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John Solder, regional finalist at the Siemens Competition, explains his work on modifying neurons to be activated by light. The Siemens Regional competitions took place in Johnson on Friday and Saturday.

The women’s lightweight varsity 8 races in the Foot of the Charles Regatta on Saturday. The Engineers finished 32nd out of 43.

On Nov. 11, more than a hundred people gathered at the Building 8 end of the Infinite Corridor to catch a glimpse of MIThenge. MIThenge is a phenomenon that occurs twice a year when the setting sun aligns with the axi...

Marisa B. Fryer ’15 attempts to run through WPI’s defensive line during last Saturday’s New England Women’s Collegiate Rubgy Conference game against WPI. The Engineers entered the NEWCRC playoffs last week as the fift...

Jack D. Clark ’15 holds off a Harvard attacker during MIT Men’s Water Polo opener at the Collegiate Water Polo (CWPA) Northern Division championship. MIT lost a hard-fought battle with Harvard 11-10 in overtime to pla...

Hackers hung a banner on the inside of Lobby 7 commemorating the fifth of November. The Latin is five words beginning with the letter V, meaning, “By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe” —...

Hackers placed a Guy Fawkes mask, worn by the character V from V for Vendetta, over the blank face of the Alchemist statue early Saturday morning. The fifth of November is commemorated in Britain for the failure of th...

Hackers deployed a banner on Tuesday morning over Building 7 marking the end of the so-called “November rule.” The November rule discourages upperclassmen from becoming involved with freshmen beyond friendship or intr...

Lawrence H. Summers ’75 (right) spoke Wednesday evening in Building E51 in a lecture sponsored by the Undergraduate Economics Association. In his talk, titled “Stimulating Growth in the Short and Long Run,” Summers sp...

The largest pumpkin dropped was filled with all sorts of fun!

Oscar Figueroa ’12 “makes science” by mixing water and flour for filling pumpkins.

MIT students walk through shattered pumpkins at the bottom of the Green Building. During Pumpkin Drop on Saturday, residents of EC’s First West dropped 120 pumpkins off the roof of the highest point on campus.

Spectators and participants at Pumpkin Drop walk through the remnants of the dropped pumpkins in front of the Green Building on Saturday evening.

First West Hall Chair Samantha R. Hagerman ’14 prepares to toss a pumpkin over the edge of the Green Building roof.

Pumpkins anticipate their fate along the 1W hallway at East Campus.