MIT Mock Trial advances to National Championship for the first time
MIT Mock Trial earned its first-ever bid to the National Championship Tournament in its 11-year history, finishing among the top 6% of teams nationwide.
Gunman fires nearly 60 rounds into traffic on Memorial Drive
The gunman was previously involved in a 2020 shooting with police officers in South End and was released from prison.
A beautiful weekend and very warm week ahead
This will all change on Saturday, as a high-pressure system will move in and bring nicer weather along the way; the sun will be out and temperatures will climb into the mid 70s. Sunday will be even warmer, topping out in the 80s.
BREAKING: MIT Canvas goes down after cybercrime group breaches Instructure
Shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 7, MIT students lost access to Canvas, the platform that hosts instructional material for nearly all courses, following a breach of the website’s parent company Instructure by cybercrime group ShinyHunters.
Why MIT needs to gradually and responsibly train its future doctors in the AI era
The Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Program must ensure that technical AI literacy doesn’t come at the expense of student mental health.
Award-winning author Celeste Ng discusses ‘Everything I Never Told You’ at MIT
On April 28, award-winning author Celeste Ng discussed her debut novel, ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ at an MIT Libraries community event titled “Hidden Truths & Human Ties.”
From non-runner to marathon runner
When people ask me when I started running, they are often surprised to learn that I began during my freshman year at MIT.
Why MIT should preserve the tutorial style in humanities classes
Silence feels different in a room containing only three students. It no longer becomes the anonymous silence of a lecture hall, but rather, a palpable, almost physical silence.
Is life an optimization problem?
There’s a version of regret that curdles into something less useful: a grief for a past that can’t be changed and a hypothetical present that will never exist. I’ve felt that version lately, and I’ve been trying to find my way out of it.
The Marble Center celebrates its 10th anniversary, showcases success stories behind translating experiments to clinical products
Founded in 2016, the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine is a collective of faculty research labs that aims to advance cancer nanomedicine, a field that seeks to detect, treat, and monitor cancer progression through biomaterials only a few water molecules in size.
From MIT to Veritasium
Leah “Sulli” Yost ’22 uses her MIT education to make videos for one of the world’s leading science YouTube channels.