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Jorge Valdez
Swinging piñatas fly around Lobby 7 early Wednesday morning. The hack, organized by MITMex, was made to share the Mexican tradition of breaking star-shaped piñatas during Christmastime.
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NEWS EDITOR
Actor and filmmaker Matt Damon will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2016, MIT announced Thursday.
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
December 3, 2015
Part of a larger institutional response to student feedback, MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been collecting data on its students’ workloads since last spring. And the results are starting to take effect behind the scenes.
December 3, 2015
Vo Tien Phong ’16 will spend next year studying physics at Cambridge University as a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship.
December 3, 2015
The fall semester has seen “an unprecedented increase” in the number of people riding scooters or other “wheeled devices” to get around inside buildings on campus, according to MIT Police.
December 3, 2015
MIT’s Office of Sustainability gave a set of recommendations Monday that will help MIT set its long term plan for sustainability on campus; one long-term goal of the plan is to bring new and newly renovated buildings on campus up to the LEED Gold standard.
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Opinion
- A gathering storm in the cloud (12/3/15)
- How eliminating the smartphone has simplified my life (12/3/15; 2 comments)
- GUEST COLUMN: Alcohol abuse, illegal drugs, and misinformation (12/3/15; 6 comments)
- Weather: High pressure to dominate end-of-week weather (12/3/15)
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (11/24/15)
Campus Life
- Rounding up recipes (12/3/15)
- THE FIRST YEAR: When sleep doesn’t come readily (12/3/15)
- MIT APPLICATION ESSAYS THAT WORKED ‘I AM SHAMELESS’ (11/19/15)
- THE FIRST YEAR: Tricks, treats, and defeat (11/12/15)
- THE FIRST YEAR: Saving time and turning back the clock (11/12/15)
Sports
- Semester review: student athletes shine in fall 2015 (12/3/15)
- SPORTS SHORT (12/3/15)
- Taekwondo club snatches 2nd place at Cornell tourney (12/3/15)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (11/24/15)
Arts
- TV REVIEW: The Man in the High Castle (12/3/15)
- BALLET REVIEW: Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker: A sure sign of the holidays (12/3/15)
- MOVIE REVIEW: Trumbo offers a shallow take on Hollywood’s writer’s bloc (11/24/15; 1 comment)
- THEATER REVIEW: An enchanting trip Into the Woods (11/19/15)
- MOVIE REVIEW: Brooklyn holds a mirror up to every college student (11/12/15; 1 comment)