Monica Kahn

Alix Collins prepares cupcakes to be handed out at the Community Fall Break on Killian Court on Sept. 14. Reflecting the event’s theme of sustainability, the cupcakes were baked and served in miniature ice cream cones...

Tim the Beaver gets the crowd excited before the annual Latke-Hamentashen debate, held this year on Wednesday, March 4 in 26-100. The placard on his chest reads “MIT” in Hebrew.

Members of the Muses and St. Louis University’s Bare Naked Statues face off in a beatboxing battle during the Muses’ fall concert on Friday night.

Stephanie E. Oh ’09 and Caroline H. Hunting ’11 belt “Doo Wop (That Thing)” by Lauryn Hill at Resonance’s fall concert on Saturday night.

Joshua M. Karges ’08 of Resonance sings We the Living’s “Best Laid Plans” on Saturday night.

Shanying Cui ’09 belts out Jewel’s “Foolish Games” during the Muses’ fall concert on Friday night.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivers the 2008 Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics in the Bartos Theater on Nov....

Members of Resonance dance along with Joshua M. Karges ’08, who is dressed as a giant tampon, during a skit at the Resonance spring concert in 34-101 on Friday, May 2.

Michael Borohovski ’09 and Amudha Panneerselvam ’10 sing “Gone” by Ben Folds Five at Resonance’s annual spring concert on May 2 in 34-101.

DEAD RISING?—MIT hackers placed “In Case of Zombie Attack” boxes complete with Small Chainsaws in buildings 16 and 46 early last morning. The boxes greeted prospective students touring MIT for Campus Preview Weekend.

Benjamin W. Charrow ’08 wears a “CRYO-FAC” box in reference to East Campus’ Friday Afternoon Club at the 2008 Campus Preview Weekend in Johnson Ice Rink yesterday.

Prospective student Kirsten Hessler drives a tricycle off a ramp at the 2008 Campus Preview Weekend Festival in Johnson Ice Rink.

Prospective freshmen line up to receive liquid nitrogen ice cream sponsored by the second floor of the west parallel of East Campus.

John U. Gardner G, an alum of Season 4 of The CW’s “Beauty and the Geek,” participates in a dating show game with other members of Roadkill Buffet on Feb. 29 in 6-120.

Adam C. Love ’07 and Benjamin M. Park ’10 open the show with the improvisational game ‘Freeze’ during The Jug Show by Roadkill Buffet on Feb. 29 in 6-120.

An electric snowman outside East Campus undergraduate dormitory looks perfectly comfortable during the first substantial snowfall of the winter season Dec. 13, 2007.

Snow falls on the Stata Center during Cambridge’s first significant snowfall of the winter season on Dec. 13, 2007.

A large playing card featuring President Susan Hockfield’s face appeared above the door to her office on Dec. 12, 2007. A note was also left on her office door by the hackers.

A large playing card featuring President Susan Hockfield’s face appeared above the door to her office on Dec. 12, 2007. A note was also left on her office door by the hackers.

Karena K. Tyan ’08 sings “False Alarm,” originally by KT Tunstall, at the Chorallaries’ annual fall concert in 10-250 Saturday.

Cecilia R. Louis ’10 belts out Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” at the Chorallaries’ annual fall concert in 10-250 Saturday.