Some Things I Learned at MIT's Campus Preview Weekend

East Campus is full of pyros ("could you please put out the carpet?").
Microwaving motherboards is actually not a very smart thing to do.
Always bring multiple printouts of your GPG fingerprint to hacker parties (if you don't have business cards with it).
There are lots of fun toys in the Media Lab.
Train conductors don't actually read your tickets.
Trains are almost always late.
Falling down staircases in the dark at concerts hurts.
It's important to Love Your Beaver.
MIT will kick your ass, get used to it.
When you lose your phone card PIN, you have to go back to the same store you bought it at.
It would have been smart to leave extra space in the suitcase for all the extra stuff I brought home that I didn't bring there...
Fear the ever-expanding Wiki People in the seedy underbelly of boston-soc!
Acetarium parties don't have ending times.
The MIT Press loading dock sale is a veritable treasure trove.
Best. Hack. Ever.
Nothing ever works out quite as planned. Solution: plan less.