Housing lottery results, town hall, half term add date
The results of the residence hall switch lottery will be sent to students Monday.
Many college students excluded from receiving direct payments from stimulus package
The package will provide direct payments to lower and middle-income individuals, provide higher level education institutions with emergency funds, and temporarily relieve student loan borrowers.
MIT students create virtual community through Discord server
Popular events have included live-streamed movie nights with LSC, as well as game nights where users could join a voice channel and play games such as Jackbox and wiki-racing.
MIT Dining finalizes meal plan options for 2020-2021 academic year
The price of the top meal plan increased six percent from the 2019-2020 academic year, MIT Dining Director Mark Hayes said in an interview with The Tech. Hayes added that a six percent increase is the “maximum allowed for the financial aid calculation.”
MIT to subsidize MIT Dining staff wages
Hayes said that MIT Dining wants to ensure that staff are able to support their families and themselves and “maintain their benefits” so that when dining reopens, “we still have the staff to do that.”
Class of 2024 admissions rate rises to 7.3%
MIT released its regular action decisions for the Class of 2024 March 14. Of the 20,075 students who applied this admissions cycle, 1,457 students were admitted, making for a 7.3% acceptance rate. Of these, 687 students were admitted early, from a pool of 9,291 early applicants.
On the coronavirus stimulus bill
Hopefully for some college students who are just entering the political sphere, the coronavirus crisis and the way our (democratic and less democratic) institutions respond, including but not limited to the recent stimulus bill, serve to bring them into the fold.
Administrators roll out retaliatory self-grading scheme
Students are expected to self-place on the normal grading curves.
TikTok popularity irrefutably correlated with U.S. unemployment claims
As we increase the log of Google search interest in TikToks, we see an irrefutable rise in initial unemployment claims as reported on a weekly basis by the NSA.
Corona extra extra, read all about it!
“Choose your fighter: ‘Love is Blind’ or ‘The Bachelor.’”
The album to make you ‘Love Again’
This is my track-by-track take on Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia.’
Murder, prostitutes, and fishing
‘Blow the Man Down’ is a smartly written and directed black comedy thriller about the women who pull the strings in a northern Maine fishing village, and whose old secrets threaten to come to light when two young sisters cover up a murder.
MIT Softball team highlight
To the rest of their team and for the future players of MIT Softball, the seniors have one message, “love the game every day, Tech <3.”
Losing a last chance: diaries from MIT’s track and field national qualifiers
Trautner: I woke up this morning, and I wished I hadn't. For a few blissful seconds, I didn't remember what had happened. As my eyes focused on the walls of my room, the events of yesterday came rolling over me.
The Course 3 fam
I cried three times that week. The first was when Jeff Grossman made his speech about how we would stay together, even if we were physically apart, and that Course 3 was a community for life.
