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Full Tilt: Kathryn "Kat" Vollinger '10, top, scales the Rec Center's "bouldering wall," a popular spot for climbers since it was installed in 2005. Below, Juggling Club members Lauren Lazarus '09, left, and Jonathan "J.B." Brown '11 practice passing clubs while president Patrick Nearing '08, right, simultaneously juggles clubs and balances one on his chin. At their weekly practices, members pass clubs in patterns that can get so complex that mathematical notation is needed to write them down. "It's not a huge coincidence that most of our jugglers are majoring in physics, math or engineering," says Nearing, a civil engineering major. Brown says the key to juggling is to relax, and the easiest way to stay relaxed is to "come to terms with the fact that you're going to drop something now and then."