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- Feb 208:00 AMChoose to ReuseChoose to Reuse!Join us at Choose to Reuse in Lobby 13Event Details: • Location: Lobby 13 • Drop-off Time: Starting at 8:00 AM • Pick-up Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PMHow It Works: • From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, you can take up to five items per person. After 12:00 PM, there’s no limit, and you’re welcome to come back for more. • Items can be dropped off until 12:15 PM, so there will be new items available throughout the event. • You don’t need to donate in order to pick something up, and you don’t have to take back what you dropped off. • There is no charge, but an MIT ID is required to attend.What is Choose to Reuse? Since 2010, the Working Green Committee and the Department of Facilities have sponsored this monthly event during the academic year. The goal is to reduce our environmental impact and positively affect the community by sharing items instead of buying new ones.What Will You Find? It depends on the donations! We’ll have books, office supplies, housewares, clothes, and more. There may even be toys and stuffed animals. Stop by and see what’s available!Are There Any Restrictions on Donations? Yes. All items should be clean and in working condition. Items should be light enough to carry easily. Food items must be unopened and unexpired. Opened packages are not acceptable. Large items, such as furniture, can be posted on Rheaply, an online marketplace for exchanging items within the MIT community.What Happens to Leftover Items? • All clothing is donated to on-campus thrift or reuse events or goes into textile recycling. • Some housewares are donated to the Furniture Exchange. • Volunteers will sort through everything else to determine what is recyclable.Data Collection: Choose to Reuse volunteers count every person and item that comes to the event. Last year, we had over 1,500 attendees!Have more questions?Email: staffrecycles@mit.edu
- Feb 208:00 AMGHI Forum presents, "COGNITION, LEARNING & HUMAN FLOURISHING: A Journey into Presence, Practice, and Complexity"Join us for the inaugural GHI Forum! This session introduces the Cognition, Learning, and Human Flourishing pillar and the Living in Complexity project, inviting participants to explore how contemplative practices foster resilience, cognitive flexibility, and meaning-making in an uncertain world.We will introduce the pillar’s key concepts and facilitate an interactive discussion where we invite you to explore how the pillar's themes relate to your own work. To anchor our exploration in direct experience, we will weave in experiential segments, incorporating meditation, somatic movement, and reflective writing.This will be a space to engage the mind, heart, spirit, and body—a conversation through moments of stillness, movement, and reflection. Come ready to share, listen, explore, and step into a different way of thinking and being together. For this session, bring a journal, get comfortable with tea or coffee, and step away from your usual workspace—perhaps onto a meditation cushion—to symbolically shift from routine and enter these 90 minutes with curiosity.GHI FORUM SERIES:1st GHI Forum- Title: Cognition, Learning & Human Flourishing- Date: February 21, 8:00–9:30 AM EST- Speakers: Jonas Mago, Justus Wachs2nd GHI Forum- Title: Good Governance in Bad Times- Date: March 28, 8:00–9:30 AM EST- Speakers: Wiebke Denecke, Johannes Makar, Michael Puett3rd GHI Forum- Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences- Date: April 11, 8:00–9:30 AM EST- Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke4th GHI Forum- Title: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence- Date: May 9, 8:00–9:30 AM EST- Speakers: Gabor Hollbeck, Mikael Jakobsson, Richard Eberhardt
- Feb 208:00 AMMIT Sloan Fintech ConferenceThe MIT Sloan Fintech Conference is one of the largest student-run conferences in the world. Taking place on February 20 and 21, 2025, it will bring together over 500 attendees including investors, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, students and professors.
- Feb 208:00 AMSpring into Writing with Writing Together Online!Writing Together Online offers structured time to help you spring into writing and stay focused this semester. We offer writing sessions every workday, Monday through Friday. Join our daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of scholars who connect online, set realistic goals, and write together in the spirit of accountability and camaraderie. The program is open to all MIT students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates who are working on papers, proposals, thesis/dissertation chapters, application materials, and other writing projects. For more information and to register, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with colleagues and friends.Register for Spring 2025 Writing Challenge 1Choose those sessions that you want to attend during Challenge 1: February 10th through March 21stMondays 9:00–10:30amTuesdays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amWednesdays 9:00–10:30amThursdays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amFridays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amMIT Students and postdocs who attend at least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a raffle of three $25 Amazon gift cards. The raffle will take place on Friday, March 21st. The more you participate, the more times you will be entered into the raffle of prizes.For more information and to register, check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with peers and friends.The funding support for this program comes from the Office of Graduate Education
- Feb 209:30 AMNewcomers Office HourAre you new to MIT and MIT Spouses & Partners Connect? Want to learn about how to participate in our meetings and groups? Have questions about living, working, and/or parenting in Boston? Meet with Jennifer Recklet Tassi, the Program Manager, and Viktoriia Palesheva, the Program Assistant, and ask your questions about life at MIT and in Boston.If you'd like to attend, just send an email to spousesandpartners@mit.edu to let us know you're coming.
- Feb 209:30 AMSpring into Writing with Writing Together Online!Writing Together Online offers structured time to help you spring into writing and stay focused this semester. We offer writing sessions every workday, Monday through Friday. Join our daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of scholars who connect online, set realistic goals, and write together in the spirit of accountability and camaraderie. The program is open to all MIT students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates who are working on papers, proposals, thesis/dissertation chapters, application materials, and other writing projects. For more information and to register, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with colleagues and friends.Register for Spring 2025 Writing Challenge 1Choose those sessions that you want to attend during Challenge 1: February 10th through March 21stMondays 9:00–10:30amTuesdays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amWednesdays 9:00–10:30amThursdays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amFridays 8–9:30am and 9:30–11amMIT Students and postdocs who attend at least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a raffle of three $25 Amazon gift cards. The raffle will take place on Friday, March 21st. The more you participate, the more times you will be entered into the raffle of prizes.For more information and to register, check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with peers and friends.The funding support for this program comes from the Office of Graduate Education