Scene at MIT: Beautiful, intricate, creative quilts
The MIT Quilt Show, featuring more than 40 quilted projects from 20 members of the MIT community, drew almost 1,000 visitors over three days.
Dream, build, destroy, repeat
Members of the student-run MIT Combat Robotics Club learn through destruction.
Next Haunt: A scary “problem set” in the basement of Next House
For more than a decade, MIT students have turned Next House’s basement into a spooky escape-room style test of puzzles, teamwork, and ingenuity.
MIT student leaders: Q&A with Angeline Peng, a leader in the Addir Fellows Interfaith Dialogue Program
The MIT senior in mathematics convenes and leads regular, small-group interfaith discussions to help other students — and herself — grapple with big questions.
Persistence, teamwork, and some healthy competition
Senior Veronica Calzadilla Sosa has taken the long route toward her MIT degree and found a supportive community along the way.
For students with their sights set on space medicine, a new community takes flight
MIT’s Doctors Without Gravity club connects health and space science enthusiasts.
MIT student team CERBERUZ wins NASA LunaRecycle Centennial Challenge, turning lunar trash into tools
The team took first prize in both the Prototype and Digital Twin tracks for its lunar waste recycling system.
Suzy Nelson transformed student life at MIT
Over the last decade, the vice chancellor has refocused the Institute’s approach to student life to center on student well-being.
MIT student leaders: Q&A with Association of Student Activities president Hana Sousa
The senior in chemical engineering volunteers with the ASA as a way to advocate for students and to strengthen bridges between MIT and its student clubs and groups.
Supporting systems of success
In the MIT class 6.C31 (Hack Yourself) students apply computer science strategies to personal growth goals.
Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry
Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Documenting the tech worker movement
Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.
The next generation’s guide to the new space economy
An industry report published by students in an MIT aerospace entrepreneurship class lays out guidance for aspiring space leaders and investors.
Scattering neutrinos to probe the fundamental laws of the universe
As she became integral to an international particle physics experiment, PhD student Faith Reyes found confidence in herself as a scientist.
FUNdaMENTALs of precision design
Precision, repeatability, and fun are the focus in mechanical engineering course 2.70 (Fundamentals of Precision Product Design).