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Freshmen in the Discover Nuclear Science and Engineering FPOP take a break at Salem Commons in Salem, MA on Aug. 27. DNSE aims to introduce freshmen to the nuclear engineering department through faculty lectures and f...

Students work late on Sunday evening to finish a multiple-storey wooden tower in the East Campus courtyard. Traditionally, East Campus builds a variety of projects for Residence Exploration, which have in the past inc...

East Campus residents make progress on their traditional one-person roller coaster on Tuesday afternoon. The dorm builds many large-scale wooden constructions as part of Residence Exploration (REX) every year.

Senator Ted Kennedy spoke at a rally celebrating Deval Patrick’s win as Massachusetts governor on election night, Nov. 7, 2006. Kennedy passed away Tuesday after battling cancer.

One of the East Campus projects in preparation for this year’s Residence Exploration (REX) was a functional “catbus,” a character from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film My Neighbor Totoro.

David Fiuczynski plays a custom-made double neck guitar, supporting Hiromi Uehara’s performance at Sculler’s Jazz Club on May 23.

Brian Syverud ’10 prepares to make a pass in the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee game against Worchester Polytechnic Institute at Roberts Field on Wednesday night. MIT won 15-12.

Hackers placed a giant statue of the Greek goddess Athena in MIT’s Killian Court on May 18, the first day of final exams. The Athena statue stood atop a large pedestal and carried a shield inscribed with MIT’s “Mens e...

The ensemble looks upon the law of the Fairies during the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ spring 2009 production, “Iolanthe,” on Saturday, May 9 in La Sala de Puerto Rico. From left to right are the Fairy Queen, pla...

Meena L. Viswanath ’11 rides a water-pumping seesaw next to the MIT Chapel on Monday, May 11. The seesaw was a final project for 1.102 (Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design II) that Viswanath’s g...

Master Winchell Woo and Nathan Li from the Shaolin Hung Gar Martial Arts Academy demonstrate using “Qi,” the body’s flow of internal energy, to defend against a spear attack during the “Channeling Qi” event hosted by ...

Fairies open the scene with the song “Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither” during the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ spring 2009 production, “Iolanthe,” on Saturday, May 9 in La Sala de Puerto Rico.

Alejandro F. Arambula ’12, Kevin A. Rustagi ’11, and Thomas M. Cervantes ’11 of the student band The Guitar Knives perform covers and original songs at their debut concert in the Simmons Hall Multipurpose Room on Satu...

Phyllis, played by Kaila Deiorio-Haggar ’11, and Strephon, played by Mark Costello, perform during “Good Morrow, Good Lover” in the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ spring 2009 production, “Iolanthe,” on Saturday, Ma...

An “Ideas To Be Processed” box styled in a fashion similar to the “Domestic and International Mail To Be Processed” box next to it is seen at the intersection of MIT’s Building 3 and the Infinite Corridor on Monday, M...

Flames emerging from the steer-roasting pit mark the beginning of Steer Roast on May 1 hosted by MIT’s Senior House.