The MIT Beaver

the artist

The MIT Beaver. All it uses are its teeth and its sense about monetary matters (which is none.) The MIT Beaver resides in Chuck Creek in a town called Bohston, located in Massachusetts. Here's what the MIT Beaver does. It is an artist - working with all sorts of materials - paint, computers, chemicals, toxins, radioactive elements, its teeth, etc. on just about ALL mediums - paper, the nerds and geeks at MIT, professors, the great dome, the Green Building, Chuck creek, Hahvahd (a small liberal arts college up Chuck Creek), etc. Its budget? Who needs a budget when all the beaver needs to do is the suck endless amounts of monies from all sorts of people - nerds, geeks, professors, and Uncle Sam alike. To see work done by the MIT Beaver, you'll need to travel to the town of Bohston to investigate. When you see people with no money, chances are you're witnessing the work of the Beaver. When you see a police car on top of the Great Dome, You're witnessing the work of the Beaver. The game tetris on the Green Building. The giant dollar bill pained outside the wall of the financial office. The balloon that blew up in the middle of a Hahvahd foosball game. Students that stare into nothingless walking down the infinite corridor. All are works of the beaver. Chances are, you have a piece of the work at your home, too. The Computer is one of its more crazier works. That's the MIT Beaver.

the art

A lot of the Beaver's work is temporary - people dislike it so much that they have created a "Rapid Rescue Task Force" to remove the work of the Beaver. But some are permenant works, like your dry wallet, its endless quest for money and power, its own crisis with Uncle Sam armed with the axe. To see work done by the Beaver, you'll have to come to Bohston - but beware - you might become a piece of the "art" if you're not careful or too smart.

the beret

Ah - the artists's Beret. It's a hat in the form of the formula f'(x)=(3u^2+4u+3) x (100x^99)^100 x 0. The hat is very popular among people at MIT - it's everywhere. It's in your endless problem sets. The Exams. Your books. Your lecturer's brain. The black board. The students' nightmares. It's most likely the cause of ALL accidents in this country. The cause of insanity. The cause of Suicides. The cause of Evil and Revenge. And you can see it in action by paying a $120,000.00 fee (subject to increase without YOUR approval) to be admitted into the institution. My name is Ho Yin Au, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm a friend of Sarah's, when she started working at Malden Access TV. My interests are playing the Piano and the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer, creating drawings on paper and on the computer, like to manipulate photo on the computer, want to produce or make TV shows, animations, biking, ping pong, programming, HTML Authoring, net'surfing, and writing (even I'm grammar deficient.)

Submitted by Ho Yin Au (hya@mit.edu), on Tuesday, September 19, 1995, from Malden, MA, USA