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Andrew R. Berta ‘16 tries to pop a balloon held in place by Morgan K. Moroi ‘16.

Chess Master Marc Esserman competes in 10 games simultaneously during Sunday’s MIT-Harvard Chess Tournament hosted by the MIT Chess Club.

Kirsten M. Augdahl ‘16 and Anuj Khandelwal ‘17 prepare to pop a captured balloon.

A group of friends help a novice skater at last Friday’s Spooky Skate. The annual event, hosted by SaveTFP, held a costume contest and had snacks for the skaters.

On Saturday night, the annual Pumpkin Drop was held at the Green Building. Hundreds of pumpkins were dropped from the top of the building, and spectators used the pumpkin pieces to have a food fight afterwards.

A member of the MIT Ohms sings during the show.

MIT Bhangra performs a high-energy Punjabi folk dance.

Tuft’s JumboRass dances to a blend of traditional Gujarati garb music and modern beats.

MIT’s Graduate Student Bollywood Dance Team performs at Diwali Night.

MIT Chamak, a female South Asian fusion dance team, kneels in darkness during a set filled with otherwise upbeat moments.

MIT students rehearse for Dramashop One Acts’ play: The Importance of Being Earnest, which will be showing in Little Kresge Thursday through Saturday this week.

A dancer performs the Kaliya Nartana dance, which demonstrated the story of how Lord Krishna conquered the poisonous serpent Kaliya and danced on its head.

Olivia M. Struckman ’18 boxes out an Emerson College defender during MIT’s 3-0 win on Tuesday afternoon.

NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins, as a part of the Compton Lectures series, gave a talk entitled “Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research” on Tuesday in 10-250. Dr. Collins (right), introduced by MIT presi...

Stephen Babineau, dressed as a geisha, conducts the MIT Concert Band during their annual surprise Halloween concert in the Student Center on Tuesday. The band performed the piece “Occident and Orient” by Camille Saint...

Elon Musk discussed Mars colonization this past Friday during the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics’s Centennial Symposium. The one-on-one session with Musk was the highlight of the third day.