Ah, Spring Break-- we can still remember those halcyon days in college when we'd spend a week in some sunny clime, lounging on the beach and letting all of our cares wash away with the tide. Of course, we only remember that because we've seen too many cheesy teen beach movies and we're increasingly losing the ability to distinguish between memories of fiction and what really happened. Our real Spring Breaks were generally spent on campus, working on late term papers, putting in more hours in the lab, trying to catch up on two months' worth of lost sleep, and-- you guessed it-- watching cheesy teen beach movies on TV. Call it Spring Break by proxy.

That's not to say that we MIT students didn't know how to get crazy and have fun, nosirree. Our only regret is that the recent JELL-O® iMac contest was held several years too late for us to have participated. Screw prancing around on some polluted beach and absorbing cancer-inducing rays; the real Spring Break fun comes from building computers out of gelatinous foodstuffs. We told you about this contest before, but now Apple's posted their own page on the event, and it includes lots of cool pictures of the winners and runners-up. The level of detail in some of the entries is impressive, given the medium... some included the distinctive iMac handle, one displayed an ichthyologically-themed screen saver (Gummi fish!), and one had an impressively realistic Bondi mouse and keyboard-- including a JELL-O mousepad.

Of course, the really impressive thing is that one of the entries displayed a formidable degree of structural integrity. Meaning, it was dropped out of a third-story window without splattering; it actually bounced. Honestly, what could be a more fun way to spend Spring Break than building an iMac out of JELL-O and then heaving it out of a window? It beats beach volleyball any day of the week.