Word: mocking
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Such “hacks” have a rich history at MIT. There is even a university website, hacks.mit.edu, which documents and glorifies these pranks. Among the most notorious was the 1999 transformation of MIT’s Great Dome into a gargantuan, mock R2-D2 paying homage to the release of “Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace...
...recalls a study in which experimenters attached electrodes to her head and subjected her to a grueling mock interview. That study paid $25 for about two hours...
...short papers during his senior year of high school. His mother allowed her children to plan out their own schedules but insisted they finish the entire textbook.“I liked the flexibility but I was always a little bitter about it,” Norberg says with mock resentment. “My friends in public school rarely finished their whole book but I often had to do school throughout the summer to finish math or science. I never once had a summer off.”HELPING THE HOMESCHOOLERS ADJUSTIt is almost midnight back in Weld...
...last November, the Boston University CRs endured a barrage of criticism for sponsoring a “Whites-only” scholarship, ostensibly to lament race-based academic preferences. A month later, Tuft University’s conservative journal, The Primary Source, generated a hullabaloo over an unfortunately irreverent mock-Christmas carol, “O Come All Ye Black Folk,” written in opposition to diversity-minded admissions decisions...
...Carnival here has its roots in the 18th century, begun by slaves who would dress in costumes to mock their French and Spanish masters during their own pre-lenten festivities. The British colonial administrators, however, were not amused by the mockery and tried to shut down the practice. Riots resulted. Eventually, the slaves won over the authorities with their celebration. Later, the event grew larger and more elaborate. Steel drums were added, and costumes became more flamboyant. As immigrants from India, China and the Middle East arrived, the cultural mix became more intense and Carnival even more colorful...