We all owe those brave students at Merton College, Oxford, our deepest gratitude: if it weren?t for them the universe would be in serious trouble. That?s because in the early hours of the last Sunday every October, those heroes maintain the space-time continuum during the change from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. They do this by heroically walking backwards around the college?s Fellows? Quad, drinking just the right amount of Port to keep the continuum? continuous.
A fortnight afterwards, at St Andrews University, we have Raisin Weekend. Traditionally, first-year students there are adopted at the beginning of each academic year? by third-year students who, during Raisin Weekend, ply them with as much alcohol as humanly possible while dressing them up in bizarre outfits. Net result: many small house parties making up one huge house party throughout the weekend, and brought to a conclusion by a foam fight on the Monday.
And on the other side of the Atlantic:
At the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT, to the rest of us) students? pranks, AKA ?hacks? tend to happen under cover of darkness, leaving everyone there wondering how the hack was accomplished. One classic hack was to place a car painted to resemble a campus police patrol car on top of MIT?s Great Dome Building.
Primal Scream can mean many things to many people: at Harvard University, back in the 1960s, it was a ten-minute screaming session the night before the beginning of exams. These days, it?s not so much screaming as streaking, to the accompaniment of the Harvard University Band and the applause and cheers of onlookers, as students drop their drawers and run naked through the University.
Students at the University of Chicago organise the largest scavenger hunt in the world. Teams have four days to track down random ? and bizarre ? items, and complete tasks which, to date, have included ?get circumcised? and ?build a working nuclear breeder reactor?. We don?t know about the circumcision, but we do know that two physics students actually did build a plutonium-producing reactor ? in a shed on the university?s Quad.
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Source: http://boyajianmarc.com/education/2012/08/20/theres-more-to-university-life-than-just-studies/
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