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we ran a march to get googly eyes on the MBTA | arielle lok

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me and john, my beloved coworker turned best co-schemer, were sitting in weathering heights (our office) on a warm march day reminiscing about how it’s been far too long since we ran a shenanigan. john started the choosening at harvard, where every week was a week, and i started lettuce clubs across canadian universities, where university students annually raced to eat an entire head of lettuce. “it’s far too hard to run a shenanigan when you’re out of school,” was our thought. many a schemer would yell into their dorm hallway and gather a crowd. when we yell in our out-of-school glory, it is thrown into the void never to be heard again. …an hour later, we began planning our googly eye antic. it was a line in my “misc ideas to do” doc (it is over 100 lines long). and we just went with the flow. on april 1st, we sat down at silly hacks and wrote all the copy and published our event page for april 29th. for 2 weeks it went forgotten and gathered dust. 10 days before the event, we had 2 r

we ran a march to get googly eyes on the MBTA | arielle lok go back june 30, 2024 update: yeah so this march worked pretty well 👍 new press The New York Times: In Boston, All Aboard Googly-Eyed Trains New York Post: Boston trains get 'googly eyes,' give riders 'joy' on their commutes Washington Post: Organizers marched to get googly eyes on Boston trains. Officials listened. Boston.com: Here's looking at you, kid: MBTA adds googly eyes to several trains following grassroots campaign NBC: MB-see-A? The T put googly eyes on five of its trains. Here's why. Boston Globe: The T Gets Visionary CBC:

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