Will Curran '17

The robot, carried by its specially fabricated wheels, drives against the unrelenting mountain, struggling to climb.  A T-shaped robotic arm swings down using gears to carefully lower it into position.  The team manipulating its controls, the robot triggers switches on the side of the mountain to gain points.  In the hectic last 30 seconds, the robot swiftly maneuvers its arm...

Potatoes. For 551 sols, approximately 565 days, this was Mark Watney's diet. After being stranded by his crew on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, must survive by engineering his food supply and communications with Earth to stay alive. All the while, on Earth, NASA scrambles to find solutions to bring the marooned astronaut home. My own interest in...