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EH

The most amazing thing is how they were able to simulate audio-video desyncronization.
- Chris Peterson
  
  yeah, sorry about that :(
  
  for some reason the audio/video didn’t go completely in sync. as for the levels and such, this was just something they did for admitted students which we filmed in the audience.
  
  <3 chorallaries
Warren_Terra

Talented people singing a funny song is always good, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Still, to nitpick, they really should have used more than one mike and adjusted the levels, because the tum-te-tum-te-tum often drowned out actual lyrics.
- SamSam
  
  Huh, I counted at least six mikes, so I’d say they had that part right.
  
  As for the levels, well, getting a bunch of mikes wired up is a fun engineering problem, and that big board with the sliders is really fun, but no one ever said they had an ear, I guess. :)
- Sam_Sonite
  
  Those things on stands pointed toward the singers are microphones (mics), same for the suspended in the air on booms. Just sayin
slippy0

Go MIT :)

I see a few of my friends in there. Shout out to Ricky for being the sassiest singer I know.
Christian Vogel

Based on “Godiva”, page 27 in http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1970s/1972ca_national_engineering_book_of_song_and_verse_(PB)/index.htm
http://twitter.com/ColumbusArea Adolph Marx

Wow, such a pale bunch! ;)
Drew Beechum

It wouldn’t be the Engineer’s Drinking song if it weren’t NSFW!
SamSam

I must say, I don’t quite understand the line “MIT was MIT when Harvard was a pup.”

Given that MIT was founded in 1861, it would seem as if Harvard was already about 200 years old when MIT was born.

Maybe they mean something else?
evanberkowitz

An artist and an engineer once found a gallon can.
The artist said “Match me drink for drink, let’s see if you’re a man!”
They drank three drinks, the artist fell, his face was turning green,
The engineer drank on and said “It’s only gasoline!”

My father pedals opium, my mother’s on the dole,
My sister used to walk the streets but now she’s on parole,
My brother runs a restaurant with bedrooms in the rear,
but they won’t even talk to me, ’cause I’m an engineer!

Princeton’s run by Wellesley, and Wellesley’s run by Yale
Yale is run by Vassar, and Vassar’s run by tail.
Harvard’s run by stiff pricks, the kind you raise by hand.
But MIT’s run by engineers, the finest in the land.
- blue balaclava
  
  At least we have a handy list of which schools’ populations categorically refuse to sleep with them….
Noodle

Hmm.. That’s not the engineers song I know, it involves a large metal wheel..
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=709870924 Debra Benator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf34BcfOBgE

A sweet and synchronized version with alumni
maryr

Needs less noodley singing, more verses! More verses!
blue balaclava

And it’s nice to know that the proud engineer tradition of sexism and homophobia’s being passed on to the next generation….
Joshua Jung

HOLY CRAP. I just stumbled upon this, and I went to high school with one of them. Haven’t talked in like 2 years! AHHH

The MIT Chorallaries perform "The Engineers' Drinking Song"

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