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Great College Pranks

popsci.com — A gallery of famous collegiate capers. You have to love college spirit, ambition, and creativity (all while, usually, not hurting anyone).

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  • guhpol, on 09/30/2008, -0/+77So this way University of Chicago' students were able to establish nuclear missile production from random junk they found in the physics department as long ago as 2001?..
    • boerema, on 10/01/2008, -1/+1Yeah, but can they run Crysis?
    • gkrat, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1UoC has WMD's, hope they vote for Obama.....
    • sweetestgirl1, on 10/01/2008, -0/+0a good resource.....................
      www.DitchingMrWrong.com
  • MacBookForMe, on 09/30/2008, -4/+14University of Wisconsin made is so cute....white/greenish:)
  • Raiper, on 09/30/2008, -2/+129dugg for smoking around DORM MADE PLUTONIUM!

    and I can't even fix my shelves...good grief...
    • SillyRabbits, on 09/30/2008, -0/+28I'm not sure you understand how plutonium works. Smoking around it doesn't matter.
      • otros, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2I don't think the emphasis was put on the smoking part.
    • cartisdm, on 09/30/2008, -1/+5you're doing it wrong
    • merreborn, on 09/30/2008, -1/+13Research the trigger mechanisms of nuclear weapons. They're not ignited by flame, they're ignited by slamming together enough fissile material to form a critical mass.

      A few grams of "dorm made plutonium" isn't enough to sustain a reaction, and a cigarette isn't going to trigger one.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design
      • eggsovereasy, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1supercritical mass... a critical mass would get you a nuclear reactor.
  • Tanasha, on 09/30/2008, -15/+1This is what students do when they have not enough homework!
    • SpankkBankk, on 09/30/2008, -1/+11They post lame comments on Digg?
  • skabyss, on 09/30/2008, -0/+26“Build a bong shaped like Emile Durkheim”
    lol
  • Destros, on 09/30/2008, -1/+17I like Georgia Tech’s Prank....and turtles
  • stateofmind, on 09/30/2008, -9/+163Our frat once took the other frats go-kart, and removed it's flames. It was legendary.
    • BoneStamp, on 09/30/2008, -1/+55Did you arrive via go-cart?
    • Neoanarchist, on 09/30/2008, -3/+80This new meme is awesome.
      • cmscott, on 10/01/2008, -1/+11You say that now, just wait a few days.
      • leif77, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2didnt know it was a meme... anyone care to provide the origin?
    • Cheesasaurus, on 09/30/2008, -1/+21I was going to think of a great prank, but instead I went out and bought a go-kart.
    • steger, on 09/30/2008, -1/+12w/e
    • ricerfuel, on 09/30/2008, -6/+3us english like go-karts, maybe columbus arrived by go-kart
    • anizzle, on 10/01/2008, -0/+5Was that before or after you created a horse porn website.
    • paperclips4u, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1That's kind of like making plutonium... kind of. Reverse I guess. It's like making plutonium NONEXISTENT! AWESOME!
  • BXRWXR, on 09/30/2008, -0/+8Weird, all I see is a comments section, no pics at all.
    • BoneStamp, on 09/30/2008, -0/+14wait for it... wait for it...
    • wooben, on 10/01/2008, -1/+3Stop using Chrome.
      Try it in Firefox... worked for me.
  • trogdorBURN, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3mirror anyone?

    • sweetestgirl1, on 10/01/2008, -2/+0a good resource.....................
      www.DitchingMrWrong.com
  • mtcobb2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+107Hmmm... Somehow i don't see making Plutonium as a prank. Mainly just awesome.
  • Abomonog, on 09/30/2008, -2/+17Dugg for Chicago Tech's nuclear reactor and Georgia Tech's George Burdell. I wonder if someone's got him collecting Social Security. :)
    • Signa91, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2its like friggen Shawshank.
    • Commodore84, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Chicago Tech??? Fail. (University of Chicago--home to more Nobel Laureates than any other university in the world)
      • Abomonog, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1University of Chicago only in name. Chicago Tech is a nickname. Brought on because it is the place where the method of stripping a car down to its frame in less than 5 minutes was perfected.

        I even got the nickname wrong, though. It's really Chicago Street Tech.

        How about getting out of your cushy couch and learning something about the street for once?
  • Abomonog, on 09/30/2008, -17/+2Dugg for Chicago Tech's nuclear reactor and Georgia Tech's George Burdell. I wonder if someone's got him collecting Social Security. :)
    • Abomonog, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Woah, Sorry about the double post. It didn't show yesterday. Please bury it.
  • IphtashuFitz, on 09/30/2008, -0/+84Most of MIT's hacks can be found here: http://hacks.mit.edu
    Having been born in Boston, my dad being an MIT alum, and having lived in the area most of my adult life, I always get a kick out of the hacks MIT manages to pull off. This article doesn't do them justice. That photo of the campus police car on top of the dome is only part of the story. When it was spotted up there the lights were flashing. The license plate of the car was pi, and when facilities got up there they found a dummy cop with coffee and donuts inside the car. The dome is just off one of the main commuter roads in Cambridge (Memorial Drive) so it was seen by lots of commuters that morning and caused a lot of rubbernecking.

    Another great hack from years ago was a phone booth that showed up on top of the dome. When facilities got up there to remove it the phone in the booth rang and actually worked.

    The theft of Caltech's cannon was priceless, and there are many other really well known hacks. Check out their "best of" link for other great ones.
    • IphtashuFitz, on 09/30/2008, -0/+9My bad. The police car was numbered pi and it's license plate was IHTFP, which is a pretty well known acronym at MIT. "I Hate This F*cking Place" is almost universally known. A few others used at MIT:

      "I Help Tutor Freshman Physics"
      "It's Hard to Fondle Penguins"
      "Interesting Hacks to Fascinate People"
      "I Have Truly Found Paradise"
      "Institute Has The Finest Professors"

      The IHTFP acronym is commonly included somewhere on MIT class rings.
    • aflaks, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1676395/technology_s ... Not sure if this is MIT but it certainly reminds me of their 1993 prank
    • hannahruth0, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1I'm surprised that such a geeky place doesn't have a more modern website. It looks like it came straight out of 1995. Props for the inventive hacks though.
  • uneasyryder, on 09/30/2008, -1/+62My college pranks usually involved copius amounts of alcohol and balls on someones forehead.
    • SillyRabbits, on 09/30/2008, -0/+26You must have gone to a liberal arts school. :)
    • RadiatedAnt, on 10/01/2008, -12/+2you do know that just made you a homosexual, not that theirs anything wrong with that...
    • sutherbj, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2We still do that at Wisconsin. Consistently rank as top party school/top drinking school and now one of top nerd prank schools? We'll try to find room on our mantle...
  • krakkinem, on 09/30/2008, -0/+14special geek note: that Statue of Liberty prank was overseen by Jim Mallon, producer of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and also the puppeteer and voice of the character Gypsy.
  • elnerdo, on 09/30/2008, -16/+3Slideshow. Buried.
    • digglet08, on 09/30/2008, -2/+3Oh come on. The page doesn't load for each slide. You have to click, but it changes instantly.



      *****
      • elnerdo, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Yeah, but why is it necessary to have that? Why couldn't they just put all 5 images and all 5 paragraphs on one page? It would be easier for everyone.
    • NCSD, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Look at me, I'm too lazy to press the forward button.
  • ncc74656m, on 09/30/2008, -0/+7I enjoy the nuclear weapons program in a dorm. That ***** is impressive.
  • stillasleep00, on 09/30/2008, -1/+14/5 from geeky schools...
  • omgwtflawl, on 09/30/2008, -1/+49Uh, I think they missed one........

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale%27s_%22We_Suck%2 ...
  • GB570, on 09/30/2008, -1/+19One of my favorites:

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/786194/crosswalk_mad ...
  • t3rmv3locity, on 09/30/2008, -1/+12Should have submitted this:
    Top 10 College Pranks of All Time: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/newsletter/nov2002.h ...
  • batkins, on 09/30/2008, -2/+12Lmao, the University of Chicago had a better nuclear program than Iraq. That's actually really funny-WAIT THEN WHAT THE ***** ARE WE DOING THERE STILL?!
    • NCSD, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2really?
    • Yookji, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Not that surprising considering the UoC created the world's first sustained nuclear reaction back in the 1930s.
      • otros, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1With junk? If not, I think it's pretty surprising.
  • Bologner, on 09/30/2008, -2/+6God I love Wisconsin.
  • Beowulf2112, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5Dugg for the homemade plutonium
  • AdeleMor, on 09/30/2008, -5/+1DOWN WITH SLIDE SHOWS.

    oh you goofy MIT kids. what will you think of next?
  • GeorgeBurdell, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1I like the Georgia Tech one. And it's George P Burdell, BTW.
  • beloitpiper, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Pail and Shovel. Legendary.
  • cageme, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Biggest prank of all, getting a bunch of us to try reloading the page eleven times in order to see nothing but comments and no content. Well done.
  • JonProphet, on 09/30/2008, -3/+2Yea I clicked on that link for 5 measly pranks? Five. Really?
  • Czechxican, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3Dude. A kid did all his work twice!!!!!!!!!!! I have enough trouble doing it once. But I guess it would be easier to pull that off at an engineering school compared to a poly sci geek.
    • mizzaxx, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1I think he probably submitted the same work with 2 different names...
      • Czechxican, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Exactly. You couldn't submit the same paper twice because you'd get caught, compared to just solving a math problem or analysing a schematic.
  • Valisk61, on 09/30/2008, -2/+15Wait until you see the list from Great Britain...

    Leeds/Bradford 'University': Someone shat in a bottle and sent it to Tony Blair.
    Liverpool John Moores University: Everybody got leathered and didn't show up for class on Monday morning.
    Cardiff University: Somebody left a pint of milk in a cupboard for a week.

    Honestly. The students over here are a bunch of ***** MORONS!
  • myhandleondigg, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Do any of the images have anything to do with the short little stories?
  • Markab3, on 09/30/2008, -0/+5They failed to mention that George P. Burdell was also in the running for TIME's person of the year in 2001 for a short period of time. If I remember correctly he was at one point in both 1st and 3rd place as George P Burdell and George P. Burdell.

    Horray for internet polls!
  • Rkstar, on 09/30/2008, -0/+7I remember at RPI a friend of mine took an inflatable whale and ran him for student senate, starting the "Inanimate Objects Party". Now, over 10 years later, the party has continued to grow, with silverware, textbooks, and one year... a real human, running under the party's ticket. http://www.inflatablewhale.org/
    • Samadhi007, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Remind me of the McGillicuddy Serious Party in New Zealand

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_ ...

      "At one point the Party selected its electoral candidates through trial by combat, with newspaper swords and water-balloons, the loser of the combat becoming the candidate. In 1990 this policy gave way to one of standing several candidates for the same seat (electoral law forbade one candidate to contest two seats, doubling the chances of election; but permitted a party to have two candidates standing in the same electorate, thus halving their chances). In 1996 a giant game of musical chairs took place in Cathedral Square, Christchurch to select the Canterbury regional electorate candidates. Whoever remained sitting on one of the labelled chairs when the music stopped became the candidate for that seat. Potential candidates for proportional representation ( list) seats vied Cinderella-style by trying to fit into labelled shoes."
  • sprooj, on 09/30/2008, -0/+8Uh... UBC students hung a car from the Golden Gate bridge in 2001 without getting caught and again in 2006 in Vancouver when they hung one under a bridge in less than 4 minutes without using any lifts or cranes. Apparently there is also a law that prohibited the authorities from cutting the car down so they had to pull it back up again with a crane.
    • kurejibitch, on 10/01/2008, -0/+3Posting from UBC as we speak. (:
  • DrunkenDigger, on 09/30/2008, -1/+3What is really unfortunate is that if anyone tried to do almost any of these things today they'd very likely end up in jail or at least expelled from the school...
  • Koushiro, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Wow, it's nice to remember what a real prank is, something that's funny but not malicious. :P
  • nydwarf, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I wonder if Homer would think any of these were funny?
  • yingjai, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2#4 takes the cake
  • Vaughanabe13, on 10/01/2008, -1/+2Wisconsin is overrated
    • sutherbj, on 10/01/2008, -1/+1lol hawkeyes. hows your subpar everything?
  • encrypteduser, on 10/01/2008, -1/+2Was [next] that [next] really [next] ***** [next] necessary?
  • TheDarkTemplar, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2What about the Harvey Mudd prank? Caltech (Pasadena City College) sucks!

    http://people.bu.edu/fmri/somers/cannon.html
  • sillykalcifer, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1harvard and yale have football teams?!?
  • doublefelix, on 10/01/2008, -0/+3Unfortunately, 4 out of 5 of these pranks now constitutes terrorism under the Patriot Act.
  • girlbt, on 10/01/2008, -2/+04/5 from geeky schools...

    http://www.jiamengdianw.cn
  • barkingfrog, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1I absolutely love the university of Wisconsin prank, my dad is best friends with the guy who cuts out the statue every year. I remember like 10 years ago when he did a similar thing with a miniature Capitol and we walked out on lake monona and set up the mini capitol only about 100 yards from the real deal. Wow, this just brought back great memories. Thank you digg. Will you marry me?
  • waywardsoulnf, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1Dugg because off all of the crap we get up to at school! Our best prank is when we hired a crane truck and put all of the teachers cars on top of the parking garage...
  • TriplePlay2425, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Georgia Tech.

    (I'm there now)
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