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The long-awaited Fariborz Maseeh Hall has opened its doors to freshmen and upperclassmen alike.

Left, admissions website after redesign. Right, website before redesign.

Left, admissions website after redesign. Right, website before redesign.

Matt McGann ’00 (left) and Chris Peterson (right), associate admissions director and admissions counselor for web communications, respectively, were driving forces behind the new admissions wiki.

Speakers placed in a plastic dome above the table of the wormhole direct audio to students at MIT from those at Stanford.

Kevin L. Brown ’88 (left) sits in MIT’s Forbes Family Café in Building 32, and demonstrates the new wormhole by talking to Neal Soderquist (right), who is sitting in Stanford University’s Forbes Family Café.

Discover Ocean Engineering participant Jiaming Zeng ’15 modifies her underwater video-taking robot.

Incoming freshmen take advantage of fun opportunities to use high tech, expensive equipment such as laser printers in the Discover Materials Science and Engineering Pre-Orientation program.

Ravi Coltrane, right, performing at Jazzcub Unterfahrt in Munich, Germany. Left, Drew Gress on bass.

Coach Mike Singleton gives the MIT men’s soccer team a talk during an intense early season practice this Thursday.

Jack D. Clark ‘15, Dylan J. Hallman ‘15 and Kyle D. Bowman ‘15 relax after a grueling water polo practice.

The energetic Engineers Women’s Soccer players run down the field at Steinbrenner Stadium during one of their practices.

Here’s a cool picture we took over the summer. Send pictures of your summer experiences to us at photo@tech.mit.edu!

Most freshmen arrived on campus this week to participate in one of about 20 pre-orientation programs. On Wednesday night, close to 100 of these freshmen gathered to play Capture the Flag in the tunnels under and aroun...

Yet another camera (left) was recently added to those monitoring campus from atop the Green Building. The new camera, ensconsced in its dome on the south-east corner of the rooftop, appears to be remotely controllable...