Reliving the good ol days

Reliving the good ol’ days Now everyone raise your hands if you used to watch Saturday morning cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friends birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5-WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and its basically an interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room solving puzzles to return the pharoah to his tomb. Not quite as challenging as MIT Mystery Hunt, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. Exhibit B: Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic Arts presents: Comic strips of Belgium or the big success of a small country Bet you didnt know that Hanna Barbera was not actually responsible for the first appearance of Smurfs. The Foreign Languages and Literature department presented this talk this week: Comic strips of Belgium or the big success of a small country La bande dessinee belge ou ce qui fait la grandeur dun petit pays Willem De Graeve Deputy Director, Belgian Comic Strip Centre Directeur Adjoint, Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinv ©e Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006 Time: 7:00 PM Location: 32-155 Talk is in English. Belgium is the country with the highest concentration of comic strip artists per square kilometer in the world. As much as Belgian beer and Belgian chocolate, comics represent a great source of pride for this small country! Willem De Graeve will discuss the history of Belgian comics, from Hergv © to Franquin, Morris, Peyo and Vandersteen, reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I used to watch Smurfs as a child; I even had the video game on Atari. OK, I think Im dating myself. Since my mom and grandparents were big proponents of education as a child, saturday morning cartoons were actually a learning experience; while everyone else was watching Wolverine beat up on Magneto, I had to write new vocabulary words that I learned from every episode, but I guess it helped me on my GREs. On to another topic, this week was also Halloween and appropriately, we celebrated. My fraternity put on a haunted house for the kids of our local neighborhood. While I did take a lot of pictures from the event, there is one that I think above all takes the cake. This is quite possibly the best halloween costumeEVER. And this is quite possibly the best advertisement ever: Trick or Treat!