Halloween Festivities

These last few weeks were very busy at the iSchool with midterms upon us, but we still managed to sneak in some Halloween fun!

The week before Halloween, everyone was invited to the crypt formerly known as South Hall to enhance their costumes at the Monster Ball Clinic. One of my classmates from Tangible User Interfaces used a white cardboard box to make a scary monster head with razor jaws that she programmed to light up and roar. Costume Clinicians made antennae and other fun costume accents out of LEDs.

The festivities continued on Tuesday when the Master's students and faculty gathered outside of South Hall with carving knives and seed shovels to beautify some pumpkins. The typical iSchool charm was found among them all: the XML pumpkin (with the < > brackets, carved by the XML Foundations professor, Erik Wilde), the iSchool logo pumpkin (with the i man), an artistic pumpkin, and a few angry/evil looking ones. They were on display for all to see until All Hallow's Eve when we took them inside for safe keeping.

We can't forget about the day itself! My only class on Wed. is Information Organization and Retrieval, a class required of all Master's Students. I got together with some fellow first-years and decided to dress up as an infamous concept often referred to during our study of IO: the Document Type Spectrum. The idea is to think of document types as points on a spectrum with presentation, content, and structure rules determining where the document falls. It's one of those things where if you took the class, you would get why it's so nerdy...I mean funny. ;-)

Gotta love the iSchool. =)

*Thanks to Ken-ichi for the Monster Ball photo*