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Sky Ferreira performed Saturday afternoon at Boston Calling, held in City Hall Plaza.

Concertgoers rocked to Nas at the 2014 Boston Calling music festival on Sunday night.

Following a delay for severe weather, Lorde played a shortened fifty minute set on Saturday evening.

Joanna K. Chen ‘15 receives some bike repair tips from Armando Quiros of Bike Boom in Davis Square during Bike Fest this past Sunday. The event, sponsored by MIT PN2K and GSC Sustainability, was an opportunity for mem...

Jake Ohlbaum and Harry Price, members of the Black Moons, perform on the steps of the Student Center on Thursday. The event was part of the Coffeehouse Lounge program, a weekly concert series.

On Aug. 29, MIT Clubs put on their annual midway/club fair to introduce freshmen to the multitude of clubs on campus.

Adisa Kruayatidee ‘16 breakdances with Imobilare, one of MIT’s many dance groups, during the Activities Midway this past Friday in the Johnson Ice Rink. The Activities Midway is the main opportunity for student groups...

Residents of Next House created an 18’ trebuchet, a type of catapult, to compete in this year’s Water Wars, a REX event on Tuesday.

Students of Next House building an Inception-inspired 9’ diameter rotating room, which was unveiled during REX.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif, along with Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88, and members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last Friday. Reif w...

Students rode the Scourge of the East, a Viking-themed pendulum swing built by residents of East Campus for the East Side Party, a Residence Exploration (REX) event, on Sunday night. The East Side Party featured a thr...

The supermoon on the night of Aug. 10, and the largest full moon of the year. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth. The next supermoon is on Sept. 8.

East Campus’s roller coaster under construction for this weekend’s REX.

Freshmen Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOP) started this week. Here, members of the Class of 2018 created their own putty and learned about biomaterials and polymers at the Department of Material Science and Engineering.

Google staff demonstrated Google Glass to invited guests and press at the unveiling of Google’s expanded campus in Kendall Square on Tuesday, Aug. 5. The new construction took two years to complete after a controversi...

An aerial view of the East Campus/Kendall Square area that is the subject of the proposal Provost Martin Schmidt sent to the MIT community on July 14, 2014, which calls for new buildings for commercial, retail, and ac...