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Andreas Mershin of the MIT Flying Club took Tech photographers Ricardo Ramirez ’09 and Eric D. Schmiedl ’09 up for an aerial photo shoot of the MIT campus on April 26, 2008. For more photos, see page 8.

Dorm row viewed from 1,500 feet up in a Cessna C172.

Boston’s Back Bay area and downtown as seen from the air.

Members of the flying club prepared for the flyover with a “FLY” message on Briggs Field.

Andreas Mershin of the MIT Flying club preps a Cessna C127 for flight at Sterling Airport in Sterling, Mass.

Killian Court, Building 10, the Great Dome, the Little Dome, Building 3, and Building 4 as seen from the air on April 26, 2008.

Noah S. Jessop ’09, Undergraduate Association President-Elect.

A grand piano, donated to Baker House by the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity for destruction in the annual Piano Drop, slams into a second target piano laying on the ground outside the dorm on Thursday, April 24. The P...

Baker residents prepare to send a grand piano to a smashing demise six stories below in the annual Baker House Piano Drop on Drop Date yesterday.

Marathoners round the corner into Kenmore Square beneath the landmark Citgo sign, less than one mile from the finish line of the 2008 Boston Marathon.

Goodwin Chen ’04 runs bandit in the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 21 wearing a wrestling mask of Mil Mascaras, a Mexican Wrestler.

Brian P. Doyle ’11 eyes the pitch during a doubleheader against Springfield College on Saturday on Briggs Field. MIT lost the first game 16-5, but came back to win 7-2 in the second. The two teams met again on Wednesd...

Professor Lorenz ScD ’48, who passed away Wednesday, April 16, 2008, presents a guest lecture to the Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos (18.353J/12.006J/2.050J) class during Fall of 2005.

Professor Edward N. Lorenz ScD ’48, widely acknowledged as the creator of chaos theory, passed away this past Wednesday, April 16 at the age of 90.

Jicks front man Stephen Malkmus focuses during a guitar solo at Paradise Rock Club on Thursday, April 3.

Prospective freshmen line up to receive liquid nitrogen ice cream sponsored by the second floor of the west parallel of East Campus.