He's gonna go far...

There's a pretty notorious cadet here with a mind for ingenious tasks. Tasks guaranteed to get him punishments. Thankfully he's written this stuff up for the campus newspaper so I can relay it properly.

First was the installation of a satellite dish his sophomore year so the seniors would have good reception. He spent many hours crawling in the ceilings, laying tons of cable and then installed a dish on the roof.

Next came the revamping of his room. He stripped the wood floors, and stained them with a lovely mahogany and finished by adding polyurethane for extra shine. He then painted the furniture black and left the wood tops. He could have left well enough alone but no, he went yet another step and rid his room of the "institutional flourescent lights that were killing the ambiance of the room." So he installed track lighting that was even controlled by a dimmer switch. He even went so far as to install out-of-view air conditioning and placed art on the walls. It lasted a full four days before he was busted and I think he'd say it was worth all the tours he got.

Oh, tours are a marching punishment that almost every cadet gets around here. I'm actually friends with one cadet who hasn't gotten any which is quite impressive.

Anyway his excessive tours gave him another idea. It used to be that cadets could try to use an ear bud attached to a hidden music device to make the walking time more enjoyable. That was stopped. As most military, they walk carrying a fake rifle. The aforementioned cadet bought an extra rifle, stuck his iPod in the stock and wired a tiny speaker at the top so it'd be right by his ear. He calls it the iRifle. He even published pictures and diagrams of how he did it. The only thing that gave it away were the controls at the bottom of the rifle where you hand holds it. Word of the iRifle spread and it got to his commanding officers. Yup, it was taken away so now he's helping other cadets fashion iRifles of their own.

Genius.