Greg Steinbrecher

Tens of thousands of counter-protesters gathered on Boston Common on Saturday in response to a scheduled "Boston Free Speech" rally.

A taxi driver crashed into a light pole in front of Building 34 on Saturday afternoon. The driver told a Cambridge Police officer (pictured) that he swerved to avoid a head-on collision when a car, travelling in the o...

Lorna Feijóo and Yury Yanowsky perform the world premiere of Viktor Plotnikov’s “Swan.”

Misa Kuranaga holds a pose during her performance as the female half of Marius Peptia’s “Don Quixote Pas de deux.”

Dancers perform an excerpt from Christopher Bruce’s “Rooster,” which is set to the Rolling Stones songs “Paint it Black,” “Play With Fire,” and “Sympathy for the Devil.”

Painted entirely gold for his performance, Avetik Karapetyan performs Florence Clerc’s Golden Idol variation of Marius Pepita’s La Bayadère. Boston Ballet school students filled the supporting roles.

Thousands of fireworks attendees stream across the footbridge overlooking Storrow Drive, making their way from the Hatch Shell and Esplanade back into Boston.

Dusk falls over the Boston Pops during their annual Fourth of July concert. The Pops perform annually at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, playing music ranging from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture to a Boston-themed vers...

As seen from the bank of the Esplanade near the Hatch Shell, fireworks explode over the Charles River.

A mother and daughter dance during the Boston Pops concert. The Pops performed with a number of artists; this year, only artists with ties to Boston were selected.

MIT Police Sergeant Cheryl Vossmer cheers as a couple swing dances during the Boston Pops concert. Several other onlookers, including the flag-waver, sport “Collier Strong” shirts.

The Anime Club has an extensive library on the fourth floor of the Student Center.

Residents of Next House left hand prints across a poster thanking the MIT Police Saturday night. Residents also wrote individual cards which were then delivered.

Residents of East Campus’ Fifth East provided a donations bin during their party Saturday night. Proceeds went to the Jimmy Fund, of which Officer Collier was a longtime supporter.

The Green Building at MIT was lit with a ribbon in the colors of the Boston Marathon on the night of April 20 in tribute to victims of the bombing.

Students in Simmons Hall printed a gigantic MIT Police badge across hundreds of pieces of 8.5”x11” paper. The sheets were assembled and hung in Simmons Dining.

On Friday night, an MIT student punched a hole in a Baker House stairwell window. According to MIT Police Sergeant Amoroso, the individual was transported to Cambridge Hospital and no charges were filed, with further ...

SaveTFP held a stress-relieving dog-petting study break in W20-407 yesterday. Dozens of students attended and pampered the six dogs.

A close up view of board number 121. Of note is the antenna at the top of the image; each pixel is independently controlled via wireless link. The larger black IC is a PIC24FJ32GA — an inexpensive micro controller sim...

The status LED on this pixel glows green, indicating its readiness to turn on at the figurative flip of a switch. Each pixel features a button labeled “sleep” which, according to an e-mail sent to the EAPS department,...

Under the protective plexiglass cover, each device features 13 LEDs. Each pixel has a ridged plastic cover to direct the light up toward the window rather than back into the room.

Each pixel in the display featured the phrase “WHO did this?” printed on the corner of the circuit board.

Hackers installed a 40-foot-long Nyan Cat and rainbow trail in Lobby 7 last week. A popular internet meme, Nyan Cat is a flying cat with a Pop-Tart body that leaves behind a rainbow trail, whose journey is frequently ...

Professor Alex H. Slocum ’82 was just as excited as the graduates.

On June 3, 983 undergraduates and 1,471 graduate students received their degrees.

A stuffed Pikachu is visible on one graduate’s mortarboard. Other creative designs included a graduated cylinder and flags of different nations.

President Susan J. Hockfield prepares to give her charge to the graduates.

Some students displayed symbols representing their major on their mortarboards.

The class of 2011 was MIT’s 145th graduating class, which coincides with MIT’s 150th year. The discrepancy was caused because the Civil War delayed the start of classes.

A crowd mostly composed of college students gathered at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common late Sunday evening to celebrate the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Two days ago, President Barack Obama announced th...

Alchemist was fitted with a shirt promoting the annual “Dance ’Till You Drop” party held by the Burton Third Bombers. Previous years’ hacks to promote DTYD have included the shadow of the Bomber airplane inside the Bl...

In conjunction with a flood of hacks, a desk appeared atop the pyramid on Building 1.

A model of the Caltech Cannon, which hackers “borrowed” from our friends on the West Coast five years ago, appeared on the ledge below the Great Dome in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

A fan plays Duckhunt in the classics video game room at PAX East.

A female cosplayer dressed as Yuna from Final Fantasy X poses for a photo.

Some of the best arcade game players in the world try to set records at PAX East.

A Metroid fan dressed as Samus Aran plays Rockband with other attendees. There were several Rockband stations set up around the PAX East convention.

The Tech’s Jessica J. Pourian ’13 interviews “Thorkon,” the creator of a case mod who is dressed as Boo.

A case mod of Divx, a character in Penny Arcade, was featured holding a bottle of Wild Turkey.

An attendee plays Dance Central, a Kinect game by Harmonix.

Tabletop gamers filled an exhibition hall during last weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo. Games ranged from Katamari Damacy to Jenga.

A cosplayer dresses up as Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft.

Fariborz Maseeh ScD ’90 contributed $24 million to complete the construction in W1, which had stalled for lack of funds. Maseeh Hall is scheduled to open in fall of 2011 and will help expand MIT’s student population.

Man-Yan Lam ’11 guides the Women’s crew team, Oct. 24.

Hackers installed a red backlight and the shadow of a phoenix behind the clock adorning Maseeh Hall’s west tower. This fall, the Phoenix Group will help populate Maseeh Hall. Barely visible in daylight, the hack was o...

A banner announcing Bad Ideas appeared in Lobby 7 Saturday morning. The annual IAP competition celebrates unwise and misguided plans and contraptions.

Entitled “Alchemist”, the sculpture is composed of mathematical symbols in the shape of a human.

Man-Yan Lam ’11 guides the MIT women’s lightweight team down the Charles during the Head of the Charles regatta on Sunday. “Every time we passed under a bridge, there would be spectators yelling encouraging words to m...

After several days of on-and-off service, the Burton-side elevator in Burton-Conner House broke down Saturday night, trapping students inside. The Cambridge fire department managed to free them within 20 minutes.

Professor of Applied Physics Harry A. Atwater of the California Institute of Technology speaks about solar cell technology at Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT on Thursday. Now in its tenth y...

The Cambridge Fire Department responds to a chemical spill in 18-006 on Thursday evening. Building 18, the chemistry building, was designed by I.M. Pei and constructed in the 1960s.

Ben Thompson ’13 (left) and another protester explain why they are protesting Pfc. Bradley Manning’s imprisonment and impending court marshal to a group of freshmen. Thompson and about 15 others were demonstrating out...

Fariborz Maseeh ScD ’90 contributed $24 million to complete the construction in W1, which had stalled for lack of funds. Maseeh Hall is scheduled to open in fall of 2011 and will help expand MIT’s student population.

Michael Lo ’12 of hits a pike during MIT bboy crew Imobilare’s cypher at Tuesday night’s orientation event. Imobilare’s performance was part of a series of short exhibitions by MIT dance groups. The event, which showc...

Yan Zhu ’12 asked Lady Gaga to sign her MIT ID card when Gaga visited the MIT Museum on Wednesday June 30. Gaga spent a couple minutes signing autographs for fans on her departure at approximately 3 p.m.

Students and visitors examine the pieces available at the MIT Glass Lab’s annual Mother’s Day sale yesterday afternoon. The sale is primarily staffed by students and staff of the Glass Lab, many of whom have pieces av...

Los Campesinos! perform “Romance is Boring” from their album by the same name at the Paradise Lounge on Sunday night. Originally scheduled for Saturday night, the show was postponed because of travel problems caused b...

A mix of students and Boston locals rock out to Super Mash Bros.’ mixes at the Spring Weekend concert on Friday. The crowd particularly enjoyed the mashups that the group produced live.

Ethan Dawes of Super Mash Bros. mixes beats on his laptop during their performance at the Spring Weekend concert, where Super Mash Bros. opened for N.E.R.D. Dawes later ran around the stage with a video camera documen...

N.E.R.D frontman Pharrell Williams spits rhymes at the Spring Weekend concert. In between songs, Williams engaged the crowd by telling them that they are going to change the future and by emphasizing that brains, not ...

MIT students took a study break to watch N.E.R.D perform live on Friday evening in the Johnson Ice Rink for the Spring Weekend concert. N.E.R.D played a mix of their older songs and songs from their upcoming album, No...

Allin D. Resposo ’11 hangs out with Super Mash Bros after winning the Spring Weekend Mashup Competition. Students submitted mashups for student voting, and Super Mash Bros. selected a winner from the top three to play...

(left to right) Marie C. Mcgraw ’12, Emma C. Jeffries ’11, and Catey L. Harwell ’11 of the women’s lightweight crew team race early Sunday morning against Stanford. The Engineers lost both varsity races to the No. 2 r...

Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed a bottle of “MIT Edition” Axe body spray on the ledge of Building 10. The hack was apparently a comment on the recently passed Undergraduate Associate Senate bill to provide ...

Smell you later: Personal hygiene supplies will be placed in the reading rooms from the last day of classes to the last day of finals, as mandated by a new bill passed by the Undergraduate Association Senate on Monday.

The candidates for UA president and vice president participate in a debate in the student center on Sunday. Electronic voting will begin next Tuesday and end next Thursday; paper balloting will occur next Friday. For ...

(Top row, L to R) Ariel A. Torres ’11, Vrajesh Y. Modi ‘11, and Ian P. Tracy ’11 will be running for the position of Undergraduate Association President. Their running mates are (bottom row, L to R): Jarrett R. Remsbe...

(Write-in)President:Ariel A. Torres ’11Major:CMS and 6 joint majorLiving Group:New HouseAffiliation:NoneHometown:Chandler, AZ (Write-in)Vice President:Jarrett R. Remsberg ’11Major:10-B and 7a double majorLiving Group:...

President:Vrajesh Y. Modi ’11Major:2 and 15 dual degreeLiving Group:East CampusAffiliation:NoneHometown:Cranbury, NJ Vice President:Samantha G. Wyman ’11Major:10-C and 18 double majorLiving Group:Burton Conner HouseAf...

President:Ian P. Tracy ’11Major:2 and 16 double majorLiving Group:Simmons HallAffiliation:NoneHometown:Fort Leavenworth, KA Vice President:Pall M. Kommayer ’11Major:2 with a 24 minorLiving Group:Sigma ChiAffiliation:S...

Vrajesh Modi ’11 and Samantha Wyman ’11 are currently the only pair running for the positions of Undergraduate Association President and Vice President. Both currently represent their living groups as senators. The de...

A Cambridge Bomb Squad officer attempts to disable a device placed on Kresge Field on the morning of April 24. The device was, in fact, a cherry-bomb-shaped concrete block advertising for the weekend’s annual “Dance ‘...

MIT Students for Israel (MITSI) hosted Danielle Blumenstyk and Noa Ouziel on Oct. 7 for an educational discussion on the experience of women in the Israeli Defense Forces. Blumenstyk and Ouziel are representatives of ...

Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley performs at a concert in the East Campus courtyard on Sunday afternoon.

Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed seven notes on the great dome’s temporary scaffolding, commenting on its close resemblance to a musical score. The notes were the first seven of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Gi...

A Cambridge Bomb Squad officer attempts to disable a device placed on Kresge Field on the morning of April 24. The device was, in fact, a cherry-bomb-shaped concrete block advertising for this weekend’s annual DTYD pa...

The bomb-shaped concrete block advertising DTYD, showing damage from an attempted detonation by the Cambridge Bomb Squad.

A Cambridge Bomb Squad officer attempts to disable a device placed on Kresge Field on the morning of April 24. The device was, in fact, a cherry-bomb-shaped concrete block advertising for this weekend’s annual DTYD pa...