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GW at MIT Newsletter February 5, 2019
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Message from the GWAMIT Board:
Good luck everybody for the first day of classes and the Spring semester!
Recharge batteries with the following events coming soon!

- The GW at MIT Board
*Event overview:*


*GW at MIT:   *
1. GW at MIT: Apply to the next GW at MIT Executive Board! (Now!)
2. GW at MIT: Galentine's Day! (Feb 13)
3. WGS: Amanda Seales - Smart, Funny and Black! (Feb 22)
4. NE GWiSE Annual Spring to Action! (April 6)

*Note:*
MIT Running Group is cancelled.
We will let you know when it resumes!

*WELLNESS:*

5. MIT Recreation: Group Exercise Demo Week, free! (Week of Feb 11)
6. Community Wellness Classes: Registration Open! (begins Feb 25)

* OTHER:*

7. Adidas is looking for engineers!
8. GSC Graduate Student Survey about Internships
9. The Vagina Monologues (Feb 15)
10. Hack for Inclusion (Feb 22)
11. Every Voice Anti-Sexual Violence Summit (Feb 23)
*Did you know ... ?*

Interested in the sports industry? *Adidas *is looking for engineers and
they asked us to share a job opportunity with you! Find out more about it
below.
*Storied Women of MIT:*

*Maria Zuber*
(1958  - )



(click here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXH4EG4l8mw&index=8&list=PLMDhXpDKIzBKp45uWQBQ6ugi7Krkkls8i>
to
see video about her)
*GW at MIT event details*
*1. GW at MIT: Apply to the next GW at MIT Executive Board 2019!*

*When: *Now!
*Apply: *here <https://goo.gl/forms/MkU1jsTEQp0nBRXy2>


*Interested in being more involved in GWAMIT? *Have you attended or helped
plan a past GWAMIT activity, and would you like to become a member of the
Executive Board? Would you like to be active in supporting graduate women
and engaging with the Institute?

*Apply now for a GWAMIT Executive Board position!* Some of the positions
will start immediately while others include shadowing this semester and
then joining officially at the end of April. See the application for
details on open positions. No prior experience with GWAMIT required!

Before applying, please take a look at our website (http://www.gwamit.org/),
and email gwamit-exec at mit.edu
<gwamit-exec at mit.edu?subject=Application%20GW%40MIT%20Exec%20Board> if you
have any questions. Once you apply, email us to schedule a brief, 1:1
interview with a current Executive Board member.

*2. GW at MIT: Galentine's Day!*

*When: *February 13th, 2-4pm
*Where:* TBD
*RSVP:  *here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/galentines-day-with-gwmit-tickets-56012477829>




Welcome back, GW at MIT! Join us for a *creative and **colorful** Galentine’s
Day celebration*! We’ll have water marble nail decorating (fancyyy!) and
cookie decorating (yumm) supplies, and coffee and hot chocolate of course!

This is a great opportunity to get to know our current board, and learn
about our open positions. Bring your friends!
*3. WGS: Amanda Seales - Smart, Funny and Black*

*When: *Friday, February 22 at 8pm
*Where:* Little Kresge Theatre W16-035
*Website: *web <https://smartfunnyandblack.com/>
*Tickets:* web <https://mit.universitytickets.com/w/default.aspx>


Comedian, actress, writer, producer, and more, Amanda Seales doesn’t just
make you laugh, she makes change!

With an uncanny knack for taking serious topics (racism, rape culture,
sexism, police brutality, etc.) and with humor, making them relatable and
interesting, she combines intellectual wit, silliness, and a pop culture
obsession to create her unique style of smart funny content for the stage
and screens.

Along with performing stand up across the globe, and touring colleges doing
comedic lectures, this former MTV VJ with a master’s in African American
studies from Columbia University is a series regular as Tiffany on, HBO’s
“Insecure”, guest starred on, “Blackish, has performed stand up on “Late
Night with Seth Meyers”, and opened for Chris Rock, is creator/host of the
hit live music comedy game show experience, “Smart Funny & Black”, speaks
truth to change via her wildly popular Instagram, and weekly podcast,
“Small Doses”, which will have an accompanying book releasing Fall 2019 via
Abrams Books.

A Jedi Khaleesi with a patronus that’s a Black Panther with wings, Amanda
Seales continues to keep audiences laughing, thinking, and living in their
truth!
*4. NE GWiSE Annual Spring to Action!*

*Title: *Roles and Relationships: A Summit on Mentorship in Grad School and
Beyond
*Date: *Saturday, April 6th
*Location: *Harvard University
*RSVP:* Coming soon

Sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyPostBr53ZRX6SI4A7nzUQAqErIH0FURhW4tHKweQ4kh0gw/viewform>to
help us on the planning committees! This is a great opportunity to get some
event planning and leadership experience, get to see how we work as a
group, and make some awesome contacts across New England!



NE GWiSE is having its second annual Spring to Action event! This year it
is called "Roles and Relationships: A Summit on Mentorship in Grad School
and Beyond" and will be hosted by Harvard University. The goals are to help
schools identify different types of mentoring-related programs they can
implement, give them tools/resources to start them, help them improve
current programming, and decide how to measure their program's impact.

The day will include an inspiring keynote speaker, an exciting panel of
mentees talking about their experiences, a mixture of workshops, and an
optional mocktail hour for networking and socializing!
*Wellness event details*
*5. MIT Recreation Group Exercise Demo Week*

*When: *Week of February 11th
*Where:* Wang Fitness Center, Z-Center



The week of February 11th MIT Recreation Group exercise is for free!

It is a great opportunity to try some of their classes (pilates, yoga,
cycling, bootcamp...) and meet new people!

Download their app and book a class up to 48h in advance!
*6. Community Wellness Classes: Registration Open! *


Community Wellness <https://medical.mit.edu/services/community-wellness>
offers a wide range of classes on a number of topics to help improve the
quality of life for members of the MIT community. Classes are small,
suitable for all levels of experience, and offered in a friendly, welcoming
atmosphere with knowledgeable instructors.

This session of classes begin the week of Feb. 25.

Beginning in 2019, certain classes may be eligible for the Blue Cross Blue
Shield $150 fitness reimbursement or $150 weight-loss reimbursement
<https://myblue.bluecrossma.com/health-plan/fitness-reimbursement-weight-loss>
available to members of employee-offered MIT health plans. To find out if a
particular class qualifies, call the BCBS MA phone number on the back on
your Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance card. No classes prior to January 1,
2019 are eligible.
*Other*
*7. Adidas is looking for engineers!*

*Application link:* link
<https://jobs.adidas-group.com/job/Senior-Mechanical-Engineer/507071101/?locale=en_US>



Are you a high-performing Engineer who wants to go ‘all in’ and apply your
skills towards innovating high-performance sports product?  Do you want to
help shape the future of sport by helping to shape the way we make product?
Are you interested in providing the consumers of the future a new way to
experience the adidas brand through your technical expertise?  Does
applying the latest material and process innovations on a fast time to
market excite you?  Have you ever dreamed about applying cutting edge
engineering to create high level sport products for yourself, for your
friends, or the world’s top athletes?

The *adidas** FUTURE *team is currently looking for highly motivated and
enthusiastic engineers wanting to join us as we revolutionise the industry.
Through an exciting new brand initiative we want to hire the best talents
to join our high performing team in our effort to disrupt the way we
manufacture, develop and communicate our product. The adidas FUTURE team is
a collaborative group of dedicated teams focused on footwear, apparel,
hardware and manufacturing projects, driven to create the best for the
athlete. As a FUTURE team member you will become an active player in the
adidas brand and will experience a unique opportunity to apply your
engineering competences towards advanced company projects.

*More information in the application link.*
*8. GSC Graduate Student Survey about Internships*

*What:* Graduate Student Survey on Internships
*When:* Now!
*Link: *http://bit.ly/MITintern



The Graduate Student Council (GSC) and the Committee on Student Career
Exploration and Services need your help in gathering data on graduate
student interest in internships and the barriers that students face in
pursuing them. This data is very valuable to the GSC and will help inform
their advocacy for more career development opportunities & resources for
graduate students. It would be great if you could take out a few minutes to
fill out the survey.

*Please follow this link to the Survey:* http://bit.ly/MITintern

The survey is voluntary and we anticipate it will take you 10-15 minutes.
The data will be treated as confidential and the results of any research or
analysis using the data will be presented in a way that individual
respondents cannot be identified.

Your feedback will greatly help us in our endeavor and enable us to effect
changes that can facilitate career exploration for graduate students at MIT.

By participating in the survey, you will have the option to be entered into
a raffle to win $25 in Tech Cash (20 winners will be selected).
*9. The Vagina Monologues*

*When: *Friday, February 15th and 16th at 7.30 pm. February 17th at 2pm.
*Where:* 32-123
*Tickets: *link <https://mit.universitytickets.com/w/default.aspx>
*Questions: *email <vagina-exec at mit.edu>  <vagina-exec at mit.edu>


Stop Our Silence (SOS) organizes and runs The Vagina Monologues along with
other activism and performance-oriented activities throughout the year. The
Vagina Monologues is a yearly production that centers the stories of real
women, as compiled by Eve Ensler, and is put on by an all female and
non-binary cast. In order to better include the voices of all women, we
invite anyone who wants to write and perform their own piece as a part of
the show.

Whether you're interested in activism, looking for an outlet to express
gender-related frustration, or just want to say 'Cunt!' onstage, The Vagina
Monologues is happy to have you!

Find more information at http://vagina.mit.edu/.

All proceeds will benefit the Women's Center in Cambridge and Boston Area
Rape Crisis Center (BARCC)!

*10. Hack for Inclusion*

*When: *Friday, February 22 at 11 AM to Saturday, February 23 at 8 PM
*Where:* MIT Media Lab (75 Amherst Street Cambridge, MA 02139)
*Contact:* breakingthemoldmit at gmail.com
*URL: *link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-for-inclusion-tickets-52842264636>




Hack for Inclusion brings together the MIT and Boston communities to
build s*olutions
that address problems related to bias, diversity and inclusion.*

Participants will receive the full list of challenges in January.
Participants will rank their preferences and be sorted into teams.

Candi Castleberry Singleton, VP of Intersectionality, Culture, and
Diversity at TWITTER will give the keynote address.


PREMIUM SPONSORS:
Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, eBay, Microsoft, MIT Sloan Student
Life, Novartis, SWIM, Wayfair


*Participants pay $20 to hold their spot via Eventbrite.This will be
refunded upon attendance. All meals are included.*

*11. Every Voice Anti-Sexual Violence Summit *

*When: *Saturday, February 23rd
*Where:* Harvard Law School (Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Ave,
Cambridge)
*RSVP: *here <https://www.facebook.com/events/293516634692635/>




*Every Voice is a non-profit working to end sexual violence on college
campuses in Massachusetts.* We are current students and young alumni
working towards ending sexual violence on state campuses.

We're primarily focused on advocacy, and pushing for the passing of vital
anti-sexual violence legislation in the state government. Currently, we're
pushing for sexual assault climate surveys on all Massachusetts campuses,
surveys that will reveal the prevalence of sexual violence at each school.
It is a single step in a complex process, but we believe that this
transparency is an extremely important part of combating this issue.

Every Voice will be hosting a Summit at the Harvard Law School on February
23rd, where students from various different Massachusetts campuses will
learn exactly how they can get involved in pushing for this and other
legislative changes.

What is the Summit?
The Summit will be a student-centered & action-focused tool to build,
galvanize, and mobilize an intercollegiate network of activists for passing
long-overdue legislation at the statehouse, while building a community of
survivors and allies committed to taking action and learning together.

Attendees will:
•    be briefed on the law & legislative priorities
•    develop advocacy skills to use from campus to Congress
•    hear from experienced perspectives in the field
•    gain the tools needed for holding institutions accountable.

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