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Bonfire:

Bonfire is the home of teh internets. Our media server contains untold quantities of sci-fi and more, and our lounge is watched over by none other than Gregory House. There's a stargate to Pecker, but good luck finding the DHD, let alone their gate address. We have a kitchen with lots of community cookware, dishes and pointy things that we will gladly skewer you with should you leave your crap in the sink (yes, our Adamater goes to 11). Madness, you say? THIS IS BONFIIIIIRE!!!!

Pecker:

Pecker is a cabal of nerdy, ham-fisted theorists, sometimes noted for having the property that every resident on the floor has a major that is divisible by 6 but not 4. From obsessing over contract bridge conventions, to hosting weekly mathematical problem-solving soirées, to arguing about different interpretations of quantum mechanics, to throwing epic LAN parties, Pecker's residents celebrate their nerdiness in myriad ways.

Pecker residents are often found in Pecker Basement, due to its key central location. Pecker is also known for operating a candy fridge, which is not in any way involved with money laundering (anymore). Pecker is also home to an awesome GRT, who (among other things) does battle with Death by Dying, a refrigerator so cold that it's warm. Pecker refrigerators each are named after the fate of their users, though they are still investigating the nature of Death by Renormalization.

Clam:

Between its strategic location at the only useful hole in Random's firewall and its population of technophiles, Clam acts as Random's social and entertainment nexus. Clam floor's residents are an eclectic mix of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists, with interests ranging from card games to adiabatic hydrogen liquifiers. Clam is also the global HQ of Kappa Phi, the international non-pledging powerhouse of pancakes, and the military command center for the Independent Nuclear Power of Random Hall.

BMF:

• * Tuesdays
• * Wall Scrabble
• * Dinosaur comics
• * Gluck, gluck, and more gluck. And sometimes geoduck (pronounced GUI-duck) too.

• * Hot cookies are hot, but hot glue is hotter. (So are hot coders...)
• * The ceiling tiles can hold much of what we learned freshman year.
• * Sugar really is needed in chocolate dishes...
• * Even the serious toolers and punters will drop whatever they're working on for cookies

• * Annex Clam Floor. (We've already got a hole in the firewall...)
• * Prove that sleep on couches is at least twice as efficient as sleep on regular old mattresses.
• * Finish all of the half-started blacklight murals in the lounge.
• * Find out just how little sugar is needed to make dark chocolate.
confections edible.
• * Get more bubble wrap

• * World Domination.
• * Eat lots of non-fatal dark chocolate.

Loop:

You could say that the only thing we have in common is gender, but that's not entirely true: we love a clean kitchen and lounge with tons of shared equipment, helping the environment with our new compost bin, and most of all, each other's company. All girls? Pshh. Although we enjoy the camaraderie that a single sex floor engenders, we have a basement of men and an attic of more men, and until recently, a man kitty (neutered, of course). There are majors and music of all sorts, and cooking skills and preferences ranging from Kraft mac and cheese to a variety of gourmet ethnic cuisines. Some of us are vegetarian, others vegan, and others really like meat. We are Loop.

Black Hole:

Black Hole is a group of guys and girls obsessed with all things nerdly: tabletop roleplaying, building electronics, building nifty things with wood and whatever materials we find at hand, beating video games utterly, cooking, coding, sewing (lots of medieval garb), writing new nerd jokes, painting, beating each other up with padded sticks, watching anime, and even tooling once in a while. The floor is ruled by our two cats on whom we dote terribly. They are Chani, and Angleton, Her Majesty's loyal agent 0017. While we all have very eclectic interests, the people of Black Hole share a very strong sense of community--which includes the official floor residents, friends who spend time on our floor, and significant others of residents. Most of us spend our time at home (that being, Black Hole), nerding, tooling, or procrastinating with the best into the wee hours of morning (or occasionally afternoon). If you enter Black Hole, prepare to be disturbed, perturbed, amused...and perhaps even stuck here forever with no escape.

Destiny:

Destiny. Here five Texans, two Asians, and three unsortable men reside. We love video games, Texas, and making off color jokes. Residents will be teased, picked on, and possibly woken in the middle of the night by the thunderous roar of the Strong Arm (our convenient door breaching tool). We live beneath our personal harem, Loop, so we always have a fresh supply of ladies. Like the Protheans, a bygone era of more tech savvy people have left us with the legacy of our music server, mp3q, and our video media server, MythTV.

Foo:

Unlike the typical 14-student floor, Foo is home to only three undergrads. Because of this, the culture of the floor is extremely volatile. Foo has recently gained independence from Destiny, and may now be considered an extension of our upstairs neighbors and good friends, Black Hole.

Catlike entities may be found on Foo floor, but to visit real cats, you'll have to walk up a flight of stairs. There is, however, a live mouse named Pikachu that visits the floor.

Prog rock can frequently be heard late at night on Foo as problem sets due the next morning are finally getting done. We also like competing at Starcraft, overdosing on caffeine, climbing things at unsafe heights, and, at the risk of over-generalization, executing bad plans because they are "hardcore".

The rest of the dorm likes to abuse our kitchen because many dorm-wide food events take place in the main lounge. But if you leave dirty dishes in the sink, we will find you and kill you. Or maybe just publicly ridicule you.