To pay homage to the season finale of Breaking Bad, hackers transformed the Alchemist into Breaking Bad's Walter White.
Additionally, banners were hung outside and inside lobby 7.
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To celebrate the confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, which occurs only once roughly every 70,000 years, hackers decorated Building 10 with a banner "Happy Thanksgivukkah!" and a decorated dreidel.
Rather than the typical American lettering -- ? (Nun) (Gimel) ? (Hei) ? (Shin), an abbreviation of "A great miracle happened there" -- the dreidel was lettered in the Israeli fashion -- ? (Nun) ? (Gimel) ? (Hei) ? (Pei), an abbreviation of "A great miracle happened here," perhaps also a nod to the MIT Architecht I.M. Pei.
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During CPW, a five-piece Newton's Cradle appeared underneath the skybridge connecting buildings 18 and 56. The heads of the cradle resembled the personality spheres from the Valve game, Portal 2 , and glowed at night. The installation included a button to play sounds and actuate the cradle by pulling back a ball and setting it into motion.
Watch the cradle swing on Youtube.
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Hackers placed a medical mask on the Alchemist statue outside the Student Center (W20) to help keep him healthy during a bad flu outbreak.
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Pacman and one of his arch nemeses, Blinky the ghost, appeared on the construction scaffolding on the Great Dome on January 10. At night, the lights from the scaffolding illuminated a trail of "power pellets," the white dots Pacman eats to earn points.
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