Winterfest, last day of classes, pre-registration
Winterfest is being held December 9 at Charles M. Vest Student Street and the Koch Institute Lobby from 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Four more MIT seniors declared 2020 Rhodes Scholars
Woltz, Vasconcelos, and Yamoah are all currently conducting research with the Engineering Quantum Systems Group in the Research Lab for Electronics.
EAPS community gathers at teach-in to discuss Shell donations to Green Building
Supran cited Shell’s donations to MIT and Chevron’s collaboration with Stanford as “the fossil fuel industry’s invisible colonization of academia.”
Thanksgiving break, W20 closure, IAP/Spring pre-registration
There will be no classes Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Meal Plan Working Group discusses dining costs at DormCon meeting
The addition of the New Vassar dining hall is expected to increase MIT Dining’s financial loss from $1.6 million to $2.2 million.
Dorm presidents elect DormCon CPW/REX, i3/RAC, and dining chairs
Zawad Chowdhury ’23 and Shaida Nishat ’22 were elected CPW/REX chairs. Adebayo Ojute ’23 and Ahmed Katary ’23 were elected i3/RAC chairs. Emma Batson ’20 was elected dining chair.
Thanksgiving break, blood drive, W20 closure
A blood drive will be held in La Sala de Puerto Rico on the second floor of the Student Center Monday Nov. 25 and Tuesday Nov. 26 from 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Visit the following website to make an appointment: http://web.mit.edu/blood-drive/www/.
Ali Daher receives Rhodes Scholarship
Daher advises students to take their time when deciding on a research interest. “You only get to really know your passions once you get out of your comfort zone [and] start taking a couple of classes and [doing] projects that ... you might not necessarily stick to. If you’re not going to explore at MIT, where and when are you going to explore?”
MIT receives $261 million from Lord Foundation
The Lord Foundations were established by Thomas Lord to support institutions seeking to advance research, education, and innovation. Each foundation benefits a specific university or institution selected by Lord and his successor, Donald Alstadt.
Office of the Vice Chancellor conducts reviews of Phase Two of CUP experiment
While GPA in science core GIRs increased by 0.06 in Fall 2018, GPA in science core GIRs dropped by 0.36 in Spring 2019, according to last year’s results from Phase One of the experiment.
College of Computing discussed during Nov. 20 faculty meeting
Huttenlocher’s presentation outlined three key areas that the college intends to address: computing fields and their rapid evolution, computing in other disciplines, and the social and ethical responsibilities of computing.
Drop date, student-faculty dinners, leadership award
Students have until 11:59 p.m. Nov. 20 to submit approved changes for drop date, to change a subject from credit to listener, or to petition a December advanced standing exam.
Meal Plan Working Group to develop a new meal plan model
Director of Campus Dining Mark Hayes said that the Meal Plan Working Group is receiving input from students by including members of the House Dining Committee (HDC) in working group meetings, facilitating discussions with different dorms and their respective heads of houses and interested residents, and opening up an online form where students can provide feedback.
Koch portrait in Building 66 covered by artwork ‘Tarnished Horizons’
An email sent to The Tech by the anonymous group describes the painting as “an impressionist rendering of a flaming offshore drilling rig filling the sky with smoke and the sea with oil.”
UA Vice President resigns, Charlotte Minsky appointed as successor
Elango wrote in an email to The Tech that Green resigned because he is taking a leave of absence from MIT.
Brothers Marketplace opens in Kendall Square
The store offers higher-priced organic and locally-sourced options. The cooked foods section of the store includes a bakery and cafe, a salad bar, a deli, a hot pretzel display, and a sushi display.
MIT Libraries support staff vote to unionize
Sixty members of the support staff voted in favor, while four voted against.
Preliminary unofficial results of Cambridge City Council election released
Incumbents Dennis J. Carlone, Alanna M. Mallon, Marc C. McGovern, E. Denise Simmons, Sumbul Siddiqui, Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., and Quinton Y. Zondervan SM ’95 were re-elected. Patricia M. Nolan and Jivan-Sobrinho-Wheeler were newly elected.
2023 class council, Veterans Day, Drop date
Voting for 2023 class council closes 5pm Friday.
Graduate Family Support Working Group interim report released
As a result of the working group’s discoveries, a new mailing list has been launched, a summer orientation webinar has been developed, an Atlas for New Grads family tile is being developed, and a WhatsApp group specially made for graduate families has been created.