Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett '11, were working on something awesome. Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere.

For those who aren't familiar with the i3 DVD, i3 stands for the Interactive Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after CPW) to all the different dorms. Each dorm makes a short video showcasing the culture, talent, and innovation of each dorm, while also welcoming the incoming freshman class. Most i3 videos, especially Burton Conner videos, are a montage of parties, study breaks, and people running around the dorm yelling a lot set to loud music, but when we were elected i3 chairs we decided we wanted to do something a little... different. So without further ado, I present to you: the 2010 Burton Conner i3 video.

A few notes about this video:
* The film stars over sixty different people, and took over 40 hours to plan, shoot, and edit over a period of two and a half months.

* There are at least 14 different memes in this video.

* I sent 107 emails having to do with the i3 over the course of this year. A lot of them were very wordy and long-winded. Some of them were "oh my god, can we do that" emails. Other ones were "I can't believe we're doing that" emails.

* The video is currently posted on YouTube in HD, YouTube (regular quality), Vimeo, and TechTV, amassing over 10,000 views (10,377 to be exact).

* Snively and I each make cameo appearances in the video. (Garrett, on the other hand, was our camera man and didn't show up until we finally get a hold of a tripod at the end.) See if you can find us?

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Are you ever publishing the 'answer key' to the memes? I think I got like 12 or something, but I KNOW there's a few that eludes me still.

Posted by: Oasis '11 on May 25, 2010

This is amazing! Congrats to everyone at BC!

Posted by: Zach Bailey '08 on May 25, 2010

I already got this in the mail yesterday?

A few of them scared my dad.

Kudos ^^

Posted by: Michael '14 on May 25, 2010

Quelle delight!
Definitely puts Bexley to shame... :/

Posted by: K '14 on May 25, 2010

Totally AWESOME! Great lip sync-ing!

Posted by: genius ('18) on May 25, 2010

Freakin amazing. Best i3 ever.

Posted by: Anon on May 25, 2010

If anybody ever asks me why I love MIT so much, I am going to show them this video. Great job!

Posted by: Absent Moniker ('15) on May 25, 2010

@Chris (Oasis): Haha, eventually see if you can find the last two! I liked that you invented some that we didn't even intend to be memes..

Posted by: Jess on May 25, 2010

Hmm...after watching this video I'm beggining to question whether I want to go to MIT afterall.

Jk 8D

Posted by: Jon on May 25, 2010

WANT THE ANSWER KEY! =) Spotted some, and then some I'm not so sure - HI TAY!

Posted by: Justin on May 25, 2010

Tonight on the Late Show with David letterman, he had sarah jessica parker on and she mentioned someone getting excepted to MIT early admission? did anyone else see it because i missed who she was talking about

Posted by: Pere on May 26, 2010

Love the video. I saw a few memes there. Definitely clever.

Posted by: Steph on May 26, 2010

Nice... Love this kind of things...))

Posted by: Ruslan_91 on May 26, 2010

I watched almost every i3 video twice (but watched all at least once). for BC? I lost count after five =D So. Awesome.

Posted by: Gina '14 on May 26, 2010

The soda explosions (and the soda toss down the stairs)at the end were AWESOME!
Who was that at the end? "That was epic!"...LOL!
Overall, I LOOOVE it!

Posted by: genius ('18) on May 26, 2010

I watched it several weeks ago o.o

And, well, this video is indeed awesome

Posted by: Caio '15? on May 26, 2010

Nice video!

Posted by: Abhimat on May 26, 2010

Frickin Amazing!

Posted by: tonbot on May 26, 2010

How are dorms picked at MIT? Random?

Posted by: genius ('18) on May 27, 2010

OMGOMGOMG!!! That's so amazing!!! :D

I am sitting here with my mouth slightly hanging open (in a good way). This settles it--I think I WILL try to transfer after this upcoming year or next year, after all.

Don't think this sounds totally weird, but from what I've seen you guys...*look* different, somehow. I don't mean the costumes, but MIT people...it's puzzling. More animation on y'all's faces? Something like that? It's very appealing, though. I feel like I could walk up to anyone in that video and have at least one thing to talk about. Makes me want to get to college already...

Posted by: Anonymous/Excited/Likely Transfer App on May 27, 2010

@genius: Not randomly - it's a pretty unique system, actually. Prefrosh are allowed to check out all the different dorms during Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), after which they're sent a big packet with information about all the dorms and the i3 DVD, which has short videos from all the dorms (like this one we made here). Over the summer, prefrosh rank all their dorms in order of choice and are "temped" in a dorm for orientation - meaning they move into a dorm for two weeks or so. After this time there's Residence Exploration (REX), during which prefrosh check out all the different dorms and reassess their choice, and at the end of the week you get to re-rank your choices and move to your permanent dorm for the year. You can request to move within the housing system at just about any time, although you might get waitlisted for a while.

Whew, that was a lot of acronyms. Hope that makes sense!

Also, re: "that was epic": that would be Garrett, who was also the one singing (if you can call it that) at the end.

Posted by: Jess on May 27, 2010

My friends and I love the banana My friends and I love the banana <3

Posted by: Leilani '15? on May 27, 2010

Beware

This is a PG-rated video.

Posted by: Armin on May 28, 2010

@Oasis and anyone else who is wondering: Snively made an annotated version of the video on YouTube, so you can check out all the memes you missed here. Enjoy!

Posted by: Jess on May 28, 2010

That last dude with the blue shirt is one handsome man.

Posted by: Zam on May 28, 2010

^ I agree.

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BTW, SWEET! I can't believe I got every meme except the Amazing Horse (found out through Snively's earlier blog) and the giant rainbow cake.

Now I'm slightly worried about the amount of time I've spent on Youtube :p

ps. I was so convinced that the girls dancing on the table must be some reference, but it turns out it isn't...awww

And the last dance scene I maintain still looks like this, towards the end.

Posted by: Oasis '11 on May 28, 2010

holy shit, is that the "look at my horse" character on the wall in your dorm at like 40 seconds? badass.

Posted by: 0 on May 29, 2010

I swear I thought everyone was frozen at the end to re-enact the "improv everywhere" people when they did that in grand central! Grr..Haha but it was an amazing video! You should be so proud.

Posted by: 0 on May 30, 2010

That was definitely epic and I am now downloading to my iPod to spot all the memes, haha.

Posted by: Helen ('15 hopeful) on June 1, 2010

Lmfao i love this video and am choosing BC as my first choice =]

WHERE ARE YOU AND SNIVLEY?? And I think Snively is in the theU.com video for MIT lol.

Fav Memes I've spotted: Umbrella Corp,chocolate rain, PBJ time bananna, daft bodies, SHAMWOW!, Numa Numa, "where come the lions? they live in kenya!", * in a box!, dietcoke n mentos!

I LOVE BC! =D great job on the video lol

Posted by: Daniel '14 on June 1, 2010

@Daniel
Which one?

Posted by: Snively on June 2, 2010

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