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Encyclopedia > MIT hacks

An MIT hack is defined as a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT hack is rarely harmful and is usually set out to demonstrate a physical challenge for the MIT undergraduate. Rather, these pranks become the center of attention and establish the jovial character of the college's students. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ...


The best hacks are humorous technical feats. The most famous hacks have been the weather balloon saying "MIT" which popped up out of the ground on the 50 yard line at the Harvard / Yale Football Game, and The Great Dome Police Car Hack, where the body shell of a campus police car mysteriously appeared on the top of the almost inaccessible Great Dome one morning, complete with a dozen donuts. [1] The Great Dome was also "dressed" as R2-D2 to celebrate the release of Star Wars Episode I. More recently, the MIT Dome was the site of another famous hack - when a replica of the 1905 Wright Brothers' Plane appeared there, celebrating 100 years of flight. See also hack (technology slang) and roof and tunnel hacking. The Game (always capitalized) is a title used to describe several college football rivalry games, but most particularly the annual game in November at the end of the schools football season, between the Harvard University Crimson and the Yale University Bulldogs or Elis, currently alternating between Harvard Stadium and the... For the weapons system nicknamed R2-D2, see Phalanx CIWS. R2-D2 (called R2, or Artoo for short), is an astromech droid and colleague of C-3PO in the fictional Star Wars universe, created not long before 32 BBY. R2-D2 was played by Kenny Baker in all six Star... Film poster for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 film by George Lucas starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, and Jake Lloyd. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A mural by Roof & Tunnel Hackers at MIT. Roof and Tunnel Hacking is the unauthorized (generally prohibited and often outright illegal) entry into and exploration of roof and utility tunnel spaces. ...


Timeline

2006

The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ... (Redirected from 2006 Olympics) See also: 2006 Winter Paralympics The XX Olympic Winter Games will be held in Turin, Italy from February 10 to 26. ...

References

  1. Hacks by Year.

External links


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Academics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seal This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ...

Broad InstituteLincoln LaboratoryOpenCourseWareSloan School of Management The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, formerly the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR), is a multidisciplinary institution dedicated to fulfilling the potential of genomics for the biomedical sciences. ... MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded by the United States Department of Defense. ... MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from MITs undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, free and openly available to anyone, anywhere, by the year 2007. ... The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT Sloan is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply...

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AlumniFacultyPresidents This is a list of famous individuals associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including graduates, former students, and professors. ... This is a list of famous individuals associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including graduates, former students, and professors. ...

Buildings

ChapelGreen BuildingInfinite CorridorKresge AuditoriumStata Center Exterior. ... Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Infinite Corridor is the hallway, 251 meters (825 feet) long, that runs through the main building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Kresge Auditorium from rear, looking toward I. M. Peis Green Building. ... Stata Center Building 32 at Night The Ray and Maria Stata Center is a 430,000-ft² (40,000 m²) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Student Life

AthenaBrass RatHacksIHTFPThe Tech Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. It was launched in 1983, and ran through June 30, 1991, eight years after it began. ... The first MIT Brass Rat MITs class ring is crafted each year by a student committee to present a unique yet traditional expression of MIT. It has three main segments: the bezel, containing a beaver (MITs mascot, from which the Rat in Brass Rat is derived), the MIT... MIT redirects here. ... Front page of The Tech, issue of January 18, 2006 The Tech, first published in 1881, is the oldest and largest campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the first newspaper to be published online. ...

Residences

GraduateUndergraduate This is a list of the graduate dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... // This is a list of the undergraduate dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...


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