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A pedestrian on skis takes advantage of the unshoveled sidewalk by the Charles River Saturday.

At the MIT-Harvard snowball fight held outside the Cambridge Public Library on Sunday, Harvard students prepare to launch an attack.

Saferide and Tech Shuttle buses sit idle on Saturday in their parking lot off Albany St. With the Institute shut down during the blizzard, normal shuttle routes were canceled through the weekend.

Lindsay M. Sanneman ’14 and Omar A. Trujillo ’15 use a slingshot to throw snowballs during the Institute-wide snowball fight.

The blowing snow makes visibility poor in front of the Student Center on Friday and Saturday.

On Feb. 9 starting at 4:05 p.m., crowds gathered in the snow-filled Killian Court for an MIT-wide snowball fight, organized by Brendan T. Deveney ’13 and Amanda C. David ’13 of the UA Special Projects Committee.

On Saturday afternoon, pedestrians walked among slow-moving motorists down Massachusetts Avenue in Boston since in many places, streets were more clear than the sidewalks.

MIT Musical Theatre Guild’s production of The Rocky Horror Show plays this weekend in La Sala de Puerto Rico. The show follows a newly engaged couple on a road-trip gone awry. They encounter a transvestite mad scienti...

Installations from the Martin Luther King Jr. Design Seminar (17.920) class, held during IAP, are up in Lobby 10. The class focused on topics such as civil rights, race, and identity. The installation will conclude on...

Members of Techiya, MIT’s Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli a cappella group, hold a community singing event outside LaVerde’s on Tuesday evening. Passers-by were invited to pick up music and sing along.

Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman demonstrates that Latkes are a better fuel than Hamentaschens by lighting one on fire at the annual Latke Hamentaschen Debate held in 10-250 on Feb. 6.

Foilist Alexander E. Siy ’13 makes an attack during a bout at the Eric Sollee Invitational on Sunday, Feb 3.

The reading room was recently reopened to students as a 24/7 study area. Along with the skylight, new efficient lighting systems were installed, as well as new paint that restores the reading room to its original colors.

Two robots compete on the playing field. Robots could score points by performing various activities on the field.

A student fixes a part on his team’s robot.

Three teammates examine their robot during the competition.