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Even though we’re getting wet feet from stepping in the melted snow puddles, these puddles can be quite beautiful. Here’s a view of Lobby 7 and its reflection in a large clear puddle in front of the Student Center.

Ruobing Lu ’14 performed a traditional Dai dance to the song “Bamboo Wave.” The Dai people are one of several ethnic groups in China. The performance was part of the Taiwanese Students Lunar New Year Festival on Sunda...

WeiYang Sun ’11 dazzles the crowd with his Chinese Yo-Yo skills at the Association of Taiwanese Students Lunar New Year Festival on Sunday, Feb. 6.

Vivian A. Lee ’12 and Cynthia S. Lu ’12 improvised to the song “Singing Song” as part of the Asian Dance Team at the Association of Taiwanese Students Lunar New Year Festival on Sunday, Feb. 6.

Adjacent to the MIT Coop, the courtyard by the Kendall Marriott is being renovated this winter by the owner of 3 Cambridge Center, Boston Properties. The existing plaza will be demolished, new drainage and waterproofi...

Students circumvent puddles as they cross Mass. Ave. It has already snowed 10.4 inches this month.

Nicholas D. Sisler ‘11 (MIT No. 2) plays in the MIT vs. Bruins Alumni game Saturday. The Bruins alumni won 11-9, and the proceeds of the game benefitted the Boston Bruins Foundation and the MIT Men’s Ice Hockey Team.

Robert D. Allen, Sales Manager at Mass Web Printing Co., displays a freshly-printed and folded black ink plate. Each plate contains the pattern for one color of ink for four pages of The Tech.

Dark hallways like this one shed new light on the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel.” This particular hallway located in the basement of Building 10 is noteworthy for this effect because of the relatively low hei...

Workers at Mass Web adjust levers on each color press so ink is fed onto rollers such that each page receives sufficient but not excessive amounts of ink across the span of the printing plate.

A machine adds inserts to the inside of complete, folded papers.

Papers are printed on continuous rolls of newsprint, which are later cut and folded in order.

In order to print full color pages, the paper must pass through four separate presses, with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black layers aligning to produce images.

Workers at the Auburn, MA MassWeb facility oversee the printing of The Tech. See more of how The Tech is made on page 11.

A V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft departs Briggs Field, May 3.