Funniest thing I saw during finals week at the Academy was when one guy decided he was done studying for his last final, he taped a huge stack of books to his busted chair (we had a bad lot of chairs that broke all the time and his must have broken during finals), doused it with liquid shoe polish, lit it on fire, and pushed it out of the 6th floor window into the quad below. It was more fun because he didn't realize that a few windows down someone was rappelling out their window on a "study break", so that got a little more exciting.
And of course when they played taps every night during finals week, about half of the cadet wing would open their windows and start howling and screaming. Funny and sort of creepy too since some people were really good at screaming like they were being murdered. Good stuff, and then they went back to studying of course.