Comments on: MIT Kicks Harvard’s Ass

By: Michelin Jeanty

Michelin Jeanty — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

I'm a great fan of MIT, but I'm not sure how they kick our asses. Sure they have a better technology school than we do, but overall, Harvard beat MIT.

By: steve_bergs2127

steve_bergs2127 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

I don't know what Michelin is talking about – it seems like an unfair fight to me. Harvard never had a chance.

By: aziz_griese5636

aziz_griese5636 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

I would have owned this part of the event. Trebuchet-flinging was standard protocol when I played with every toy I've ever owned.

"For observers, the Lego portion of the competition was perhaps the most dramatic. Student teams were given identical bags full of Lego parts and told to build a gravity-powered trebuchet that would fling a toy rubber tire across an 8-foot gap into a dog-bowl-sized bucket. There’s nothing like seeing 23 groups of 18-to-22 year olds sitting on the carpet around big piles of colored blocks, arguing about velocity versus angle of release and how to brace the trebuchet arm so that it doesn’t fly off with the tire."

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

Bring it on Crimson. Stanford welcomes the challenge.

By: ag

ag — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

don't forget where the founders of google went to school. i wouldn't be so fast judging stanford engineering :-p

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000

Oh yes – there’s that.