<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>************************** GSC ANNOUNCEMENTS *************************</div><div> more extensive announcements online: <a href="http://gsc.mit.edu">http://gsc.mit.edu</a></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>headlines (details below):</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 1. Off-Campus Graduate Student Lunch</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 29, 11:15am, Student Center PDRs 1&2</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 2. Jr. Scientist Survival Training</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 29, 3pm, 4-370</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 3. MIT 2001 Reconciliation Initiative</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 30, 5pm, E53-482</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 4. Achy Obejas Ruins</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 30, 7pm, 6-120</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 5. Boston Graduate Student Party</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 30, 8pm, Roxy (Boston)</div><div><br></div><div>details:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Off-Campus Grad Student Lunch*</div><div><br></div><div>Special Off-Campus Graduate Student Lunch</div><div>April 29, 11:15am, Student Center PDRS 1&2</div><div><br></div><div>What: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(1) Get a Free lunch by giving suggestions to improve </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>off-campus student life</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(2) Socialize with fellow students, GSC off-campus team </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and the GSC President</div><div>When: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4/29 from 11:15am to 12:45pm.</div><div>Who: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>YOU - off-campus graduate students</div><div>Where: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>PDRS 1&2, W22, Student Centre</div><div>Questions: email <a href="mailto:mytang82@mit.edu">mytang82@mit.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:jtc@mit.edu">jtc@mit.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>*Jr. Scientist Survival Training* </div><div>April 29, 3pm, 4-370</div><div><br></div><div>Are you a Ph.D. student wondering:</div><div>- How do I become a "permanent member" of the scientific community?</div><div>- Who is my audience and what do they expect from me?</div><div>- How do I get the freedom to define my own research and obtain funds </div><div>to make it happen?</div><div> </div><div>Come hear author of A Ph.D. Is Not Enough, Peter Feibelman, </div><div>talk about how to survive in science</div><div>Peter Feibelman is a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories </div><div>and author of the book, A PhD Is Not Enough. This workshop will focus </div><div>on ways to establish a scientific identity and how to persuade the </div><div>scientific community it wants the jr. scientists as a member.</div><div> </div><div>Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009</div><div>Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm</div><div>Location: 4-370</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*MIT 2001 Reconciliation Initiative*</div><div>April 30, 5pm, E53-482</div><div><br></div><div>You are cordially invited to "Learning from the Successes and </div><div>Failures of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement," an interactive dialogue </div><div>with Professor Melissa Nobles from MIT's Department of Political </div><div>Science on Thursday, April 30, at 5 pm in E53-482. </div><div><br></div><div>This event is sponsored by a Graduate Student Life Grant. </div><div>Please RSVP to <a href="mailto:bai@mit.edu">bai@mit.edu</a>. </div><div>Dinner will be served for those who RSVP.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*Achy Obejas, Ruins*</div><div>April 30, 7pm, 6-120</div><div><br></div><div>Achy Obejas Reads from her new novel Ruins</div><div>Thursday - April 30th, 2009</div><div>7PM in Bldg 6-120</div><div><br></div><div>Achy Obejas, Ruins</div><div>Ruins tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on </div><div>for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959. </div><div>But as the years have passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the </div><div>glories and he's become increasingly isolated in his revolutionary </div><div>zeal. Now Usnavy is faced with a choice between love for his family </div><div>and the Revolution that has shaped his entire life.</div><div><br></div><div>About the author</div><div>After leaving Cuba at the age of six, an award-winning journalist, </div><div>Obejas worked for more than ten years for the Chicago Tribune writing </div><div>and reporting about arts and culture. Among thousands of stories, she </div><div>helped cover Pope John Paul II's historic 1998 visit to Cuba, the </div><div>arrival of Al-Queda prisoners in Guantanamo, the Versace murder, and </div><div>the AIDS epidemic. In 2008, she translated Junot Diaz's Pulitzer-prize</div><div>winning novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Spanish.</div><div><br></div><div>Co-sponsored by The Center For New Words, MIT Rainbow Lounge, Foreign</div><div>Languages & Literatures, Writing and Humanistic Studies, and Graduate</div><div>Student Council.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div>*THE FIRST EVER Boston Graduate Student Party!* </div><div><br></div><div>Where: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Roxy, downtown Boston (279 Tremont Street)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.roxyplex.com">http://www.roxyplex.com</a>/</div><div>When: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thursday, April 30th, 2009, 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM</div><div>Who: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>all graduate students in the Boston area, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>up to one non-student guest per student; </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>event is closed to the public</div><div>Admission: $4 per person, pay at the door</div><div>Free drink tickets to be won!</div><div><br></div><div>OVER 21 ONLY, bring both age ID and college ID</div><div>CAPACITY LIMITED, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED</div><div><br></div><div>Facebook event page:</div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=70231201729&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=70231201729&ref=ts</a></div><div><br></div><div>Event sponsored by the MIT Graduate Student Council. </div><div>This event is also being supported by the graduate student </div><div>associations from BC, BU, Brandeis, Emerson, Harvard, </div><div>Northeastern, Suffolk, and Tufts.</div><div><br></div><div>Questions/comments: <a href="mailto:boston-party@mit.edu">boston-party@mit.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div><br></div>
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