Q:  How Many Media Lab Graduate Students does it take to change a light bulb?

• Five.  One to change the bulb, and four to demo the technique to sponsors

• Three.  One to change the bulb, and two to make a video / web page / write a HCI paper about how the Media Lab way of changing light bulbs is unique and forward thinking.

• None.  It's a smart context-aware light bulb of the future that knows when it's burned out and changes itself

• Six:   One to buy an item that already contains a light bulb, three to take that item apart, and two to use that bulb to replace the broken one.

• Five.  One to change the bulb, and four to say:  "All he did was change a light bulb".

• None.  Graduate students don't change light bulbs.  That's what UROPs are for.

• Six, one to change the bulb, and four to be smug about how industry does it in such an unprincipled way

• Four.  One to change the light bulb, and three to do a web search for light bulb changing conferences in Italy.

• Three.  One to change the bulb, and two to debate if the bulb changing technique was sufficiently general to be applied to all faulty illumination devices.

• None.  A Media Lab grad student would create a software simulation on a high-end graphics workstation to prove that lightbulb changing is possible, and leave the actual implementation to industry.

• Two.  One to change the bulb, and one to have the group's Admin Assist order enough Chinese food for 20.

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