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The Petronas Towers at night in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Petronas towers are the tallest twin buildings in the world, standing at 1482.6 feet.

St. Joseph Lighthouse, in Michigan, at sunset

Students register for classes in Johnson Ice Rink on Tuesday. Despite movements toward towards digitization, MIT still uses paper registration forms.

This interactive artwork at the Singapore Night Festival is called the “The World’s Slowest SMS Billboard.” Workers ran around frantically, hoisting and placing human sized cardboard letters onto the front of the five...

The Esplanade is seen from the Harvard Bridge at the end of August. The warm summer evenings were great for runners, walkers and everyone enjoying the spectacular views to and from the Esplanade.

Hexagonal volcanic rocks form the Giant’s Causeway in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

An unusually-decorated car is seen on a New York state highway.

To enjoy the Boston Pops’ July 4th concert and the fireworks, thousands of people gathered on the Cambridge side of the Charles River across from the Esplanade

Three Indonesian street artists, Popo, Bujangan Urban and Rharharha, were brought in from Jakarta to create billboards for the 2010 “Night Festival” in Singapore. In addition to the traditional spray paint, they used ...

Akansha Kumar ’11 (left) and Shubhi Goyal ’12 perform with MIT Chamak, a South Asian fusion dance team, at the ASA Activities Midway last Friday. More than 200 student groups had booths in the Johnson Ice Rink.

Basant V. Sagar ’11, member of the MIT Quidditch team, talks to interested students at the ASA Activities Midway last Friday.

14S-100: Harry plans his next adventure using the Stein Club Map Room’s topographic map collection. The Map Room is also a nice, secluded place to study.

4-332: Harry defiesp physics by levitating a book in the physics library in building 2.

Michael Lo ’12 of hits a pike during MIT bboy crew Imobilare’s cypher at Tuesday night’s orientation event. Imobilare’s performance was part of a series of short exhibitions by MIT dance groups. The event, which showc...

3-310: Instead of a magical slide to keep boys out, the Margaret Cheney room asks for a code to enter. Harry won’t be hanging out here anymore.

E14-6: Harry contemplates anti-Voldemort tactics in the penthouse conference room of the New Media Lab.