Incoming students were so focused on fulfilling requirements that they had no time to explore their interests—and felt unprepared to declare their majors. Solving the problem became the topic of a class. And in true MIT fashion, students are now testing the most promising solutions.
With the impacts of climate change increasingly hard to ignore, public pressure to address it is mounting. Three MIT graduates are among those helping to shape the debate on how best to go about it.
Engineers have developed a model that can predict oobleck’s wacky behavior.
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