Jessie L. '07 | March 02, 2006
"MIT wins the gold"
Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09.
A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals.
A much more close-up shot. You can see the construction and securing details.
It was a very windy day, but the medal stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape.
MIT's victory attracted quite a bit of news coverage.
Not that such odd occurrances are so unusual at MIT. You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here. Unfortunately most of them have no descriptions or pictures yet, but it at least tells a lot of what's been going on.
What's your favorite MIT hack?
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This ones ' quasi-cool ' for me...but nice nevertheless....MITs hacks are always fun to observe and inspiring as well - in a way...
my fave has to be when the Dome was converted into R2D2.....a photo of that is still my wallpaper
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/r2d2
thats the link if you want to see the photos...signing it as Rebel Scum is so brilliant and so MIT !!!
Posted by: Aditya - Darth Adoous on March 2, 2006 12:06 PM
How do you feel about the Tech Op-ed piece about hackers?
Posted by: Anonymous on March 2, 2006 07:40 PM
Could you link to that Op-Ed piece online anywhere?
Posted by: would like to read it on March 2, 2006 07:51 PM
the police car hack is pretty neat.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 2, 2006 09:38 PM
Do "hacks" occur very often at MIT? Seems like there were already five or so pranks done this year.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 2, 2006 09:40 PM
Do "hacks" occur very often at MIT? Seems like there were already five or so pranks done this year.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 2, 2006 09:40 PM
Do "hacks" occur very often at MIT? Seems like there were already five or so pranks done this year.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 2, 2006 09:41 PM
I've always loved the police car one.
Did you see the Harry Potter scar from over the summer? It's not as impressive as the other ones, but it was still pretty cool to see, especially if you're into the HP fandom! :)
Posted by: Shan on March 2, 2006 11:39 PM
I loved the buzzword-bingo, but the R2D2 hack was quite neat too actually.. closely followed by super mario and "you must be at least this smart.. " ;)
Posted by: Dinyar on March 3, 2006 01:22 PM
