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Three judges sample dishes made during the 7-11 Iron Chef Competition, part of the 2015 Bad Ideas Weekend. Teams were given $20 to prepare gourmet meals using only ingredients from a convenience store.

A high schooler works with chemicals and fire at the forensics event at MIT’s first Science Olympiad Invitational on Saturday. More than 50 teams participated, coming from as far as Texas and California.

A high school student tests his plane for the Wright Stuff event.

Student-made models of protein sit in a room where students took a test on protein modeling.

MIT employees and local residents take advantage of the weather on Sunday afternoon by playing soccer in a patch of field dug out from under the snow.

Christopher T. Omahan ’15 (L) and Andrew A. Busse ’15 (R) reach to block a spike during MIT’s exhibition game vs. Fanshaw College this past Thursday. The Engineers lost 3-1.

As part of an effort to consolidate the paperback section, James K. Hobin ’16 re-shelves an armful of books. It is estimated that MITSFS circulates around 46,000 books, not including the 4,000 reserve books which can ...

Two years after a similar undertaking in 2013, the MIT Science Fiction Society (MITSFS) closed this past weekend to perform another phase of reorganization. The overarching goal was to make books easier to find in the...

Yelena Tsitkin ’06, Jennifer Chung ’02, D.W. Rowlands G, and Laura A. McKnight ’15 work together to add custom-sized protective covers to the dust-covers of books before they are shelved. The hardcover books had been ...

Benjamin J. Kaduk PhD ’12 disassembles a bookshelf that was no longer needed.

Monday evening found the reopened library in this state. The now-contiguous paperback section extends off to the right, and the taller-spaced shelves of comics, magazines, and references occupy the area to the left. O...

Alina Y. Rwei G poses in the “Leap of the String” during a rehearsal for the show.

Minerva H. Zhou ’16 jumps during the BTS Medley in Rebirth, held by the MIT Asian Dance Team on Thursday, Dec. 11 in Kresge Little Theatre.

Jacqueline Shen ’18 leads a performance titled “Resurrection.”

Sally Lin ’15 leads a performance of “Stop Girl” by South Korean pop group U-KISS.

Fireworks burst over Boston Harbor during New Year’s celebrations at midnight last Thursday.