Caring for others + how LLMs learn + road safety

By rahmat hidayat

Jumat, 21 November 2025

view in browser MIT Daily November 21, 2025 Greetings, and happy Friday! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Caring for Others Experiences with MIT EMS and Air Force ROTC inspired MIT senior Josh Randolph to aim for medical school so he can join the U.S. Air Force as a doctor. “I always wanted to be in public service, serve my community, and serve my country,” he says. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Teaching large language models how to absorb new knowledge With a new method developed at MIT, an LLM behaves more like a student, writing notes that it studies to memorize new information. Full story via MIT News → How a building creates and defines a region A new MIT course explores how built environments can both emerge from and reveal the internal dynamics of their geographic context.  Full story via MIT News → Road safety drives GM leader As executive VP of global product and chief product officer at GM, Sterling Anderson SM ’09, PhD ’13 says “there’s a real drive to make transportation safer.” Full story via Slice of MIT→ #ThisisMIT Follow @mitathletics on Instagram → In the Media How the brain moves from waking life to sleep (and back again) // Quanta Magazine Associate Professor Laura Lewis discusses her quest to better understand how the brain transitions to sleep. “Our brains can really rapidly transform us from being aware of our environments to being unconscious, or even experiencing things that aren’t there,” says Lewis. “This raises deeply fascinating questions about our human experience.” Full story via Quanta Magazine→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by the northern lights as seen from MIT. 🌌 Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful weekend! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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