Word: severances
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...from 2004—understands that it fails miserably at its most rudimentary purpose: functionality. Besides stale grant applications, the site’s voting system has proven difficult to configure in the past, and individuals still have access to the system who have long since departed Sever...
...post, particularly in later years, placed him at the heart of the campus, where he could be seen nights patrolling the grounds around Sever Hall...
When Manning was helping design the two rovers now operating on Mars, he was faced with a problem of how to sever electrical cables so that the surface-bound vehicles could separate from their delivery craft. Rules require that power be shut down before the cables are cut in order to prevent a short, but there was insufficient space inside the ship for all the electrical relays to do that job. Manning's team designed a fix that he thought would sidestep the problem, but when he tried it out in tests, it failed--as the people who drafted...
...State Fair, students gathered around the dunk tank in front of Sever Hall to try their hand at soaking faculty members and student leaders. Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 was the first to be dunked...
What I know not, as I shuttle between Robinson and Sever Halls, is whether our brilliant physics and math concentrators are as outlandish as reputed. My acquaintances do not confirm the rule, leading to the suspicion that the true aliens are all at MITbut before I graduate, I will be sure to shop as many advanced theoretical math lectures as possible in order to confirm that hypothesis. At the very least, I hope to finally experience a shopping week that will make me feel better about the stylishness of my concentration instead of irremediably worse...