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Mimi Yen ’11 sings a moving version of Maria Mena’s “Just Hold Me” at the Chorallaries’ “CSI: MIT” concert this past Saturday evening in 10-250. Through online donations and a raffle, the Chorallaries managed to raise...

Hackers installed a fully functional street lamp atop the Building 1 pyramid on Saturday night.

Aron Kader, from Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil Tour entertains a full house at Comic Relief: A Fundraiser for Pakistan’s Flood Victims on Friday. The event was jointly hosted by MIT’s Pakistani Student Association (Pa...

The MIT iGEM team opens the floor for questions after their presentation on Sunday.iGEM, or the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, is a five-month-long research challenge, which culminated with ...

The new David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is seen on Thursday. Construction on the building is nearly finished, and labs will begin moving in soon.

Douglas Witte shows some children the art of playing the organ at the MIT Chapel after the organ recital on Veteran’s Day. Helen Ward Mannix and Witte both performed, playing pieces such as “Four Versets and a Canzona...

Senior co-captain Michael G. Zomnir ’11 retrieves a ball from the corner during Saturday’s squash match. The Engineers defeated Boston College 7-2.

An apple octopus lounges on a table before the start of judging at Apple Bake, held on Sunday in the Burton-Conner Porter Room. The annual competition attracted nearly 200 entries in categories ranging from apple art ...

Voters leave Kresge Auditorium on Tuesday evening after casting their votes in the midterm elections. Kresge was a Cambridge polling place for Precincts 2 and 3 in Ward 2.

Hackers invaded the Hyatt hotel on west campus this week for part of the Linux Plumbers Conference, an annual gathering of Linux kernel and infrastructure developers. Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open-source Lin...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source Linux operating system, dives into the shark tank at the New England Aquarium on Wednesday night. Torvalds was given a choice between giving a keynote presentation at the...

At the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear”, many people dressed in costumes and held satirical signs. Over 200,000 people attended the event hosted by Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.

Nightmarket visitors gather to watch Chinese Yo-yo performances on Saturday night in Lobdell. Nightmarket is an annual festival held by Asian culture clubs on campus.

SaveTFP’s annual Spooky Skate is all about dressing up and having fun on ice. The event took place on Saturday night at Johnson Ice Rink.

HallowMIT, the annual Halloween festival for MIT’s families, took place on Saturday, October 30 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Stata Center. Activities included pumpkin carving, face painting, balloon twisting, caricatures,...