who is’t art we?

We’re Stickman! aka π e stickman, aka 1W/First West, aka Keepers of the (Base)men(t), aka the First Floor of the West Parallel of East Campus of MIT. A notable “resident” of Stickman is our sexy cardboard cutout of Shakespeare (pictured above), arguably the sexiest of all cardboard cutout Shakespeares known to humanity. Ask us about his codpiece! We’re also known for running the annual Pumpkin Drop off the Green Building.

Since Talbot Lounge/Fred Desk takes up the Munroe section, we’re a smaller, but very tight-knit community that’s somehow chill and chaotic at the same time. Our kitchen is on the cleaner end too. Residents are into anything and everything, including and not limited to: artisanal codpiece forging, exploring, spinning arts, 7/11 runs in the wee hours of the morning, mural painting/glueing, “wHOlEsome” readalongs, taking apart electronics, extensive whiteboard diagramming, etc. Nonresidents are always welcome to join our cephalopod hours ;).

also octagons.

cephalowhat

Cephalopod translates from Greek into “head foot.” As a hall predominately composed of homo sapiens, our heads are not directly connected to our feet, but sometimes it’s as if we are collectively thinking with our feet with the nonsensical content spewing out of our mouths. One is also prone to spontaneously erupt into extensive whiteboard diagramming to complement such nonsensical content. We dub such sacred yet sacrilegious episodes “cephalopod hours.”

In the original words of moeman99 ’21, the creator of the term “cephalopod hours,” it’s “basically if you should be sleeping but are up talking with people instead.”

Such hours are less to be textually described, and more to be experienced.

artwork above by audcui ’24

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