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Written by Sofia Vallia
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 21:09 |
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 Does it feel like the graduate budget doesn’t offer that extra expendable income with which to travel? Well… it doesn’t in the traditional sense, but while graduate school demands that we develop skills of rigor, perseverance and creativity to push the limits of research; many of those very lessons can be applied to our personal lives to make the most of our precious free time. I don’t have all of the answers, but I’ve discovered a gem that certainly deserves to be shared, and that is the world of Couchsurfing.com.
Couchsurfing.com is a website that brings together people willing to open up their apartments  to a wandering traveler for a few days in the hopes that someone will do the same for them in the future. It doesn’t mean that you can only stay with people planning to travel to Cambridge in the next few years. In fact, with a roommate and a stream of Psets, right now might not be the time for you to be the greatest host. But that’s ok. There exist options to simply act as a tour guide for a day or just meet up for a coffee and a quick dose of local culture… So if work forces you to stay in Cambridge, a bright-eyed traveler touring campus and grabbing lunch with you might be a great way to get the starry perspective of a tourist and set up connections for the future.
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Written by Adeeti Ullal
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Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:04 |
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Everyone says that graduate school is the best time to travel. Your schedule is flexible, and once in a while you convince your advisor that there’s a really awesome conference you must attend in Hawaii. And while there are no conferences in Belize, it’s a well-kept secret that’s worth escaping lab for a week to explore all that it has to offer. When someone first suggested that I visit Belize, my first reaction was “Where is that?” and “What’s there?” Formerly the British Honduras, Belize is in Central America (just South of Guatemala) and has a little something for everyone from exploring ancient Mayan cave dwellings and ruins and hiking through tropical jungles to snorkeling with an array of colorful fish and relaxing by a beautiful beach.
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Written by David Bradwell
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:54 |
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For a fortnight in late March, I joined 50 students from around the world, including five other MIT students, on an expedition to the bottom of our planet. We were invited to Antarctica with the common interest in addressing perhaps the greatest challenge of our generation, climate change. As I reflect upon my experience – watching blue icebergs calve off of slowly advancing glaciers, laying breathless as we camped beneath a dazzling night sky, and admiring the majestic tails of humpback whales as they dove from our world into theirs, I can’t help but smile. The journey began in early fall, when an offshoot of the British oil giant, BP Alternative Energy, solicited applications and received over 1700.
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