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The firetruck seems difficult to pull off, even with a helicopter. Perhaps its a 3D cardboard model? Anyone know?

It was a replica; see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/PDF/N37.pdf for a better photo.

From the newspaper: Lehman Brothers 2006 ad. Golden: http://screencast.com/t/K7LKB5ncGqj

If you're into these sort of pranks look at these books:

http://www.amazon.com/Nightwork-History-Hacks-Pranks-MIT/dp/...

http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/shop_product_detail...

Something I remember from when I was touring colleges, the hiking club at Harvey Mudd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College) was called "Delta H".

respect to the l33tness of MIT students

I've never found the Ivy League that interesting - I'm sure they're all good schools, but beyond that they've never seemed particularly unique compared to similar top-notch liberal arts schools - but MIT and CalTech have always fascinated me.

In particular, the Rose Bowl incident from CalTech. I've always wanted to meet the instigators of that particular incident.

Glad to see MIT kids have such a spunky culture.

seems like they are fans of putting things on top of that dome.

A visual history of MIT pranks