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The 2005 CSAIL Olympics
January 20-28
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Event
Date/Time
Location
Commissioner

Trivial Pursuit
Teams compete in the popular board game. Results
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G9 Lounge Randall Davis

Dodge Ball
Meet your labmates, and throw things at them! It'll be just like gym class, but with all nerds and no bullies.

Be at the MAC Courts of the Z-Center at 1PM.

Results
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Show up at the MAC Courts (in Z-Center) Jacob Eisenstein

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I play the first three notes (or fewer) of a Beatles song. You guess the name of the song. Results
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28  
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28  
Strawberry Fields (G9 Lounge) Ali Rahimi (aka ali)

Bake-off
Bake your best stuff and then gorge yourself on everyone else's! Results
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34  
G9 Lounge Maysoon Hamdiyyah

Party!!!
Come and see the amazing spectacles and attractions at the StataWorld party! Results
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33  
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24A Union St Louis-Philippe Morency, Neal Checka, and Mario Christoudias

Put your photoshop skills into work
This is a photoshop editing contest. The goal is to see who has the best picture editing skills and have fun on the way... Take this as an opportunity to learn more about your favorite image editing tool, be it photoshop or gimp. You never know when such skills may come in handy. We ensure that when the time comes, you leave grad school knowing at least one useful thing. Results
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N/A Metin Sezgin

Chair Long Jump
Use your well developed sitting muscles to propell yourself at high velocity. Results
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28  
32-D4 Lounge Sy Bor Wang

Disc Golf
Come play the amazing, wild and wacky new 9-hole StataWorld Disc Golf Course! Results
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Meet at the disc golf hole (Student Street, 2nd floor, on stair landing near satellite dish) Rodney Daughtrey

Tower of Terror
Pointy Things + Gravity = Fun!! Results
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28  
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260 (2nd floor lounge) Quig

Tweaking Stata
Wearing architect Gehry's or your own hat, your team redesigns "problem" areas in Stata. Results
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Meet in 2ndFloor lounge Konstantinos Tsakonas

Citation Count Plummet
How many people will ever read your masters thesis? PhD thesis? Find out with the new (patent pending) Citation Count Plummet! We will use the Stata stairwell to calculate the impact of your admissions essay, masters thesis, phd thesis, and job application. (you do NOT need to bring any of these, as we have found that using the actual documents reduces accuracy). Click on the image to the left for scoring details. Results
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near G900 (stairwell 3) Rob Seater

Broomball

*** CANCELED DUE TO SNOW ***


From Snow Globe Land to you its the n+1'th anual broomball event. Smack a ball with a broom, fall on your bum, it's all good and everyone can enjoy it.
Results
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Some Frozen Pond Mike Oltmans

Movie Night
Come watch Disney's "Monsters Inc."!!! Pizza will be served! Results
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30  
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33  
Star (32-D463) Wanmei Ou

Basketball
Full court, five on five. Points are awarded for participation. Results
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MAC court, in the Z-center 3rd floor Kristen

Mafia!
The village looks like a quiet place, nice people, friendly faces... but at night... someone is going to die... Results
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32-D4 lounge Anna

Pub Crawl
Roam the streets of Boston in search of the best pubs in town. Results
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Dreyfoos entrance David

Know Thy Spaces and Species
The traditional game of identifying lab members and trying to spell their names is augmented this year by photos of memorable spots or items in NE43, or interesting places in 32. Submit nominations to gremio now! Results
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G9 Lounge Gremio

Closing Ceremonies
Scores will be tallied and a victor declared! (There will also be food. ;)) Friday,
January 28
6:30pm-9:30pm
G9 Lounge Mario Christoudias

Film Event
"Kids, we're going to StataWorld!" ** Show why your theme park is the happiest place on earth! Create a short film promoting rides, shows and fun characters. ** Results
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G9 Lounge Kate Saenko

Please send bugs/problems/questions to the olympics commissioner.