Do-It-Yourself IAP 2008
Tap into MIT's January Renewal Ritual
From Singapore to Boston, you can tap into the January renewal ritual of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP). Just connect via this Do-It-Yourself IAP 2008. Learn new life skills, watch MIT World lectures on an emerging field, review an OCW course, or visit campus events virtually. It's all online 24/7. Do it yourself on your own schedule.
Managing Your Life
James Nevins Jr. SM '56, VP of the Class of 1956, leads a speed networking chat at the 2007 Alumni Leadership Conference. Photo: Chris Brown.
Where Morals Come From—And Why It Matters
A neuroscientist, lawyer, and philosopher work through the ancient question of the origins of human morality in a recent campus lecture.
Moral Problems and the Good Life
This OpenCourseWare (OCW) course focuses on matters of social justice, such as euthanasia, gay marriage, racism and racial profiling, free speech, and hunger.
How People Make Decisions
In a short video, Stever Robbins '86 shares points from his Persuasive Communication Workshop delivered at the Alumni Leadership Conference. Learn more about managing people and events.
CrackBerrys: Social Implications of Wireless Email Devices
Sloan Professor Joanne Yates reviews recent research into the human-Blackberry relationship, including usage patterns and how to put your Blackberry in its place.
Feeling Tense?
Download the audio-guided relaxation files in the MIT Medical Multimedia Library and de-stress for a few blissful moments.
Thinking through Elder Care
Find resources for resolving the complex problems of aging well and see how the Age Lab suggests talking to an elder about giving up the car keys.
Considering a Career Change?
Tap the Institute Career Assistance Network (ICAN) to get advice from thousands of MIT alumni. Find jobs via the Alumni Association's Career Services.
Start a Business
The MIT Venture Mentoring Service matches aspiring alumni with skilled volunteers from the corporate, entrepreneurial, and academic communities.
Energy and Environment
Who's Campaigning on Biofuels?
Learn about presidential candidates' calls for better ethanol biofuels, then add your comments to the Technology Review energy discussions.
What GE Thinks about Energy 2.0
Sit in on a recent lecture by GE Chairman/CEO Jeffrey Immelt on the absence of rational energy policies worldwide and GE's burgeoning role in the energy market.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Find out what environmentally friendly products 2.009 students invented, such as a batteryless remote control or view a past hit—Archimedes's Steam Cannon.
Cutting to MIT's Energy Edge
President Susan Hockfield and faculty addressed the energy crisis at the Alumni Association's Technology Day. Get a news update from the MIT Energy Initiative or in articles on Earth systems, energy, and the environment.
Can Geothermal Become a Primary U.S. Energy Source?
Heat mining in Iceland demonstrates geothermal systems' capacity to generate electricity. Find out how underground heat could be tapped worldwide.
Forging the Future of Fusion Energy
Watch the video, Alcator C-Mod and the Plasma Science and Fusion Center to learn about the next generation of fusion reactors.
Hear a Clean Tech Talk on YouTube
The president of EUROSOLAR talks about renewable energy policies at an event co-sponsored by the MIT Club of Northern California's Clean Technology Program.
Students Design Cars of the Future
Watch the summer fun at the Vehicle Design Summit when students worldwide gathered at MIT to build alternative vehicles such as cars running on vegetable oil.
MIT's Global Reach
Susan Hockfield met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during her recent trip to India.
Visualize Cultures
OCW's Visualizing Cultures, focusing on Japan and Asia in the modern world, weds popular images and scholarly commentary in provocative new ways.
Interact with Global Architecture and Planning
Use the School of Architecture and Planning's interactive map, which you can view as a world map or an interest map, to track SA+P projects.
Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?
Is there a stronger moral obligation to a child encountered in the flesh than to a faceless child in a distant place? Author Peter Singer describes the dilemma.
The Dignity of Difference
Sir Jonathan Sacks interweaves philosophy, history, religion, and some rabbinic banter as he calls for a new understanding of religion.
One Laptop per Child: Revolutionizing Learning
Get an update on this enterprise, founded in the Media Lab, that aims to provide multi-purpose teaching tools to a billion+ children in the developing world.
MIT Launches Global Initiatives
A new Translational Health Science and Technology Institute in India will translate research advances into medical innovations. Israel is the ninth country involved in the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative. Find new connections on Global MIT and in International Relations articles.
Track Fieldwork Virtually
In January, you can see data and photos emerging from water projects in Thailand and Honduras. Until then, you can review earlier projects in Ghana, Sri Lanka, and the Virgins Islands.
Just for Fun
Catch a glimpse of Live Anime Action: Madness at Mokuba and how MIT has appeared in anime.
Puzzled by Rubik's Cubes?
An MIT senior shows you his strategy to solve the cube in a short video. Watch more TechTV, such as a glimpse of the MIT Museum Without Walls project and add your favorites to your blog.
Howtoons Inspires Do-It-Yourself Kids
Cartoon kids who build toys and gadgets out of leftover items are the heroes of the just-released, MIT-spawned book called Howtoons.
Make Friends with a Robot
CSAIL roboticist Aaron Edsinger talks about his relationship with the robot Domo or check out Mertz, an active vision head robot developed to explore social learning.
Watch HawkCam and other Top MIT Videos
Video at MIT links to community videos, public lectures, and course lectures. Watch HawkCam, which documented the early lives of red-tailed hatchlings; Collective Intelligence, a talk on evolving intelligent systems such as Wikipedia; or Professor Walter Lewin make physics fun.
Find MIT in Online Social Media
Photographs of MIT—1,207 and counting—are in Flickr's MIT pool. Join the Facebook MIT network to find fellow alumni and online interactions.
Test Your Inner Inventor
Play Brain Drain to test your wits at the Lemelson-MIT Program's Invention Dimension, check out the Inventor's Handbook, or learn about the Inventor of the Week.
MIT Is in Motion on YouTube
Find short, MIT-flavored videos such as MIT Sketching that demonstrates electronic drawing, Indian dancing at the MIT Summer Bhangra, and MIT Dorm Automation System Party Mode Activation.
Hankering for the Mystery Hunt?
The 2008 Hunt begins January 18, but meanwhile you can test your puzzle talents on the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt. Teams signed a pact with the devil to retrieve the Mystery Hunt coin.
Review Quick Take
Dive into Quick Take, the MIT Alumni Association feature that plays on MIT's multifaceted engagements with topics such as Image (see a visualization of 80 million nouns) or check the archives for Risk, Reading, and Mystery.
Published January 2008
