MIT’s Building 10
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MIT’s Building 10 and the well known Great Dome overlooking Killian Court. 6/25/2012 3:18:21 PM

Stata Center
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The Stata Center houses CSAIL, LIDS, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. 6/25/2012 3:42:45 PM

Police car prank
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The police car that was placed on top of the Great Dome as a student prank without anyone knowing about it is now an exhibit on campus. 6/25/2012 3:49:00 PM

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university with an emphasis on research in science, technology and mathematics. It is located in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 with an emphasis on applied technology and basic science research and was elected to The Association of American Universities in 1934. The 160 acre campus opened in 1916 in Cambridge Massachusetts; one mile of which borders the Charles River. Within the five schools and one college at MIT there are 32 departments. Numerous Nobel Laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, Rhodes Scholars, and MacArthur Fellows are currently on the faculty or have been on the faculty at MIT in the past. Among some of the Nobel Laureates affiliated with MIT are Luis Alverez, Richard Fieyman, Mario Molina, George Smoot, and Steven Weinberg.

MIT students are known for pulling harmless pranks on their own campus or on rival universities. One of these pranks, which are also referred to at MIT as hacks, happened in April, 2012, when the earth and planetary science building became an enormous Tetris game. The windows on the outside of the building would light up in different colors and could be controlled by a console on the grounds in front of the building. Students could actually play Tetris with the windows of the building. Another such hack occurred at Harvard’s stadium during the Harvard/Yale football game in 2000 when stuffed beavers were dropped from a balloons overhead. The beaver is MIT’s mascot because the beaver is the natural engineer.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research, and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts Institute of Technology