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| DHS Extends COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Non-U.S. Travelers Entering U.S. via Land/Ferry Ports of Entry |
Proof of vaccination still required upon entry to U.S. by land or by ferry
NOTE: This announcement does NOT change the requirements for entry to the U.S. by air.
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On April 21, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it has extended the requirements that all non-U.S. Citizen/Permanent Resident travelers entering the U.S. by a Land or Ferry port-of-entry (at the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders) must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination at time of entry.
This requirement applies for travelers entering the U.S. both for essential (e.g., study, employment) and for non-essential (tourist) reasons.
Please read the full announcement here.
Again, this requirement does NOT apply to U.S. Citizens, U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders), or certain other U.S. nationals.
NOTE: This announcement does NOT change the requirements for entry to the U.S. by air.
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| Earth Day |
| Happy Earth Day |
April 22 is Earth Day, which has been celebrated in the U.S. since 1970. Now more than 190 countries are engaged globally.
MIT EVENT
Saturday, April 23:
Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience Tours 9:00am-12:30/1:30pm
Join one of 3 free guided walking tours! Buses leave at 9:00am from 77 Mass. Ave. Registration required, MIT community only. See website for details. Register here & please use this form to select your preferred tour!
• GreenRoots environmental justice tour and community cleanup of Chelsea (including lunch! with a 1:30 pm return)
• Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) Toxic Tour of Nubian Square, Roxbury
• The Food Project’s tour of its urban farming spaces in North Dorchester
Panel Discussions among our community partners
2-5pm MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, Bldg. E38, 292 Main Street, Kendall T
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| SSN Applications Now Accepted In-Person at SSA-Cambridge |
| Social Security Office Re-opened April 7, 2022 |
The Social Security Administration (SSA) Office in Cambridge announced that effective Thursday, April 7, 2022 they are now accepting walk-in, in-person submissions of Social Security Number (SSN) applications.
No appointment is required; however, students are advised to be prepared for a wait (e.g. bring something to read) in case the demand is high. Applications will be accepted on a first-in, first-out basis.
We have updated the ISO SSN webpage to confirm the documents needed to submit for the SSN application, so please review and prepare in advance of going to the SSA-Cambridge Office. |
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Spring 2022
Navigating MIT Series |
Last session is FRIDAY April 29:
Finish Strong: End-of-Semester Hacks |
- Discover Boston in the Spring/Summer - Thurs, March 17 at 12noon in E19-202 (Slides)
- Imposter Phenomenon - Tues, March 29 at 5pm in 32-124 (Slides and IP Scale)
- Dating and Long-term Relationships - Fri, April 8 at 12noon in E19-202 (Slides)
- Cooking and Meal Prep for the Week - Tues, April 12 at 4pm via Zoom (Online Recipe Book)
- Finish Strong: End-of-Semester Hacks - Fri, April 29 at 12noon in E19-202
*MOST SESSIONS ARE IN PERSON, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. SPACE IS LIMITED. |
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| LCE: Tea & Talk |
Tuesday, May 10 from 2 to 3 pm
Stata (Building 32) Amphitheater |
Meet and greet with the MIT Language Conversation Exchange. Practice a language with native speakers, meet a language partner, and learn about the LCE!
Co-sponsored by LCE and ISO
Please sign up before May 7 for bubble tea 😁 |
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| LCE: Conversation Groups |
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Join a small group for language practice and conversation exchange!
Our enthusiastic volunteers are leading small groups for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Portuguese/Spanish, and German!
Find dates and times in our LCE Community Slack Space and by subscribing to our newsletter. Interested in starting a group for another language? Reach out to the LCE team at lce@mit.edu.
If you are interested in another language, please fill out the form. We are also looking for new group leaders.
The Language Conversation Exchange is co-sponsored by ISO
Link to interest Form here |
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| Egyptian Students Association Iftar |
Saturday, April 23 from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
W20-208
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Come join us with the Muslim Student Association over Iftar. Egyptian/Middle eastern food will be provided. Food will be served at 7:45.
Please RSVP for head count. |
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| Sant Jordi (St. George celebration) |
| Saturday, April 23 from 1 PM – 4 PM
Site 4 Outdoor Terrace
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This Saturday, March 23rd is Sant Jordi (Saint George's Day), a popular Catalan tradition where roses and books are exchanged between loved ones. At Catalonia@MIT we're organizing an event to celebrate it where there will be delicious Catalan/Spanish food and we will be giving away roses. We're looking forward to seeing you at 1 PM in Site 4 Open Terrace!
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| HSA Greek Easter Celebration |
Sunday, April 24 from 1 PM – 6 PM
Sidney Pacific Grad Residence |
We are delighted to invite you to our most legendary staple event of the year, our Greek Easter celebration! Our feast will include: spit roasting of whole lambs, delicious homemade Greek specialties, traditional Greek desserts. We will also have live Greek music and dancing.
To buy tickets visit our facebook page. We hope to see many non-Greeks at our biggest event of the year!
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| The MTA Playwrights Lab is back! |
Multiple Tuesdays until April 26 at 8pm
W97-160, 345 VASSAR STREET |
The MTA Playwrights Lab is back! From March 29 until April 26. Started as a weekend-long event in 2017, the Lab has now grown into a multi-week festival of staged readings featuring the work of the writers in 21M.785 taught by Ken Urban. ALL READINGS @ W97-160 @ 8pm, 345 VASSAR STREET.
Open to the MIT Community and Public.
Please register all 5 readings through this link. |
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| Infinite Careers: International Student AeroAstro & TPP Alum Speaking |
Wednesday, April 27th at 12pm
Virtual |
Infinite Careers is an alumni speaker series designed to expose students to a variety of career paths and the non-linearity of career decision making. This series allows students to hear the stories of alumni with both traditional and unconventional career paths, and get to know alumni in interesting fields. One such alumnus is Hector Fornes-Martinez, who currently works as a Network Strategy and Innovation Manager at Vueling Airlines, a Barcelona-based airline. Hector graduated from MIT in 2015 with a dual Master’s in AeroAstro and Technology & Policy. This CAPD virtual event is open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and alumni.
Registration is requested to hear Hector talk on Wednesday, April 27th at 12pm. Uber Eats credits will be given to participants who attended the event. |
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| PEP Workshop Preview Week |
April 27 - 28
SPXE Intercultural Center (W31-110)
Please RSVP here by Friday, April 22
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This year’s cohort of PEP Leaders have been working very hard over the past year to create diversity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, and social justice workshops for all students and student groups at MIT. The workshop previews give students and student-facing staff the opportunity to “sample” the workshop – providing a full learning experience of the workshops and a chance to help us assess these learning opportunities for future use.
As a participant, you will help us assess the new workshops on:
- Presentation & Facilitation
- Organization
- Content & Delivery
- Discussion
Please RSVP here by Friday, April 22.
RSVP to attend a workshop today! All workshops will be held at the SPXCE Intercultural Center (W31-110). Refreshments will be served!
How To Become A Better Ally
Wednesday, April 27
6:00 - 7:30 PM
W31-110
A Workshop for students and student leaders to learn about allyship and marginalized experiences by OMP PEP Leaders.
Power & Stress
Thursday, April 28
12:30 - 2:00 PM
W31-110
Join us for a discussion about how power dynamics affect daily life, and talk through situations that may come up at MIT.
Asking For Help: Resources 101
Thursday, April 28
5:00 - 6:30 PM
W31-110
In this workshop, we'll discuss why asking for help is important and the resources available for students at MIT. |
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| Personal Empowerment Series: The Empowered Job Seeker From Networking to Negotiation |
Thurs April 28 from 5:30 to 6:30pm
Virtual |
Job searches can be long & exhausting at worst, but at their best, they empower the job seeker and build momentum for your early career! Through effective networking and negotiation, you can craft a job search that not only succeeds in you landing a job, but builds external relationships and confidence about your inherent value. In this workshop with the Career Advising & Professional Development office, participants will learn how to:
- Build robust networks in your industry
- Negotiate your salary at all stages of the interview process
- Land a job offer that feels equitable and exciting
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| OGE: Parenting Students Lunch & Learn Series |
Final session on Thursday, April 28 at Noon
Virtual via Zoom |
2022 MIT: Office of Graduate Education
Parenting Students Lunch & Learn Series
Carole Ann Penny
Thurs April 28, 2022 at Noon
Leadership and Parenting - Carole Ann Penny runs a strategic career coaching business while parenting two kids. She will guide a conversation about what it means to be a leader in the workplace as well as a parent!
Link to register
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| Graduate Student Disability Justice Game Night |
Thursday, April 28 7pm-9pm
Location TBA (on campus) |
Join us for a board game night for graduate students, especially those who identify as disabled and/or neurodiverse. We hope this event can be a fun, relaxing way to foster community among the disabled/neurodivergent grad students!
Dinner provided - RSVP to help us plan! https://tinyurl.com/gscdeigamenight
Hosted by the Grad Student Council Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee (GSC DEI). Reach out to gsc-diversity-officers@mit.edu with any questions!
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| An Evening with Tressie McMillan Cottom |
Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 5:30pm
The Nexus, Hayden Library 14S-130 |
Tressie McMillan Cottom explores the everyday culture of big ideas like racism, sexism, inequality, and oppression by giving us the language to live better lives. Her far-ranging intellectual interests include books, articles, magazine profiles, and opinion-editorials, but it is her essays that routinely shape the discourse – part revolutionary pamphlet, part poetic chapbook, part sociological analysis, and part call-to-arms.
Cottom is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a member of the inaugural external advisory committee for the MIT Libraries’ Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).
- In-person attendance at Hayden Library (14S-100): MIT Covid Pass required
- The event will also be live streamed.
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MIT Alumnae Bilingual Poetry Reading
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"No Need for Translation"
Friday, May 6, 4:00 pm
Virtual via zoom
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MIT Global Languages is excited to host a group of MIT alumnae poets for a reading focused on bilingual, multilingual, and other “beyond English” poetry!
These recent alumnae are authors of a poetry anthology, Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air (forthcoming from Beltway Editions in April 2022), focused on themes of family, identity, and homeland. The project was funded in part by CAMIT and MIT MindHandHeart. The authors’ work bridges many languages, from Arabic to Bangla, Spanish, and Urdu.
At this event, they will be sharing some of their work, both published and unpublished.
Audience members are also encouraged to bring their work in which languages other than English are featured, whether that work is their own or by other poets, to share during the Q&A. Look forward to seeing you there!
Global Languages will have a limited number of copies of Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air for distribution in the week prior to this event.
Registration required: REGISTER |
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| Everything you Need to Know about Attending a U.S. Law School |
Thursday May 12 from 9am-12pm
Virtual |
- Wonder how to choose the best school?
- What you can do to maximize your chances of getting into a great school?
- Whether an American LL.M. is worth the cost and time?
- Wonder how easy it is to get admitted?
- Are you thinking about an LL.M. in America?
Join us for three hours and leave with peace of mind and confidence that you are on the right path for your career. Admissions experts and deans from more than 10 U.S. law schools will answer your questions and help you navigate the world of graduate law degrees in the U.S.
This virtual program is designed for foreign attorneys but is open to anyone interested in graduate law programs. And best of all, it’s free.
Check out our website for speakers, topics, and how to register for free.
Sponsored by CAPD
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| The Writing and Communication Center continues its free consultations during Spring 2022! |
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| The Writing and Communication Center (WCC) continues its free one-on-one consultations on different types of written, spoken, and visual communication. You can receive in-person and remote support there at all stages of the writing and communication process, from brainstorming to the final version, on such projects as research papers, fellowship applications, cover letters, personal statements, dissertations, presentations, or posters. The WCC can also mentor you through writer’s blocks including procrastination, perfectionism, demoralization, and imposter stress. To learn more about the WCC, check their website and make an appointment through this link: https://mit.mywconline.com. Don’t wait, schedule today! |
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| Guide to Food @MIT |
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| The Food Security Action Team has shared guides to food @ MIT. Click on the flyers to access. |
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| Wellness Events & Resources |
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| [Wellbeing Check-in] This month: Mind |
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Focusing on your wellbeing by caring for your mind and body, fostering meaningful relationships, and finding purpose can help you to thrive in all aspects of your life.
Each month, we will provide a wellbeing check-in question related to one of the 4 pillars. Wellbeing Check-in questions are brought to you by DoingWell.
Ask Yourself: How am I letting matters that are out of my control stress me out?
Visit doingwell.mit.edu for more resources to prioritize your wellbeing.
Take care of yourself during challenging times |
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Sleep, Outdoors, Mindfulness, Exercise |
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| SOME is better than none |
| An acronym to help you through tough times. |
During times of uncertainty and stress, SOME activities are especially effective for caring for the body and mind: Sleep, Outdoor time, Mindfulness, and Exercise will help sustain you during tough times.
Instead of an “all-or-nothing” approach to self-care, you can choose SOMEthing from the list and do SOME of it today. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to work for you. SOME activities signal to your body and mind that you are listening to, appreciating, and taking care of yourself – because during extraordinary times, you really are doing SOMEthing extraordinary.
S is for Sleep: If you feel draggy and tired when you first wake up, turn on lights immediately and open window shades if the sun is up. Light can help suppress melatonin production (associated with sleepiness) and increase wakefulness.
O is for Outdoors: Sensory Walking: This adaptation for the walking meditation is simple, and just involves really tuning into our five senses as we move through space. As we get into the moment with our senses, we can really savor the precious moments we do have to be outside and moving, and all that is around us. Our senses keep us grounded in the moment while our thoughts drift to the past or future. Keep your eyes still, focus on the soles of your feet, focus on sounds, and focus on smells and tastes in the air.
-Dr. Chris Willard
M is for Mindfulness: Try listening mindfully when your friends speak. Instead of planning what to say next, take a deep breath, stay present, and give them your full attention. Attention is the greatest gift you could give!
E is for Exercise: Fit a workout in doing every day tasks! Increase your leg strength by doing squats instead of bending at the waist while picking up your house. As you walk up the stairs, try doing calf raises. Run alongside your kids when they are playing outside to get some cardio in. Making little changes like these could add up to about 60 minutes of exercise a day. |
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| Boston Symphony Orchestra MIT Discount |
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| Subsidized $5 BSO College Cards are now available for MIT students! This program is supported by the Bobko BSO Ticket Fund. With a BSO College Card, students can reserve free tickets to Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts each week during the entire 2021-22 season. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test required—make sure to review the BSO public health policy: Safe in Sound. |
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