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Many branches in Killian Court were downed after Tropical Storm Irene tore through Boston and Cambridge late Saturday night and Sunday morning. Five basements on campus were flooded, but MIT made it through mostly uns...

On Sunday, Tropical Storm Irene’s high winds tore a tree branch on the median of Memorial Drive outside of McCormick Hall. Boston recorded gusts as high as 63 mph as Irene made her way across New England.

Zachary A. Weiner, creator of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, takes questions and signs books in a packed 6-120 on Monday.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The 2011 Nissan Leaf hatchback: are we ready to go all-electric?