• Tax Workshop: Resident Students/Scholars & U.S. Citizens

    The VPF Tax team will host a virtual tax workshop on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, beginning at 8 pm. Audience: International Students in the U.S. more than 5 years; International Scholars more than 2 years; U.S. Legal Permanent Residents The tax team advises students to attend this workshop in advance of filing their 2020 tax returns. The workshops will feature presentations […]

  • RAK Week: Preventing Burnout

    Random Acts of Kindness Week (RAK Week) is March 1-5, 2021 Workshop: Preventing BurnoutPresenter: Maryam Khodadoust (SMH&CS) mit.zoom.us/j/92179632108 Do you work in fits and spurts around deadlines? Do you keep promising yourself to do things differently, but have a hard time transitioning to a healthier pacing? Attend this workshop and learn strategies to break out […]

  • LCE Conversation Cafe

    After a short opening presentation, language learners will be sorted into breakout rooms by language where you can practice with native speakers.Participants can start arriving by 11:50am so that presentation can start promptly at 12noon. For MIT communityCo-sponsored by Language Conversation Exchange (LCE) & ISO Advance registration for each event is required

  • Zoom Break: Codenames

    Join your fellow international students and postdocs for a virtual zoom break and an interactive online game twice per month! Please sign up if you plan to attend.

  • LCE Conversation Cafe

    After a short opening presentation, language learners will be sorted into breakout rooms by language where you can practice with native speakers.Participants can start arriving by 11:50am so that presentation can start promptly at 12noon. For MIT communityCo-sponsored by Language Conversation Exchange (LCE) & ISO Advance registration for each event is required

  • Employment Info Session/Q&A: International Student Employment Resources

    The ISO will be hosting a Information Session/Q&A on International Student Employment Resources on Thursday, March 18, 2021, from 11:00am-12:00noon.  This session will address questions about obtaining work permission for off-campus internships, experiences, and post-degree employment opportunities (including F-1 CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, and J-1 Academic Training).  Questions can be submitted in advance online:  https://tinyurl.com/efvd7s76   Students are encouraged […]

  • Zoom Break: “Among Us”

    Join to play an hour of Among Us with us!  Among Us is an "online multiplayer social deduction game" wherein up to ten players run around inside a virtual spaceship completing classic spaceship maintenance tasks while trying to figure out who the "Impostors" are before they kill everyone. Remember that sleepover game Mafia? It's basically […]

  • Navigating MIT Series: Understanding American Culture & Friendship

    Various topics to support international students with adjustment to MIT and the U.S. during the spring semester. Most topics are repeated from the fall semester since some students have newly arrived for the spring. All sessions will be held virtually over Zoom at 1pm ET (Eastern Time Zone, or Cambridge, MA time). Even if you […]

  • Navigating MIT Series: Healthy Relationships in Pandemic Times

    Various topics to support international students with adjustment to MIT and the U.S. during the spring semester. Most topics are repeated from the fall semester since some students have newly arrived for the spring. All sessions will be held virtually over Zoom at 1pm ET (Eastern Time Zone, or Cambridge, MA time). Even if you […]

  • LCE Conversation Cafe

    After a short opening presentation, language learners will be sorted into breakout rooms by language where you can practice with native speakers.Participants can start arriving by 11:50am so that presentation can start promptly at 12noon. For MIT communityCo-sponsored by Language Conversation Exchange (LCE) & ISO Advance registration for each event is required