Hasta La Ideas

MIT students are known to be problem-solvers, which gets interesting when the problem they set for themselves is “How can we get a campus police car on top of the Great Dome?” They pulled that one off in 1994, as one of the famous MIT student pranks that are referred to at MIT as “hacks.” Other hacks have included turning the Dome into R2D2 for the release of The Phantom Menace and stealing Caltech’s Fleming Cannon from its California campus, transporting it to Boston and bolting a giant MIT class ring onto it.

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