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Gallery > 9.21.07 - Homecoming Week Murals (8)

Last week the IIT community busted out with Homecoming activities, including varsity volleyball and soccer games, and a lip sync competition, scavenger hunt, and improv comedy performance - talk about Scarlet Fever!! The festivities concluded with a campus-wide carnival and dance, the former of which featured a vertical wind tunnel skydiving simulator ("the hit" of the party, as you may have guessed), bungee trampolining, sumo suits, and much, much more. Unfortunately, I didn't make it out to all the events listed above (see Marc's blog for coverage of those), but I did get a chance to snap shots of some of the students' spirited murals, which graced the entrances of the academic buildings for the duration of Homecoming Week.

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I began my jaunt at Perlstein Hall, home to the Office of Undergraduate Admission (if you've visited us before, you may recognize the windows in the background) and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (ChBE).
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Here's a close-up of the XC team's mural; I particularly like the multi-colored running shorts. (Warning: this mural treats the opponents better than most.)
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Those 'ballers are pretty competIITive for an out-of-season sport's team, if you ask me....(BTW, this building is home to the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering.)
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A brief anatomical lesson disguised as a broad claim to dominance and glory on the side of Engineering 1 (home to the Departments of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, as well as Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics).
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I like the work being done with words, here ("spirIIT"; "IIT" instead of "IT"), and the depiction of the archtypal annoying fan (they got the posture just right). What do you think is being spiced on the plate to the right?
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All we can hope here is that the fallen opponents get to the hospital before anyone has a law-suit on their hands. The Life Sciences Building (evident) is home to the Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences, and to the Institute of Psychology.
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The Honors Medical Society has provided us with a lovely mural, for sure, but without answering everyone's favorite age-old question: where do birds place the ear pieces of their stethoscopes?!
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Back home at Perlstein Hall, it's apparent that these murals brighten campus up from the outside and the inside. Just grab a seat in one of Mies' Barcelona chairs and enjoy the view!!