News

Green Building Tetris hack returns after 10 years

If you wandered onto the east side of campus on April 18, you likely saw giant Tetris blocks cascading down the 153 colored windows of the Green Building.

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A view of the Green Building Tetris Hack from across the Charles River on Friday, April 17, 2026. Jojo Placides–The Tech
News

MIT Spokes cyclists bike cross-country to teach in rural America

Now in their 12th year, MIT Spokes plans to embark on a cross-country bike trip from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, stopping along the way to hold STEM workshops for children in rural America.

Opinion

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.

News

New Kendall/MIT station entrance opens

Serving the Red Line toward Central, Harvard, and Alewife, the new headhouse will replace a temporary entrance located under Google’s Cambridge office.

News

MIT announces Co-op Planning Committee

On April 23, an email sent by Provost Anantha Chandrakasan, Chancellor Melissa Nobles, and Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor announced the formation of the MIT Co-op Planning Committee.

News

MIT List Visual Arts Center celebrates 40 years

The List Visual Arts Center, MIT’s contemporary art museum, marked the opening of its 40th anniversary celebrations on Friday, April 10.

News

Amid security concerns, MIT to spend over $3 million on over 500 new surveillance cameras across campus

The project is unrelated to the shooting at Brown University in December and had already been underway at the time, according to a statement from MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen.

News

Students can now use meal swipes at Dean’s Beans in Stata

On April 10, DormCon Dining Chair Eugenie Cha ’28 announced on dormspam that students would be able to use meal swipes to obtain grab-and-go meals at Dean’s Beans in Stata.

meet the minds

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.

Science

A brighter future for the people of Africa: MIT Africa Innovate Conference pushes new plans for uplifting the African continent

Students and industry leaders from across the African diaspora came to MIT for a day of evocative discussions and technology-inspired business proposals for the future of the African continent.

Science

Sleeping cancer cells hijack the wound healing pathway to wake up

New research shows that the awakening of disseminated cancer cells is caused by inflammation in the tissue microenvironment.

Science

MIT animal rights group draws attention, but students question its impact

The people behind the “try our dog cookie” signs have a message, but is it getting through?

Science

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.

Science

Sleeping cancer cells hijack the wound healing pathway to wake up

New research shows that the awakening of disseminated cancer cells is caused by inflammation in the tissue microenvironment.

frosh files

Call a boomer

In this era, the digital divide leaves many people feeling isolated. Matter Neuroscience is a group that aims to increase happiness across all generations; they believe that bridging this gap requires people to talk to and connect with each other.

senior side notes

For the love of the game

The phrase ‘love of the game’ is often employed in the context of sports, used to describe the player who would play for free, who needs no contract to give everything. I think it applies just as well to the games of life.

extra ordinary

An ode to the SAB

At best, the food was mediocre; at worst, each visit brought us one step closer to a disastrous, inevitable food poisoning episode.

alor’s lore

An unrigorous investigation into food chain consistency

Is Blank Street consistent? Alor investigates!

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Exhibit 1: Consistency of portion sizes remains an opportunity for Blank Street Coffee (Source: Some rather jobless individuals). Alor Sahoo–The Tech
Arts

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.”

concert review

A collage of Baroque dances and celebrations

On April 12, the Handel and Haydn Society returned from an unusually long silence with an afternoon of royal pageantry, court dances, and polished playing, but the program’s identity proved more elusive than its execution.

Arts

Bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe presents ‘London Falling’ at WBUR CitySpace

On April 21, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe presented his new true-crime book ‘London Falling’ at WBUR CitySpace in Boston.

Arts

Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kolstad on ‘Normal’

The creatives behind ‘John Wick’ and ‘Nobody’ sit down for an insider look into their newest collaboration.

Opinion

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.

Fighting for fellows: MIT works because we do, too

MIT grads have made it clear — we want equal protections for equal work! Sign our Fellows Petition to show MIT that fellows should be treated the same as RA/TAs!

Open letter on TFUAP’s changes to the science requirement

The reduction of the science breadth requirement could inadvertently disincentivize exploratory learning and interdisciplinary thought.

Campus Life
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This is for ONCE

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Memories in Manhattan

I, too, am dying

Whatever I accumulate, achieve, or protect in this lifetime — regardless of how safe a bank it is in or the insurance I have on it — none of it will come with me when I die. I will leave as I came: with nothing.