# MIT Celebrates 'Pi Day' With Star Wars-Themed Video **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** tools, gaming\ **Created:** [March 15, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/mit-celebrates-pi-day-with-star-wars-themed-video/73500 "2020-03-15T13:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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[DevNull127](https://entertainment.slashdot.org/~DevNull127) writes: _MIT has a long-standing tradition. High school seniors who’ve been accepted into next year’s class at MIT are informed on Pi Day (March 14th — that is, 3/14). And each year there’s also a slick video touting the URL where students can check whether they’ve been admitted. ([Last year’s video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvYNJQ7OXnc&feature=youtu.be) documented a massive project that involved 30 sacks of charcoal plus several hundred pounds of — no, that would be telling…)_ But in 2018 Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill appeared in a _Star Wars_ -themed video titled “[The Last Dean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IldZGkOA0VI).” (The [2017 video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drl5gD3AzT4) had also paid homage to another Disney franchise…) So for 2020, MIT’s video [returned again to their version of _Star Wars_ universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKHdeNN7-c). _Congratulations to the class of 2024!_ Even America’s National Security Agency got into the Pi Day fun this year, [daring readers on Twitter](https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1238897435600175105) to try to crack the code hidden in this sentence: _“Now, I make a tasty delicious or hidden treat and share messages decrypted through numbering…”_ [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8pKHdeNN7-c/hqdefault.jpg "This is the way...to check your decisions (Pi Day 2020)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pKHdeNN7-c)