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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidCthulhu" data-source="post: 1322173" data-attributes="member: 26">MIT has a long standing tradition of Hacking, which in MIT-speak is not computer breaking and entering, but pranks and unauthorized campus exploration.  Steam tunnel ventures are hacking, as is the grand campus tradition of putting things on and around the rotunda building.  This building overlooks a main drive going by, and so pranks played here get good publicity.  Some good recent rotunda hacks include assembling a scale model of a campus police car, complete with dummy cop and bag of donuts, on top of the building, and wrapping a wide band of gold fabric, like a ring, around the edge of the rotunda.  This hack happened just before the opening of Fellowship, and written on the fabric (but not in letters of fire) was the black speech of Mordor, "Ash Naz" etc.  It was very cool.Go here <a href="http://hacks.mit.edu/" target="_blank">http://hacks.mit.edu/</a> for more information on the museum and its hours, but it's a very cool tradition and very cool that the school embraces it, rather than censuring it.  Generally, as long as the prank does no harm, and causes no property damage, there's no foul called.  I did some low level hacking when I was in college, with friends who went to MIT.  Nothing like breaking and entering to spice up an evening of studying.</blockquote>