An MIT "hack" is an creative, benign, and nameless prank or useful comic story, frequently requiring engineering or clinical services and infrequently pulled off less than disguise of darkness -- circumstances of campus mischief occasionally coinciding with April Fool's Day, ultimate assessments, or graduation. (It shouldn't be burdened with the occasionally non-benign phenomenon of laptop hacking.) Noteworthy MIT hacks through the years comprise the mythical Harvard--Yale soccer video game Hack (when a climate balloon emblazoned "MIT" popped out of the floor close to the 50-yard line), the campus police automobile chanced on perched at the nice Dome, the obvious disappearance of the Institute president's place of work, and a fake cathedral (complete with stained glass home windows, organ, and marriage ceremony) in a foyer. Hacks are via their nature ephemeral, even supposing they survive within the reminiscence of either perpetrators and spectators. Nightwork, drawing at the MIT Museum's designated number of hack-related photos and different fabrics, describes and files the easiest of MIT's hacks and hacking tradition. This generously illustrated up-to-date version has extra assurance of such contemporary hacks because the cross-country abduction of rival Caltech's cannon (a prank requiring months of making plans, complex choreography, and last-minute improvisation), a fireplace truck at the Dome that marked the 5th anniversary of 9-11, and diverse pokes on the celebrated Frank Gehry-designed Stata heart, or even a operating solar-powered pink Line subway automobile at the nice Dome. Hacks were stated to precise the essence of MIT, delivering, as alumnus Andre DeHon observes, "an chance to illustrate creativity and information in getting to know the actual world." What higher technique to mark the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of MIT's founding than to commemorate its local ingenuity with this re-creation of Nightwork?