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The haughty Major Sergius (Vladimir Sobes ’11) is waited upon by house servant Nicola (Yuri Podpaly G) at the Petkoff house during the MIT Dramashop performance of Arms and The Man.

Workers from Cadwell Sign Co. lift a plaque into place in Lobby 7 on Tuesday. A gift of the Class of 2003, the plaque is mounted on the east wall, just right of the Infinite Corridor entrance.

Michael Ouellette poses on the set of his last production at MIT. Arms and the Man was the first play he directed at MIT over 20 years ago, and will have its final run tonight at 8 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre.

Left: Beef is cooked over the pit at Steer Roast on Friday. The lighting of the pit (by tradition with a flaming ball of toilet paper) marks the beginning of Steer Roast, Senior House’s annual weekend long party with ...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood speaks on the dangers of distracted driving in the Media Lab on Monday. LaHood challenged MIT students to develop new technologies and media strategies to combat the increas...

Below: Joseph E. Lemberg ’11 and Aaron N. Flores ’12 mud wrestle during Steer Roast on Saturday. Steer Roast, an annual weekend-long event hosted by Senior House, features meat and performances by a number of bands, i...

To complete his last performance with the MIT Chorallaries, Michael R. Blaisse ’10 sings his first solo, “Papercut,” with the group at their annual Spring Concert on Friday. He is joined by current members and alumni ...

Students watch as a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft departs Briggs Field during a brief rain squall on Monday, May 3. The Osprey, operated by the Marines of VMM-264, Air Station New River North Carolina, arrived at MI...

Students and visitors examine the pieces available at the MIT Glass Lab’s annual Mother’s Day sale yesterday afternoon. The sale is primarily staffed by students and staff of the Glass Lab, many of whom have pieces av...

Artist and architect Otto L. Ng G stands in front of MURAL ORIGAMI, his winning entry in the 2010 MIT Student Mural Competition, in Stata on Monday. The mural consists of a photograph of a person walking on the sidewa...

Sean D. Fannin ’13 and Jordan Lyday dive and struggle against their bungee-cord harnesses to get their velco marker further along the centerline at the Greek Week(end) 2010 carnival held by Panhel/IFC on Kresge lawn o...

Richard S. Yau ’10 performs his Senior Singout, a dramatic rendition of Mulan’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You,” with the MIT/Wellesley Toons at the Toons’ 20th Anniversary Concert Saturday evening in 10-250.

Students eagerly explore the insides of a MV-22 Osprey. The tilt-rotor helicopter landed on Briggs Field and visited other Boston landmarks on Monday as part of Marine Week Boston.

Sam Franklin of “Mamarazzi” plays on Saturday at Steer Roast 2010. Mamarazzi was one of eleven bands that performed at Steer Roast.

Ben Huh, CEO of Pet Holding, Inc., talks about the emergence of internet memes like “lolcats” and “Rickrolling” during a talk sponsored by the MIT Sloan Innovation club on Thursday in E51. He explained how he has crea...

Dustin Brackney of Apex Green Roofs shows sedum cuttings that are being planted on the new green roof on the new Sloan building, E62. Sedum, also known as stonecrop, is a large genus of popular garden plants.The 7,000...