First quarter PE classes, Quarantine Week, registration day
Seniors may register for first quarter PE classes starting 8 a.m. Thursday. All other undergraduates may register for first quarter PE classes starting 8 a.m. Friday.
First week of full campus COVID-19 testing plagued by long lines
Wait times averaged 45–60 minutes Aug. 17 and Aug 18. Average wait times decreased to under 15 minutes Aug. 26. Overall, they have averaged 15–20 minutes, Stuopis wrote in an email to The Tech.
Undergraduates returning to campus during fall to participate in mandatory Quarantine Week
During Q-Week, students “cannot have direct contact with anyone else, including prospective podmates,” and may only leave their rooms to “use their assigned bathroom,” “get packages or meals,” or exercise outdoors.
Nergis Mavalvala PhD ’97 becomes Dean of Science
Mavalvala shared her three main priorities for the School of Science: to push forward MIT’s scientific research and interdisciplinary collaboration, promote diversity and inclusion in science, and improve career development pathways for the school’s staff.
Diane B. Greene SM ’78 elected as incoming Chair of the MIT Corporation
Greene is the first woman elected to chair the MIT Corporation, an organization of 78 members from academia and industry who serve as MIT’s board of trustees. She succeeds Robert B. Millard ’73, who has served as Chairman since 2014.
Departments remove GRE requirements for 2020–2021 graduate admissions cycle
Educational Testing Service, the organization that administers the GRE, announced Aug. 20 that the September and October GRE Subject Test administrations “have been canceled due to impacts from the pandemic” and that “the next opportunity to take a Subject Test — assuming health conditions improve — will be April 2021.”
The MechE qualifying exam fails women
Numerous studies have shown that there is gender bias in STEM. MIT is likely no exception.
An edge-of-the-seat cat and mouse chase
A wrongfully accused man is on the run and determined to find the killer of his wife. A relentless U.S. Marshal is hell-bent on apprehending this fugitive. The suspenseful chase that ensues is sure to get your heart racing and adrenaline pumping.
It’s Troye Sivan’s dream and we’re just living in it
Amidst a pandemic, Troye Sivan’s still got some bops he needs to drop. He released his latest EP, “In a Dream”, six years after his first EP and the start of his music career.
Dilapidated doting
I’m seeing things I hadn’t seen in years since I left the great state of Texas.
