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Family weekend starts today. Welcome parents! Check out the full schedule of events at http://parents.mit.edu.
Quarter 2 PE registration is now open! Go to http://mitpe.com/ to sign up for a class. The deadline is Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
The Student Center will soon require MIT IDs for access from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. every night. Look out for the changes this month!
The U.S. Supreme Court heard Fisher v. University of Texas yesterday. The case concerns the role of affirmative action in college admissions; in August, MIT filed an amicus brief supporting the use of race as a factor in a holistic admissions process.
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