Erik D. Fogg G mud-wrestles Terral R. Jordan ’07 after the ignition of the roast pit during Senior House’s annual Steer Roast party on May 1.

Electronic band Triangle Forest performs at Senior House during Steer Roast 2009.

Psychedelic rock band Major Stars performs on May 2 during Steer Roast 2009 at Senior House.

Zoig-Ma-Noig performs at Steer Roast 2009 at Senior House.

Housemasters Henry and Cynthia Jenkins kicked off the mud wrestling with their last match as Senior House housemasters, as Henry Jenkins has decided to accept a position at the University of Southern California. Mud wrestling along with the lighting of the steer-roasting pit mark the beginning of MIT’s Senior House Steer Roast party on May 1.

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

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, May 11. The “MIT Visual Arts Program” designation (in the same place as the “MIT Facilities” label on normal mailboxes) suggests the box is an art project.

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 group built.

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 et Manus” logo. Athena is the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, heroic endeavor, and strategic warfare, as well as the name of MIT’s campus-wide computing system.

The Sydney Opera House, one of the world’s most famous examples of modernist architecture, is seen on an Australian winter evening.