I just finished a spontaneous survey of the dorm. We thought that we would share the results with you. As prefrosh, you must be interested in all possible statistics about Random Hall, right?
Our survey was to see whether Randomites respond ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the question ‘Are you busy [...]

The more it changes, the more it stays the same. Hello, prefrosh, my name’s Josh, known around here as Josh the frosh. The fact that I am now a sophomore seems not to matter. Last year, I was a rush chair, and so was partially responsible for our current ’11s here in Random Hall. Let [...]

Hello all you frosh out there!
I bet you are all brimming with excitement about coming to MIT for orientation and Rush!
Several friends of mine got together with me and created an alternate dorm video to tell you a little more about Random.
You can see it on youtube Here or download a high quality version Here.
I [...]

Preeya is right; don’t unpack your bags. In fact, bring a small handy travel bag with a towel, toothbrush and a change of clothes so you can refresh yourself without having to dig through luggage. This bag may come in handy if you find yourself staying the night in another dorm (which can [...]

I think you freshmen have now received your temporary room assignments, so hopefully those of you assigned to Random are reading this now. Hello! Welcome to the Random Hall blog.
You probably want to know what to expect when you get here in the fall. Here’s the major point: DO NOT UNPACK! I repeat, whatever [...]

Really punchy right now…
I’ve spent the past week and a half writing a LARP (http://www.mit.edu/~assassin/about.html) with a bunch of friends, so I’m more than a bit punchy right now. So…I guess I’ll tell you guys about the interesting things that have happened.
We spent the second night of Guild Camp up until 5AM ranting about characters…and [...]

No recent entries? Shame on y’all! I guess we haven’t had any schoolwork to procrastinate, so writing Random Hall blog entries is slightly less tempting…
Does Random have people around for the summer? Certainly! What, did you think that we all go *poof* over the summer? Of course not. In [...]

Welcome to Random Hall!

Click the link below for more pictures of the first day of CPW.

A little snapshot of how excited we are for CPW, courtesy of BMF’s mildly internet-famous Dinosaur Comics Whiteboard (for the original entry about the whiteboard, see Riv’s post)

(Click on “more” to see close-ups of the panels!)

Hi!
I’m ternus, one of the Random Rush Chairs, and I’ll be helping ensure that you all have a great time during CPW.
I live on Black Hole, the second floor on the 290-side, and one of two co-ed floors in Random. The residents of Black Hole are renowned for our consummate appreciation of [...]

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may be under the impression that everyone at Random has Internet memes jacked directly into their brains (omgwtfbbqkthxbyelolz!!!!!!!1!!11one). This is untrue.
Among the other things Random residents do is a fair bit of high-quality cooking; more than just ramen and frozen pizza. Random [...]

Well, as long as people are starting to plug for their events and activities, I suppose I should too. Random Hall is a diverse place, and one of the things that has been passed down for at least a decade (besides The Milk) is the tradition of boffing. A small number of you [...]

Hello prefrosh! I’m illix, and you’ll be seeing a lot of me over CPW. I’m ringmaster of the LN2 events as well as the person running the two media events, Bad Science and Cheesy Scifi. I am also a proud denizen of Bonfire Lounge; I’ve even got ops in our analog IRC [...]

Hey prefrosh, I decided to share my love of making costumes with you guys.
If you have any cool costumes you should bring them to MIT over CPW.
Many of my costumes are cool…
lol and some of them are also disturbing.
I decided to show some of them to you guys to see what you think :)
Some of [...]

What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than by sitting around with 10 friends loudly singing the engineer’s drinking song? “We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers…”
You can find more verses here, not all of which we got through, but we made our best effort.
We might have gotten [...]

Hey.
I’m Mats.
I’m a course 6-3′er (comp sci) in the class of 2008.
Nice to meet you.
About the blog:
I’m partly responsible for helping Josh realize his lifelong dream of setting up our dorm blog, so…, perhaps I should give a little account of the background behind all this.
Wordpress is the software (written in PHP — the hackish [...]

Sunday, 10pm. Bonfire Lounge is packed with as many people as it can hold - the couches are full, and even space on the floor has disappeared. Why?
Because, of course, Battlestar Galactica is on.
Galactica is only one of our many scifi conquests, however. Firefly, Stargate SG-1 (Yes, all 10 seasons.), Stargate Atlantis, Eureka, the [...]

Welcome to Bonfire, Home of the Internets. No, we are not a big truck, but you might be able to liken us to a series of tubes. ‘Tis a silly place, but what the hey. However, if you would happen to have 32 tons of naquedah, drop us a line; we’re building [...]

Quite a while ago, Yoz and I had this crazy idea to make a mural of Dinosaur Comics. But how could we pick just one to paint? With an eye on extensibility, we came up with a plan involving reuse@mit.edu, a whiteboard, and a shopping cart. This was before the 290-side stairwell [...]

May I be the first to welcome you young prefroshlings to the blog of Random Hall conveniently located here on the mighty tubes of the Internets.
Yes, I know…
You’re probably thinking to yourself “ZOMG! I mUsT b3 t3h r0×0rz f0r |-|1m t0 B t4Lk1ng t0 m3!!!1cos(0)”
Well, cool it buddy I’m talking to everyone! lol
There will [...]

This is only a test.
If this had been a real emergency, you would have grabbed the Milk, a disc gun, and a pack of sandwiches and vacated the premises immediately. Screaming would have been mandatory. Oh, it would have been wise to watch out for the boffer-wielding psycho on the way down, and remember to [...]