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MIT Moves All Classes Online For the Rest of the Semester (mit.edu) 4
1. All classes are cancelled for the week of Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 20. Because the following week is spring break, this will allow faculty and instructors two weeks to organize a full transition to online instruction.
2. Online instruction, which some units are already experimenting with this week, will begin for all classes on Monday, March 30, and continue for the remainder of the semester.
3. Undergraduates should not return to campus after spring break. Undergraduates who live in an MIT residence or fraternity, sorority or independent living group (FSILG) must begin packing and departing this Saturday, March 14. We are requiring undergraduates to depart from campus residences no later than noon on Tuesday, March 17. Please see below for details on graduate students.
4.Classes will continue this week as we continue to prepare for this transition.
We are taking this dramatic action to protect the health and safety of everyone at MIT — staff, students, post-docs and faculty — and because MIT has an important role in slowing the spread of this disease. As at any residential college, our residence halls and FSILGs put students in close quarters. What’s more, the intense and free-flowing collaboration MIT is known for comes with close contact and shared spaces, equipment and supplies. These characteristics, which we cherish in normal times, increase the risk of COVID-19 spreading on our campus. Our plan follows directly from state health guidance that universities take steps to reduce the density of the population on campus and increase social distancing. By doing so, we are doing our part to reduce the spread of the disease overall, while directly reducing risk for our own community — for departing students, of course, but equally for those of us who continue to work on campus.
- There’s a huge difference between classroom-led teaching and merely emailing a copy of the presentation out to everyone.
- Came to write that. You can’t possibly simulate all lab assignments, despite virtual labs existing.
refund room and board + other fees?
- Sending back throughout the country by trains planes and automobiles a demographic that, while likely to contract and spread the disease, is probably the least likely to need medical attention as a result. Mom, dad, grandma and grandpa, that they’ll be going back home too, on the other hand….not quite. Stay calm, practice good hygiene, don’t squeeze into tight quarters with other people. And be at peace with the fact that you’ll probably get it eventually. Better to do so in a state 9f calm than a state o
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