Laura N. '09 | November 09, 2008
"My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours"
So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular choice anyway, because it was exactly what I really wanted but was not confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people dressed up for Halloween...seniors are lame) as....
Trinity, of course.
Vinyl jacket, fashionable sunglasses (which I of course had to wear inside and at night), all black clothing, combat boots, and fingertip-less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character.
I basically walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a Halloween event sponsored by one of MIT's student groups. Where I met Neo. We ran into each other on line waiting for skates, introduced ourselves in real life, and chatted every time we saw each other for the rest of the night.
Unfortunately I quickly discovered after dressing myself up that I was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and therefore doing one in a full length vinyl jacket while shooting a Nerf gun was going to be totally impossible. Also, my awesome sunglasses did not give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly inflate my ego by making me feel like a total badass.
But I still looked really cool.
Feel free to tell me how awesome I am.
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Wow, that's intense!
Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 01:00 PM
You are seriously looking gr8.
Posted by: Monorina on November 9, 2008 01:01 PM
AWESOME.
much cooler than my harry potter dementor outfit =P
Posted by: hamsi on November 9, 2008 01:28 PM
you look great! looks like MIT is a cool place to be in halloween
BTW, paris hilton, if we were interested in seeing porn, we wouldn`t be looking in the MIT admissions website
Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 01:44 PM
Are you going to keep your hair color or change it back to its natural color? It looks fantastic! The costume is amazing!
Posted by: anonymous on November 9, 2008 02:22 PM
Yeah, you're pretty damn awesome! Even your facial expression is right on. Great costume!
Posted by: Jeremy '12 on November 9, 2008 02:25 PM
O_o omg that has gotta be the best trinity outfit i've seen and i've seen about three lol. But it is no match for my ash ketchum outfit..... jk yours totally kicked my costumes butt lol
Posted by: Chris O on November 9, 2008 02:34 PM
wow, your costume just made me want to go watch the matrix xD.
Posted by: wendi on November 9, 2008 03:25 PM
You should have sprayed the nerf gun black.
But still It is totally awesome!
Posted by: Ehsan on November 9, 2008 03:37 PM
My costume (greaser of sorts) also required me to wear sunglasses during nighttime AND without my glasses. I was pretty much relying on my friends not to let me walk into cars.
Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 03:55 PM
that is the greatest thing ever. i am seriously impressed.
Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 04:07 PM
Actually, yeah. I concede. :)
Posted by: Paul on November 9, 2008 05:04 PM
suggestion: put a captcha on these blogs.
Posted by: Reena on November 9, 2008 05:06 PM
The nerf gun unfortunately didn't belong to me, so I couldn't exactly just mess with it.
And the hair dye is the "washes out after 30 showers" variety, so it will eventually fade back to my normal dark-ish brown.
Posted by: Laura on November 9, 2008 05:07 PM
Wow, that's got to be one of the best pictures of you I've seen. You should've gone without the nerf gun. No pictures of the combat boots?
Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 05:23 PM
Wow, sweet costume! Looking at those pics made me genuinely scared of you.
Posted by: Mikey on November 9, 2008 06:55 PM
OMG!! MIT students do something besides studies.
Posted by: one who failed on November 9, 2008 09:01 PM
Hey, yeah nice outfit.
@ Reena: I kinda agree with Reena; this place would do better with a captcha.
Posted by: Apoorv on November 9, 2008 09:03 PM
about the captchas: they have been discussed, but most of them violate accessibility laws (for example they make it much more difficult for blind people to navigate the site)
Posted by: Laura on November 9, 2008 09:28 PM
I'm going to be a total nerd and celebrate the fact that you're pointing a Maverick as your weapon. Huzzah!
Posted by: Leah on November 10, 2008 03:17 PM
the second picture needs a "Dodge this" caption
Posted by: Xavier on November 10, 2008 05:10 PM
You're...umm, awesome? You're AWESOME!!!
Posted by: Banerjee on November 11, 2008 08:00 AM
You're...umm, awesome? You're AWESOME!!!
Posted by: Banerjee on November 11, 2008 08:00 AM
A girl in chem department dressed up as EDTA on the ground it looks exactly like a person. She went around catching people by the arm and telling them to "get more positive" all day.
Posted by: Anonymous on November 11, 2008 10:41 PM
