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Check out the Nintendo House from Carnegie Mellon's spring carnival. Wouldn't you want to live there?

It's been making the net rounds all morning. We picked it up from Destructoid, but got some extra skinny from Dana Vinson, an alumni of that respected institution.

The pics were taken at the annual Spring Carnival. This year's theme is "Small Things Made Big," hence the Nintendo house, built by Sigma Epsilon fraternity.

"Carnegie Mellon is a buncha nerds, so there's always f*cking videogame sh*t," The foulmouth Vinson told TheFeed. "One year they re-built the Death Star for carnival. And there's intricate soapbox derby races. You know, nerd crap. "

"CMU is mainly engineering and architechture students, and they work on the carnival houses all year long. They're really structurally sound."  Vinson added. She went on to express admiration for the school's policy of giving students two days off to "drink beer and get laid... well, maybe most of them don't get laid, and if they do, it's nerd sex and that's gross."



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TKE, a frat here at my school, did a Super BBQ Bros booth at our carnival last year. They had a costumed Peach, three Marios (one racoon, one with a cape, and one in his fireball outfit), Luigi, Bowser, a koopa, and a goomba. they'd all walk around the carnival randomly, and whenever they ran into each other, they'd interact differently (the Mario's would stomp the koopa, throw a fireball [red and yellow balls] at the goomba, or go skipping with Peach or Luigi, etc.). Their actual booth was painted to match scenes common from the 8-bit games, they had stools made to look like the different mushrooms (i was the only one brave enough to sit on the Death Shroom), and so on and so forth. It's amazing what the frats can get done, and TKE's amazes me every year.