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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear undergrads, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With Banana Lounge almost two years old now, we’d love to hear your feedback on the space and on social space, more broadly:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a quick three-and-a-half question google form about the Lounge:
<a href="https://forms.gle/UH8NKQkeNe2e8S4cA" target="_BLANKĹ">https://forms.gle/UH8NKQkeNe2e8S4cA</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also have posters for leaving feedback in the Lounge. And exotic bananas, including
<i>Musa</i> <i>acuminata (AA) </i>‘Lady Finger’ (baby bananas!) and <i>Musa</i> <i>
acuminata (AAA) </i>‘Red Dacca’ (red bananas!) to say thanks. Thank you to everyone who has already left their thoughts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After four years serving as Chair of UA Innovation, this marks my last day in office and at MIT. I hope our work has been useful and served to help make MIT a better place for you and your dreams.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is sometimes hard to believe that it was only in April 2018 that Banana Lounge began…a student initiative that started as nothing more than temporary permission to run six little five-day experiments to try and create a little happy
place in the heart of campus where we all can work, nap, play, cry, run into friends, chat, and collaborate with each other on our wildest projects.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hundreds of thousands of student visits later, and over 191,000 bananas served…wow!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This spirit we try to uphold, always. We pride ourselves on Banana Lounge being a space for students, by students, and so we need your help: Banana Lounge benefits from upkeep, help with deliveries, events, and constant work politically
and financially to keep it running. We’d love to hear your thoughts and have your support.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After two years of running Banana Lounge, the time has come to hand it off to a new team. You can reach the team at any time via
<a href="mailto:bananalounge@mit.edu">bananalounge@mit.edu</a>; they will also be holding events in the coming weeks, sharing how you can get involved and help out in the space. (They’ll share more next week)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been an honor serving you. Keep up all the awesome,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Malte<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UA Innovation, <a href="http://ua.mit.edu/">ua.mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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