I lived there too! What a wonderful mess it was lol
One of my friends from high school was in Stanford's LSJUMB and while visiting him I got to briefly visit a couple of the Stanford co-ops. What struck me most was how similar the co-ops were despite being on literal opposite sides of the country. If there had been a magic wormhole-esque[0][1] portal that _actually_ linked the houses together, I would've only been mildly surprised
Long live pika! Long live shenanigans!
[0] http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/...
[1] https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/wormhole-connects-stan...
I believe there used to be a "wormhole" static video conference linking cafés at MIT and Stanford. You could sit down at a table at MIT and talk with people at Stanford or vice-versa.
It's a great idea that should be deployed not just at universities but other places as well.
my favorite pika stories are about Pi Kappa Alpha brothers from the South showing up and being extremely confused about the naked people
My favorite story is about the attempt to recreate cold fusion, resulting in a Nova special referring to it as “a secret physics society”.
I lived in a similar beautiful mess, but it still exists!
https://pika.mit.edu/