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Residents of Next House created an 18’ trebuchet, a type of catapult, to compete in this year’s Water Wars, a REX event on Tuesday.

Students of Next House building an Inception-inspired 9’ diameter rotating room, which was unveiled during REX.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif, along with Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88, and members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last Friday. Reif w...

Students rode the Scourge of the East, a Viking-themed pendulum swing built by residents of East Campus for the East Side Party, a Residence Exploration (REX) event, on Sunday night. The East Side Party featured a thr...

The supermoon on the night of Aug. 10, and the largest full moon of the year. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth. The next supermoon is on Sept. 8.

East Campus’s roller coaster under construction for this weekend’s REX.

Freshmen Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOP) started this week. Here, members of the Class of 2018 created their own putty and learned about biomaterials and polymers at the Department of Material Science and Engineering.

Google staff demonstrated Google Glass to invited guests and press at the unveiling of Google’s expanded campus in Kendall Square on Tuesday, Aug. 5. The new construction took two years to complete after a controversi...

An aerial view of the East Campus/Kendall Square area that is the subject of the proposal Provost Martin Schmidt sent to the MIT community on July 14, 2014, which calls for new buildings for commercial, retail, and ac...

The proposed plan for Kendall Square as of July 14, 2014, which calls for new buildings for commercial, retail, and academic uses, as well as new graduate student housing.

Padma Lakshmi, host of the television show Top Chef, has a discussion with Professor Linda Griffith and Professor Anantha P. Chandrakasan during a visit to the CGR on Wednesday, June 18. Lakshmi, who suffers from Endo...

Boston’s Fourth of July fireworks as viewed from Cambridge. The show was rescheduled to July 3 due to weather conditions, and was immediately followed by a thunderstorm that sent spectators scurrying for shelter.

MIT’s 148th Commencement was Friday, June 6. Over 2,700 students graduated, receiving over 3,400 degrees. Some students decorated their caps.

A new tree was recently planted outside of W20, filling the arboreal void left when the previous tree was cut down last January.

Diplomas lay stacked and ready to be handed out before the start of the ceremony.

Graduates flip their class rings during the ceremony as a part of MIT tradition.