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Much to the delight of East Campus residents, the promise of a horse riding event during last weekend’s Bad Ideas Competition was not, in fact, a joke. Dominika Nawrot is seen here riding a horse in McDermott Court on...

Members of the MIT Sailing Team (sail 3) exit a turn behind Boston College (sail 13) during the Erwin Schell Trophy on Nov. 1 on the Charles River. The sailing competition featured 20 collegiate and military teams fro...

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, addresses a packed Kresge Auditorium on April 30 at the inaugural event of The Dalai Lama Center of Ethics and Transformative Values, a venture under MIT’s Office of Re...

James R. Burke ’13 attempts to block mid-court during the Dec. 5 game against Gordon College at Rockwell Cage. The Engineers won 78-73 in overtime.

Cecilia R. Louis ’10 (left foreground) and Mairead F. Daniels ’12 (center foreground) perform with the Chorallaries at the Varsity Vocals International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Northeast Semifinals held M...

Melissa A. Showers ’13 pulls ahead of runners from Brown and Sacred Heart during the Women’s cross country race on Oct. 10. MIT went on to finish 4th out of 49 teams.

Defensive back Corey Garvey ’10 makes a key tackle in the Sept. 19 game against Framingham State at Steinbrenner Stadium.

Reena L. Joubert ‘13 awaits the arrival of President Obama in front of 77 Mass. Ave. on Oct. 23. Hundreds lined Mass. Ave. hoping to catch a glimpse of the President, only for his motorcade to pass along Memorial Dr. ...

Workers began grinding the marble chunk-infused floor of the Media Lab extension’s central atrium on Nov. 2, which is now polished to a glossy finish. The expanse of interconnected airspaces surrounding the atrium nec...

In a stunning performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the MIT Symphony Orchestra teamed up with a talented cast of student actors in Kresge Auditorium on December 5.

MIT Natya members perform Sakti: Women of Power in Little Kresge on Feb. 15.

Carmel R. Dudley ’11 paints a banner reading “No Mandatory Dining / Let Us Choose!” that was hung in Lobby 7 during the Campaign For Students protest on Feb. 17. Students were protesting because of a leaked draft dini...

Nicholas R. LaBounty ’09 looks down for a pass in a game against New England College on Jan. 17, 2009.

Erica N. Pino ’13 drives around a U.S. Coast Guard Academy defender in the first half of the women’s basketball game on December 2. The engineers were defeated 47-38.

While wearing a brassiere over his mouth, Professor of Physics Wolfgang Ketterle, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, gives two thumbs up to the winner of this year’s Ig Nobel Public Health Prize on Oct. ...

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke to graduating students at MIT’s 2009 Commencement exercises on June 5 in Killian Court.