You know what’s delicious? Beef.
You know what else is delicious? Cookies.
Applying the linearity o the delicious operator, Beef cookies must also be delicious. Of course, being scientists, we had to empirically verify this conclusion. And so last week fischerl, pweaver, and I decided to make some delicious beef cookies

Crumbling cookies, baked with exquisite, hand-cooked teriyaki [...]

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 [...]

One of the activities many Random Hall residents enjoy is the construction of, and experimentation with, various kinds of electronics. I recently completed an electronics project which is posted on my door (Room 244), so come check it out during Rush.
I’ve posted some photos and a writeup at http://arc-reactor.net/projects/potterclock .

For some reason, every summer the Institvte thinks it should tear things down, build things, or otherwise hire a lot of construction workers. This summer at Random, it’s BMF’s turn.
Right now, you can track every person who walks through.

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

Greetings freshmen,
I am teh amazing rando and I will say a few words about bonfire floor (where I do not live, but am part of the active community). We are an eclectic group of geeks from all backgrounds with the common goal of waging war on the easily offended and having fun with irrational [...]

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.

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 [...]

Welcome to Random Hall!

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

It was the Saturday before spring break. Jeff Cohen and Dan Yuan and Kendra Beckler and I decided to do a little 2v2 Magic: the Gathering.
[ For those who haven't heard of the joy of MtG: Magic the Gathering is the first and the king of collectible card games. You may have seen people playing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Random Hall. Warning: contact with this dorm may cause you to contract a severe case of confusion. Beware this place. (The Ides of March have nothing on it.) Don’t worry; it doesn’t make any sense to us, either. Oh, and don’t forget: in case of emergency, don’t use [...]