Academic Insanity

So, I've been in college for a while now, and there's one thing I've become convinced of. Putting so many people with different majors in close quarters isn't a wise thing to do. When we get bored, we come up with crazy ideas, and because we have access to diabolical minds and facilities that we probably shouldn't be allowed in.
Case in point. Over spring break, three of my friends didn't have anything to do, and were trapped in the dorms the whole time. That madness brought forth the combined efforts of an engineer and a chemistry major to create a Potato Cannon.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Everyone makes potato cannons at some time in their life if they're bored enough...but once other people start having ideas, things get a little more complicated.
What started with a trip to Safeway to get essential foodstuffs (i.e. chips, soda, donuts) ended with us trying to steal a shopping cart. Out of laziness. But we soon had the idea that we could use it for MUCH better purposes. Namely, creating a tank. As soon as we became 100% sure that we didn't want to carry our groceries the couple blocks back to the dorm and that we'd be theifing the cart, we couldn't help but wonder what we'd use the cart for after we were done utilizing it's carrying capabilities. And we decided that it made perfect sense to convert it into a tank.
Unfortunately our goals were shattered by the stupid cart having some sort of locking mechanism on it's wheel so we couldn't easily roll it out. So instead of just picking the damn thing up and walking it back to campus to dismantle the sensor and create our tank, we flipped the thing over for spiting up and then hid it.
But some day soon we WILL go and steal that cart. And when the tank is done, the inevitable next step is to get the engineers and the computer science major in our group to make it sentient. And then Skynet will form a year or two afterwards. So...I guess we just damned mankind...but at least we'll get a cool tank out of it!