Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Title: Glowing plants
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: MIT engineers have been able to induce plants to give off a dim light for nearly four hours. And they believe that, with further optimization, such plants will one day be bright enough to illuminate an entire workspace. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-create-nanobionic-plants-that-glow-1213)

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Title: Happy Thanksgiving
Runtime: 0:20
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Bringing it way back with this nostalgic craft. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Title: Goodbye Fall
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The seasons are a changing around MIT. As the temperature drops and the winds pick up, we say goodbye to fall.

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Title: Meet Boston Jedi
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Meet Boston Jedi, a Boston-based lightsaber stage combat club that meets weekly to practice on MIT's campus. Members of the club, which include MIT students and alumni, use lightsaber props to create visually engaging battle sequences to perform for audiences. Learn more about the club: www.bostonjedi.org

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Title: A new way to mix oil and water
Runtime: 2:34
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A team of researchers in the Varanasi Lab at MIT has developed a way to create nanoscale emulsions, of oil and water, stable enough to last indefinitely, and with no mixing required. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-way-mix-oil-and-water-1108)

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Title: Neutron stars collide
Runtime: 0:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves – ripples in space-time – in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitational waves and light. Learn more about this discovery: http://news.mit.edu/2017/ligo-virgo-first-detection-gravitational-waves-colliding-neutron-stars-1016)

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Nobel Prize in Physics: Rainer Weiss (FULL PRESS CONFERENCE)

Title: Nobel Prize in Physics: Rainer Weiss (FULL PRESS CONFERENCE)
Runtime: 53:37
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, has won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2017. Weiss won half of the prize, with the other half of the award shared by Kip S. Thorne, professor emeritus of theoretical physics at Caltech, and Barry C. Barish, professor emeritus of physics at Caltech.

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Rainer Weiss wins Nobel Prize in physics

Title: Rainer Weiss wins Nobel Prize in physics
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Rainer Weiss, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, has won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2017. Weiss shares the award with Caltech professors emeritus of physics Barry Barish and Kip Thorne. In this video Weiss describes learning of the first detection of gravitational waves.

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Title: The language of color
Runtime: 3:27
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Cognitive scientists from MIT and elsewhere have found that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/analyzing-language-color-0918)

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Title: Blood testing via sound waves
Runtime: 1:52
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from MIT, Duke University, Magee-Women's Research Institute, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has developed a novel way to analyze blood, for signatures of cancer and other diseases, using sound waves. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/blood-testing-sound-waves-tissue-biopsies-0918)

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Title: Self-folding printable structures
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A team of researchers from MIT and Umass Amherst have designed 3-D printed structures that can fold themselves up without any outside stimulus, and the folding begins the instant it is peeled off the printing platform. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/peel-and-go-printable-structures-fold-themselves-0913)

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I'm Peter Hicks, and I've worked at MIT for 47 years

Title: I'm Peter Hicks, and I've worked at MIT for 47 years
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: With over four decades of dedicated service to the Institute, Peter Hicks has the longest tenure within the Department of Facilities. This Labor Day we honor him, and all those who work hard each day to keep MIT running.

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Time-lapse of the partial solar eclipse 2017

Title: Time-lapse of the partial solar eclipse 2017
Runtime: 0:19
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A view of the partial solar eclipse, shot through a Celestron C6 telescope, from MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA.

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Thousands flock to MIT's campus to view the partial solar eclipse

Title: Thousands flock to MIT's campus to view the partial solar eclipse
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On Aug. 21, 2017 several thousand people gathered on MIT's campus to view the partial solar eclipse. Here are some shots from the day including a time-lapse of the eclipse. Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/experiencing-great-american-solar-eclipse-mit-0829

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Tunnel Vision: The Borderline Mural Project at MIT

Title: Tunnel Vision: The Borderline Mural Project at MIT
Runtime: 3:27
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located under the campus of MIT. The interactive portion comes in the form of augmented reality where passersby can use their phone to see secret animations within each mural.

The Borderline Mural Project: http://arts.mit.edu/artists/the-borderline

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President Reif's Charge to 2017 Graduates

Title: President Reif's Charge to 2017 Graduates
Runtime: 17:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Read the charge to the graduates by MIT President L. Rafael Reif for the Institute's 2017 Commencement, held June 9, 2017:
http://news.mit.edu/2017/president-rafael-reifs-charge-class-2017-0609

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Tim Cook's MIT Commencement Address 2017

Title: Tim Cook's MIT Commencement Address 2017
Runtime: 15:34
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the 2017 MIT Commencement Address on June 9, 2017.

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Title: Making Medallions at MIT
Runtime: 3:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Each year, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering gives its graduating students a bronze medallion of the MIT seal. These medallions are entirely prepared, cast, and finished by students in the Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laboratory using the lost-wax/investment casting process. All are welcome, no experience necessary. (Learn more: http://www.technologyreview.com/s/526246/a-labor-of-love/)

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Secrets of the conch shell and its toughness

Title: Secrets of the conch shell and its toughness
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The shells of marine organisms take a beating from impacts due to storms and tides, rocky shores, and sharp-toothed predators. But as recent research has demonstrated, one type of shell stands out above all the others in its toughness: the conch. Now, researchers at MIT have shown that the conch shell’s superior strength can be reproduced in engineered materials. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/conch-shells-better-helmets-body-armor-0526)

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New method removes micropollutants from water

Title: New method removes micropollutants from water
Runtime: 1:57
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to clear pollutants from water, even when present in extremely low concentrations. (Learn more about their novel method: http://news.mit.edu/2017/electrochemical-clear-pollutants-water-0510)

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Title: Snowy Campus
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: January 6, 2017 was a very snowy morning here on campus. Here are a few shots from around the Institute.

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Title: Breezy Spring Morning
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Things are starting to bloom here on campus. Happy Spring!

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OneWorld @ MIT Multicultural Festival and Dance Parties

Title: OneWorld @ MIT Multicultural Festival and Dance Parties
Runtime: 1:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The MIT community came out in full force Saturday, April 29 for a spirited festival celebrating the Institute’s diverse cultures. Early on, a stage show showcased dance, music, poetry and dress from around the world. Later, a crown comprising of MIT students, faculty, staff, and friends got their groove on in four tent dance parties on campus. (Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/oneworld-multicultural-festival-dance-parties-0503)

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Title: System can 3-D print an entire building
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the design of a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-printing-buildings-0426)

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New coating could prevent pipeline clogging

Title: New coating could prevent pipeline clogging
Runtime: 2:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers at MIT have developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the oil spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. (Learn more about this coating method: http://news.mit.edu/2017/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-blowouts-0414)

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Title: Working the angles of North Court
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Spring has sprung but there is still snow on the ground here in Cambridge. Watch this time-lapse of an early spring afternoon in North Court at MIT.

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A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide

Title: A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the effect of raindrops falling on dry soil laden with bacteria. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/light-rain-spread-soil-bacteria-0307)

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Title: Building a soft robotic cube
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a soft robotic cube that uses a series of spring-loaded metal tongues to jump, bounce, and roll. In this video, we watch the process of building a cube in just one minute. (Learn more: http://www.csail.mit.edu/soft_robotic_jumping_cube).

In future work, the jumping mechanism will be improved in order to launch the robot higher and farther than is possible with the current design. With some lightweight payloads, such as miniature cameras and other sensors, this robot can be used for various tasks such as search and rescue, surveillance, and exploration.

The Distributed Robotics Lab at CSAIL: http://drl.csail.mit.edu/

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Puppy Love: Welcome to the MIT Puppy Lab

Title: Puppy Love: Welcome to the MIT Puppy Lab
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: IT'S NATIONAL PET DAY 2018!

The MIT Puppy Lab is a student-led, initiative aimed at leveraging the stress-relieving effects of animal interaction. Throughout the year the lab hosts on-campus sessions for puppy petting and playing. The lab also hosts special events and, in partnership with Dog B.O.N.E.S. of Massachusetts, offers special therapy-dog workshops on campus. All dog owners are members of the MIT community who wish to share their dogs to benefit others. (Learn more about the Puppy Lab: http://mitpuppylab.tumblr.com/about)

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Tackling science and technology together

Title: Tackling science and technology together
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: MIT comprises a diverse, international community of nearly 23,500 students, postdocs, faculty, and staff. MIT faculty alone hail from 73 countries — including the seven affected by the presidential executive order of Jan. 27. In this video, five MIT professors reflect on why international collaboration benefits science, engineering, and technology for all. (Read more on MIT News: http://mitsha.re/Xedi308XSQK)

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Title: Fast and forceful gel robots
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent gel robots that can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, and grabbing and releasing a live fish. (Learn more:https://news.mit.edu/2017/transparent-gel-robots-catch-release-fish-0201)

Soft Active Materials Laboratory: http://web.mit.edu/zhaox/www/

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Title: MIThenge
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: At two times during the year, the setting sun aligns with the Infinite Corridor at MIT. In mid November and in late January, when this occurs, and the atmospheric conditions are right, the light emanating from the sun streams down the entire length — 825 feet — of the corridor. This phenomenon is known as MIThenge.

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MIT community responds to executive order on immigration

Title: MIT community responds to executive order on immigration
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: On Sunday, January 29, MIT students, faculty, and staff gathered to support members of the Institute community who are directly affected by President Trump’s Executive Order barring citizens of seven countries from entering the United States. Once organized, the group marched to join the larger protest in Copley Square, Boston.

Read President Reif's letter to the MIT community: http://news.mit.edu/2017/letter-community-update-regarding-executive-order-0130

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One of the strongest lightweight materials known

Title: One of the strongest lightweight materials known
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making it one of the strongest lightweight materials known. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-strongest-lightest-materials-0106)

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Title: A Holiday Chalking
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Happy Holidays from MIT.

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The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors of MIT and bring the Institute to the world through video.

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Movable microplatform floating on droplets

Title: Movable microplatform floating on droplets
Runtime: 1:57
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A new approach to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), developed by a team of researchers at MIT, could offer a new way of making movable parts with no solid connections between the pieces, potentially eliminating a major source of wear and failure. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-droplets-1216)

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Light-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Title: Light-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Runtime: 4:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: *NOTE: This research has made major new strides since 2016. For a more up-to-date version, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4ZdXOSXiI.

Researchers in Li-Huei Tsai's laboratory at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown that disrupted gamma waves in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s disease can be corrected by a unique non-invasive technique using flickering light. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/visual-stimulation-treatment-alzheimer-1207)

Tsai Lab: http://tsailaboratory.mit.edu/

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Title: Study Break
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Imobilare is a b-boy crew at MIT that provides opportunities for students to learn how to breakdance and improve their b-boying skills. Here, two members show us how they breakdance their way toward the end of the semester. (Learn more about Imobilare: http://imobilare.mit.edu/)

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Title: Muscles made of nylon
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: MIT researchers have come up with one of the simplest and lowest-cost systems yet for developing artificial muscles, in which a material reproduces some of the bending motions that natural muscle tissues perform. The key ingredient? Nylon fiber. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nylon-muscle-fibers-1123)

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Title: Ultra-long-term drug delivery
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new drug capsule that remains in the stomach for up to two weeks after being swallowed, gradually releasing its drug payload. This type of drug delivery could potentially assist in eliminating diseases such as malaria. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-capsule-long-term-drug-delivery-malaria-1116)

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Predicting the range of droplet sizes for sticky fluids

Title: Predicting the range of droplet sizes for sticky fluids
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A team of MIT engineers show they can predict a liquid's droplet size distribution, including the likelihood of producing very big and very small droplets, based on one main property: the liquid's viscoelasticity, or stickiness. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/spray-tuning-droplets-sticky-fluids-1110)

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Title: Plant-to-human communication
Runtime: 1:52
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-1031)

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Title: Heat-induced shrinkage
Runtime: 2:27
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Heat is a powerful force that can affect a material in many ways. For example, almost all solid materials when heated, inevitably expand. It is only in very rare instances certain materials do the opposite and actually shrink when heated. It is this class of "metamaterials" a team of engineers are interested in. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heated-1025)

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Bengt Holmström wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (full press conference)

Title: Bengt Holmström wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (full press conference)
Runtime: 28:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Bengt Holmström, an influential MIT economist and long-time faculty member, has been named a winner of the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, for his work on contract theory. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/4HV73051x63)

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Title: Brain Matters
Runtime: 1:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: How do we learn about our environment from the experiences of others? What circuits in the brain prompt us to avoid something bad, or drive us toward something good? Stephen A. Allsop PhD ’16, a student in the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD Program, studies social cognition and aims to answer these questions. (Learn more about Stephen and others at MIT who are working to build a better world: http://mitsha.re/N8vx304XsiU)

Title: Furry Wetsuits
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Inspired by hairy, semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and sea otters, a group of MIT engineers are fabricating fur-like rubbery pelts learn how these mammals stay warm and even dry while diving underwater. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/beaver-inspired-wetsuits-surfers-1005)

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CarbonCounter: Online app allows consumers to research low-emissions vehicles

Title: CarbonCounter: Online app allows consumers to research low-emissions vehicles
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A group of MIT researchers took a detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models and found those emitting less carbon are the least expensive to drive overall. Their CarbonCounter app allows you to look up emissions rates for your vehicle or one you are considering buying or leasing. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/oUM1304C6iZ)

Visit their online app: http://carboncounter.com/

For more information: http://pubs.acs.org.libproxy.mit.edu/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.6b00177

Video produced and edited by: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional transportation footage: Pond5
Music sampled from, "Warm of Mechanical Heart," by Kai Engel
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Ingegneria Classica (Classical Engineering)

Title: Ingegneria Classica (Classical Engineering)
Runtime: 5:16
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Roman Empire was the high-tech hub of its day. In the summer of 2016, students from MIT went on a field trip to understand why — and to put that knowledge to work on the future.

MIT Monkey Ballers build a plane for Red Bull Flugtag 2016

Title: MIT Monkey Ballers build a plane for Red Bull Flugtag 2016
Runtime: 6:34
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Red Bull Flugtag is an annual event in which competitors attempt to fly a homemade aircraft off a platform 33 feet in the air. This year, Flugtag came to Boston and the MIT Monkey Ballers entered the competition.

Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT

Additional time-lapse footage: MIT Monkey Ballers
Music sampled from, "Origin I," by Scott Holmes
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Seeing the unseen: Thank you to those who keep MIT running

Title: Seeing the unseen: Thank you to those who keep MIT running
Runtime: 5:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The MIT Department of Facilities supports the Institute 24/7. Thank you to everyone who works to keep MIT running smoothly.

Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT

Campus blueprints: Branden M. Etheridge
Killian Court rendering: Branden M. Etheridge
Music sampled from, "Even when we fall" and, "The Scent of Cedars" by Philipp Weigl
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