Bonfire:

Random Hall's Rush Chairs are bred only from the strongest stock, so it's no surprise that Bonfire is the only floor to have supplied one of the two Rush Chairs every year for the last ten years. As the six-time winner of the "Sexiest Living Group at MIT" award and the winner for 17 straight years of the "Most Rock and Roll Living Group at MIT" award, Bonfire knows what it means to be awesome.

The residents of Bonfire have been forged in the fires of living in the least convenient place possible in the dorm. The three flights of stairs it takes to get to Bonfire have given us all iron quads and steely wills. We climb Mount Everest as a floor twice a year, and have more Nobel Prizes than the entire faculty of MIT's School of Science. Socially, we're noted for monthly floor dinners and parties, extensive playing of board games, and solving Millenium Problems for fun.

If you want to visit us, feel welcome to. Just remember three ground rules:

1. No sparkling.
2. Do your dishes and don't leave knives in the sink.
3. There is no method. Only madness.

Pecker:

Pecker is a cabal of nerdy, ham-fisted theorists. Pecker residents obsess over contract bridge conventions, host weekly mathematical problem-solving soirees and monthly puzzle hunts, and code games at 5 in the morning (with cake), thus celebrating their nerdiness in myriad ways.

Pecker is also known for operating a candy fridge, which is not in any way involved with money laundering (anymore), as well as housing The Milk, best consumed by October 20, 1994. We have a lounge displaying posters of cows and chalkboards with amazing anti-dust chalk from Japan. Pecker refrigerators are named after the fates of their users, though they are still investing the nature of Death by Metastable Vacuum.

Clam:

Due to 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 video games to sports to group cooking. Clam is also home to the central development center of n-games, the Institute of Troll Studies, and one of the world's largest board game stockpiles.

BMF:

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BMF is a group of bad-ass females who all have being awesome in common. Our floor is situated next to the crossover point between the south half of the dorm and the north half, so we get a lot of people passing through and hanging out in our lounge, which is a great study spot as well as a nice place to watch a movie or play a game. We're also home to the cleanest kitchen in Random Hall.

BMF holds monthly tea parties because we're classy ladies. We also frequently make yummy baked goods. We love cookies. <3

Residents of BMF are a varied bunch. We have about the same proportion of 6, 8, and 18 majors as the rest of the dorm; additionally, we have at least two people in course 3(MATERIAL GIRLS?) and 9(BRAINS!). Many residents enjoy singing, interneting(totally a legit hobby), drawing/painting, reading manga/comic books/novels, watching anime/Sci-fi/disney movies, and roleplaying with the MIT Assassin's Guild. Basically, all things nerdy and awesome.

Loop:

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Loop is an all-female floor whose residents comprise an eclectic mix of majors and minors. We are singers, pianists, harpists, guitarists, violinists, artists, chefs, excellent haikuists, and more! We enjoy watching shows together, especially cartoons, anime, and sci fi. You can often find us hanging out in our kitchen doing problem sets and cooking tasty meals, or watching TV and chilling with laptops in our lounge. In our main stairwell is a depiction of Loop Fortress, a well-fortified pink castle that protects us against unwanted intruders.* We also have a kitty to defend our honor (or chase laser pointers, which is less useful but significantly more cute). We like to hold regular floor dinners, bake delicious goods, and inflict chick flicks upon our freshmen. In summary, we are awesome. jsyk.

*Unlike the cardboard box version, this version is entirely comprised of paint.

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 current feline in residence, DOS, on whom we all dote terribly. 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 reside Asians, Mexicans, Canadians, Nigerians, Texans, and despite being an all-male floor, a healthy amount of ladies. We love making off-, and on-, color jokes, video games, and just hanging out. A warning to the sensitive, our humor tends toward the caustic. You're not welcome here until we welcome you.

On the up side, we have two 52" HDTVs, thousands of watts of audio power , two media servers, and the highest refrigerator to resident ratio. We have plenty of involvement in dorm politics and proudly host our semi-annual movie night amongst a myriad of other events.

tl;dr - Awwwwww yyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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.