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This year’s Mystery Hunt, organized by the team Beginner’s Luck, began with a silent skit accompanied by an MP3 file which the Hunt participants were instructed to listen to on Friday, Jan. 15.

xkcd author Randall Munroe speaks to an audience in 26-100. The web comic artist visited on December 17 to answer questions and sign copies of his new book.

The gentlemen and schoolgirls of Titipu accompany Nanki-Poo (in black, right), a traveling minstrel, in song.

Dana G. Mead PhD ’67 will retire as Chairman of the MIT Corporation this June. Mead, seen speaking at an Undergraduate Association Senate meeting in 2008, has been Chairman since 2003.

Guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore shreds on one of his many Fender Jazzmasters. Throughout the show Moore switched guitars to cover all the alternate tunings required for the Sonic Youth repertoire.

The first few fans get the full Girl Talk experience on the stage at the House of Blues on Nov. 2.

No Mac, no worries. Operating system is irrelevant to the sold-out crowd at the Girl Talk concert on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

A few fans look on as Girl Talk makes a live mix on his two laptops on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

Clothing optional: Girl Talk claps above the crowd as they cheer him on at the House of Blues on Nov. 2.

Confetti and sweat don’t shift Girl Talk’s focus from the live mixing during his concert on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

Girl Talk’s curtain call ends the night’s insanity too soon for his fans. The concert took place on Nov. 2 at the House of Blues.

Bike locks left behind after bicycles were removed from under Bldg. 9 in preparation for Obama’s visit.

Timothy R. Schoen ’11 of Kappa Sigma (right), the newly elected Interfraternity Council president, and Clark D. Minor ’12 of Phi Kappa Sigma (left), the newly elected vice president, pose outside of the IFC office on ...

Students sit atop a plinth in the corner of Lobby 7 as pedestrians walk past on Nov. 5. The Class of ’54 will be holding a student contest for designs to sit atop the pedestals, which were left unfinished after Lobby ...