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spotlight: Happy Halloween from beyond the en-grave | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Boo! MIT students celebrate Halloween by carving their own Great Pumpkins |
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This past Sunday at Sidney-Pacific, MIT graduate students gathered to take part in the great Halloween tradition of pumpkin carving. Over 50 pumpkins were provided by Sidney-Pacific so grad students from across campus could try their hands at crafting the perfect Jack-O-Lantern. This was the first experience with the American tradition for some participants, and all involved had a blast getting to take a break from spooky mid-terms to create "boo"-tiful Halloween masterpieces.
Halloween candy was served and the extracted pumpkin seeds were gathered to be roasted for the S-P Coffee Hour event on Halloween night. The carvers turned the S-P multipurpose room into a whirlwind of orange with some artists paying painstaking attention to detail, and others just enjoying playing with pumpkin mush. Pumpkin designs ranged from the classic scary faces and spooktacular spiders to more "MIT-flavored" creations such as the pi symbol (pumpkin "pi") and Pac-Man eating ghosts and cherries. To the delight of residents, forty-one of the completed pumpkins went on display in the S-P courtyard and have been lit each night leading up to Halloween. The organizers hope this will become an annual event to bring fellow MIT graduate students together in the fun spirit of the holiday. by Ben Renkoski 'G |
 Boo-tiful creations: MIT pumpkin carvers have their work cut out for them |
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