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This week’s issue (No. 9) is now out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/146/9/pdf).

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NEWS
• Ravyn Lenae performs at MIT for SpringFest 2026 (p. 1)

WEATHER
• Cool and unsettled weather for this year’s commencement (p. 2)

CAMPUS LIFE
• Senior Side Notes: On luck (p. 3)
• Frosh Files: What I did with my di**le this year (p. 3)
• I volunteered for a year (p. 8)
• Jojo’s Bizarre Musings: Freshman year: On falling down, again and again (p. 9)

SENIOR REFLECTIONS
• The turning point of my college career (p. 4)
• Getting dumber, in a good way (p. 5)
• On exiting (p. 5)
• Learning what it means to be an “editor” (p. 6)
• Observing the magic (p. 7)
• A special chapter of my life (p. 7)

SCIENCE
• Richard Sutton talks vision for superintelligence in Dertouzos Lecture on May 13 (p. 10)
• Residents of predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods are about four times more likely to get hit by a car while walking or biking in Boston (p. 11)
• Zachary Abel on finding the factorial of 1/2 (p. 12)
• From cell biology to tessellations (p. 13)

SENIOR REFLECTIONS — The Tech’s V146 Senior Editors look back on their experiences in college journalism and say their final farewells to the paper as part of this week’s special Commencement Issue. Swipe to read takeaways from Claire Mao ’26, Alex Tang ’26, Vivian Hir G, Alor Sahoo ’26, Sabine Chu ’26, and Geoffrey Enwere ’26.

Click on the link in ’s bio to learn more.

Photos courtesy of Levy Le ’29.

Last week’s issue (No. 7) has been out for distribution across campus and on The Tech website (https://thetech.com/issues/146/7/pdf).

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NEWS
• Green Building Tetris hack returns after 10 years (p. 1, 3)
• MIT Spokes will bike 75 days to teach in rural towns (p. 1, 3)
• MIT List Visual Arts Center celebrates 40 years (p. 1, 2)
• BRIEF: MIT announces Co-op Planning Committee (p. 2)
• BRIEF: New Kendall/MIT station entrance opens (p. 3)
• 1,016 admitted students attend CPW 2026 (p. 12)

WEATHER
• Cool and rainy weekend before nice weather returns next week (p. 2)

CAMPUS LIFE
• An ode to the SAB (p. 4)
• For the love of the game (p. 5)
• Call a boomer (p. 6)
• An unrigorous investigation into food chain consistency (p. 6)

ARTS
• Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe presents ‘London Falling’ at WBUR CitySpace (p. 7)
• Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad on ‘Normal’ (p. 8)
• A collage of Baroque dances and celebrations (p. 8)

SCIENCE
• A brighter future for the people of Africa: MIT Africa Innovate Conference pushes new plans for uplifting the African continent (p. 9)
• Sleeping cancer cells hijack the wound healing pathway to wake up (p. 10)