Prank a Frosh Day

Today was a very special day for us Frosh, the prank.  Because most of the upperclassmen do not have class on Friday, while all of the Freshman (Frosh) have an early chemistry class, today was the perfect opportunity for the upperclassmen to orchestrate their prank.  So, when we all got out of class, we returned to our dorms to find them all done up in a number of different ways.

The first that something was going on was the site upon walking up to my dorm.

The entrance of Atwood blocked off with steamers.

First, here is what happened in the various suites of Atwood.  My suite first:

This is my suite.  Notice the mattress blocking the hallway.

The first obstacle was to navigate the pool.

Because of the mattress, the only way to my dorm was this tunnel.

Now, this was not actually too bad for our suite.  The worst was probably what happened to the 1st floor proctor suite:

All of their clothes strung up in the courtyard.

And you can see the Halloween pumpkins, unrelated to the prank.

Besides the rope, a net held a bunch of other clothes.

And the people from this suite were also lucky enough to have their room toilet-papered as well.

Clothes missing, room destroyed, and mattresses switched with another suite.

Another suite on the third floor had all of their stuff moved out of their room, and placed in the suite.  While I did not go into this room, I also heard that their room itself was covered with porn.

All of their stuff moved into the suite area and piled all over the place.

On the first floor - in what is considered the party suite - they decorated the girls' room with all of their alcoholic stuff, including a full beer-pong table in their dorm room.

The entrance to their room was set up like the bar.

One of my favorite things from Atwood, was the complete removal of someones room onto the lawn.  They also left a picture of the stuff photo-shopped onto Scripps in the room, so he would think his stuff was completely gone.

It is so funny having it set up like the room, with clothes hanging in the tree.

Next, the dorm Case - which is known for having only one entrance - blocked this area off with an obstacle course and a group of upperclassmen above with water balloons, a hose, and full buckets of water.  I am so glad that I did not have to deal with that:

It was easy to see what was going on, but some people had to go in.

I am sure they must have been freezing.

North dorm was not particularly exciting as far as I could tell.  We did not actually go in to look around the dorm rooms, but they had blocked off the entire courtyard with a wall of furniture.

Pretty boring, since it was still easy to get inside.

South removed the mattresses from everyone's rooms - and of course left the placed trashed.  But what they did with the mattresses was interesting.  They created a very large mattress pile, and had people jump onto it from the second floor.  The distance is not very high, so it was not a problem.

It did not look particularly safe, but not too dangerous either.

In East, for one of the Frosh rooms, they moved everything from their dorm room to the lounge and vice versa.

All of the furniture was replaced with couches and tables, with all their stuff removed.

When it came to West, Linde, and Sontag, we did not really see any pranks worth noting, which is too bad.

Overall, it was very entertaining and definitely a surprise since I had completely forgotten that they were planning on pranking us, and I had no idea it would be happening today.  Of course, it seemed like everyone took it in good humor, and it was just another normal occurrence at Mudd.  One we will be sure to replicate in the years to come.