The MIT Undergraduate Associate (UA) kicked off 2021 with COVID HACK, a virtual three-day idea generation and pitch session open to all MIT undergraduate students. The goal was simple, but audacious: for teams to develop practical solutions for how to make life and learning at MIT better during the spring term, given the limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As Kofi Blake, MIT senior class president, put it, “One of the hardest things about going to MIT virtually is … that you are going to MIT virtually,” missing out on…