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Talia Weiss ’17 as Wendla in “Mama Who Bore Me.”

Benjamin C. Freed ’17 competes in the steeple chase during the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference championship on Saturday. MIT won the championship for the 15th straight year.

Matthew T. Iovino ’17 as Melchior in “Totally Fucked.”

William R. Ruschel ’18 soars above the jumping pit during the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference championship on Saturday. MIT won the championship for the 15th straight year.

Lupe Fiasco leans back while singing with students at SpringFest 2015.

Salim Akram of Bad Rabbits jams out on the guitar during the opening act.

Team “COME TO PRIMAL” (from left to right: Daniel Dalton ’17, Jake P. Ligouri ’17, Filip Twarowski ’17, and Sean D. Kropp ’17) work with Prof. Mark Drela and one of the pilots to fix their plane prior to the speed mis...

Fredua Boakye of the opening act, Bad Rabbits, sings before a crowd of students.

Team “Egg On”’s plane sits at the starting line of the runway in preparation for the payload mission. For this mission, each plane was given a separate score based on how many hardboiled eggs were intact after a 5-lap...

Team “Give Me Some Shouga”’s aircraft leaves the starting line for its first attempt at the payload mission.

Students cheer as Lupe Fiasco enters the stage during the 2015 Spring Fest concert.

Lupe Fiasco, the main number at Spring Fest 2015, sings to a cheering audience.

Members of the team “Average Joes” (from left to right: Matthew R. Ryback ’17, Eric A. Riehl ’17, Bjarni Kristinsson ’17, and Bradley J. Walcher ’17) look on as their plane completes the payload mission with eight har...

Members of the team “ProCADinators” (Andrew E. Kurtz ’17, left, and Edward J. Lopez ’17) work to repair their plane for the payload mission after a crash led to a break in the fuselage.

Students drop a piano from the roof of Baker House in an annual Drop Date celebration.

A Jurassic Park-themed Lobby 7 hack appeared Sunday morning featuring three velociraptors, a banner proclaiming “When Dinos Ruled MIT”, and a giant pterodactyl with a 15-foot wingspan suspended from the dome.