<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_iejesrvd0_14fca08d6221a0bb" width="111" height="111" class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hello Undergraduates,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Happy Monday! (And if you're already looking forward to the weekend, remember this weekend is Family Weekend, so consider spending time with or giving a call to people that you love!)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">While all of our committees recruit year round, I'd like to highlight a few now: Alumni Affairs and Involvement are new committees, and Technology Systems Group is a committee that's always looking for new ideas on how to improve MIT's tech and is open to new projects. Because they're growing committees, you would be able to shape how they function and what they work on. The respective chairs, Keertan Kini (<a href="mailto:krkini16@mit.edu" target="_blank">krkini16@mit.edu</a>), and Adam Theriault-Shay (<a href="mailto:ua-involvement-chairs@mit.edu" target="_blank">ua-involvement-chairs@mit.edu</a>), and Ariel Jacobs (<a href="mailto:ua-tsg-chairs@mit.edu" target="_blank">ua-tsg-chairs@mit.edu</a>), are incredibly excited! Feel free to email them asking any questions you may have, and apply for any UA committee <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nZuFyXmhQ6Gxe_t61wUtrq8AVHTobnH8luVRu5p2aCc/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">here</a>!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Interesting piece of history of the week </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">from our UA </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">History</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Chair, Allan Sadun (</span><a href="mailto:ua-history@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ua-history@mit.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">; add yourself to the </span><a href="mailto:ua-history-interest@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">ua-history-interest@mit.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> mailing list </span><a href="https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/ua-history-interest" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">here</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> if you'd like to receive more):</span><b><br></b></div><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><i><br></i></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>"In May 2012, Reif was announced to be MIT's next president. The UA and the GSC formed an eight-person committee, the "Presidential Transition Advisory Cabinet", for advising Reif and helping him transition into the role of president. In their words, "PTAC would focus on identifying salient present and future campus issues and proposing constructive paths forward".</i></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><br style="font-size:12.8px"></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:12.8px">Well, the only way MIT identifies or proposes anything properly is by spending a year carefully writing a quality report, and PTAC was no different. You can read what they concluded (or the 9-page executive summary) at </span><a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N32/ptac/PTAC-Public-Report-2013.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N32/ptac/PTAC-Public-Report-2013.pdf</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Divided into "Educational Experience", "Community", and "Residential Campus" sections, they have insightful suggestions on topics ranging through advising, student-administrator communication, "small families", mental health, and more. PTAC went on to become PAC, the Presidential Advisory Cabinet, which exists to this day."</span></i></div></blockquote><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is a</span><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=04g3puac6u0p6t7nrsari3h5j8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px"> link</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> to<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:bold">subscribe</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:bold"> to the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:bold">Google</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:bold">Calendar with all the events on The Byte, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">and if you'd like to see your events in this email next week, add</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> them <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zVbtXskaeNY51cfNeJp0cCdbjlrkSq07OWTTqv-2X3s/viewform" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Around campus, here's a list of the events going on, with more details below</span><b style="font-size:12.8px">:</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">Active Minds: Understanding Depression</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#0b5394"><b>StartLabs: Venture Capital 101 and Pitching</b></font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">Colombian Association of MIT: Colombian Arepa Marathon</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">MAES: MAES GBM with Microsoft</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">Roadkill Buffet: Roadkill Buffet presents "Bring Your Own Shoes"</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">SaveTFP: S'mores Night</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">LSC: Rocky Horror Picture Show</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">Latino Cultural Center: Cena a las Seis</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">LSC: Charade Screening</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">Experimental Theater Company: Now Then Again</font></b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font color="#0b5394">SaveTFP: Spooky Skate!</font></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Have a great week,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sophia Liu</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999">Vice President of the Undergraduate Association</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">--</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:12.8px">Want to work on a project to help undergraduates? Join the UA </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nZuFyXmhQ6Gxe_t61wUtrq8AVHTobnH8luVRu5p2aCc/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">here</a><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:12.8px">!</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#999999">Have feedback for the UA? Let us know <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fRB2Grg4ryaI3gQ7r2RiSXw0YfE1aMBd4zGOCjd-drU/viewform" target="_blank">here</a>!</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">--</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Wednesday, 10/21</span></b></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Active Minds <a href="mailto:activeminds-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">activeminds-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Understanding Depression (Student Center (Twenty Chimneys))<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> Professor John Gabrieli (of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department) will speak for 30 min. He will cover brain differences in depression, how they are altered by treatment, and how imaging might contribute to ID and treatment. Q&A to follow.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes.</span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">StartLabs <a href="mailto:startlabs-management@mit.edu" target="_blank">startlabs-management@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 7:00:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Venture Capital 101 and Pitching (6-104)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> Come learn from Venture Capitalists about what they expect in a startup pitch and investments. Food will be provided!<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes.</span><span style="font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Friday, 10/23</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Colombian Association of MIT <a href="mailto:colombians-officers@mit.edu" target="_blank">colombians-officers@mit.edu</a> </span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">12:01:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Colombian Arepa Marathon (Kresge BBQ Pits)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Colombian Association of MIT would like to invite you to eat and learn about different kinds of arepas in our unique Arepa Marathon!<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes. </span><span style="font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">MAES <a href="mailto:maes-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">maes-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 5:45:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">MAES GBM with Microsoft (Latino Cultural Center (Basement of Student Center))<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> Join us for an intimate networking opportunity with Microsoft. Bring your resume! Follow MIT MAES on Facebook for info on future networking opportunities.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Roadkill Buffet <a href="mailto:edenmark@mit.edu" target="_blank">edenmark@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 8:00:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Roadkill Buffet presents "Bring Your Own Shoes" (34-101)<br></span></p></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> FREE IMPROV COMEDY SHOW!! Come enjoy lots of laughs and silliness for our first show of the year.</span></p></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:No.</span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">SaveTFP <a href="mailto:savetfp@mit.edu" target="_blank">savetfp@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 9:00:00 PM - 11:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">S'mores Night (BC barbecue pits)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> Marshmallows. Chocolate. Graham crackers. Warm up by roasting s'mores with us at the BC barbecue pits. Vegan options also provided.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes. </span><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"><br></span></u></p><p><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"><u>LSC</u> <a href="mailto:lsc@mit.edu" target="_blank">lsc@mit.edu</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 11:59:00 PM - 2:00:00 AM</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Rocky Horror Picture Show (26-100)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Midnight (Early Morning!) Double Feature (Rocky Horror!) Picture Show... with live Full Body Cast (the same group that performs at AMC Boston!)<br> And remember...<br> it's just a hop to the left...<br> and then a step to the right...<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:No. <br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:13pt"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Saturday, 10/24<br></span></b><span style="font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Latino Cultural Center <a href="mailto:lcc-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">lcc-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 6:00:00 PM - 9:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Cena a las Seis (Walker Memorial)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The MIT LCC and its organizations want invite you to “Dinner at Six” during Family Weekend for a semi-formal evening of Latin cuisine, student performances and presentations.Join us for this wonderful cultural night!<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes.</span></p><p><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">LSC <a href="mailto:lsc@mit.edu" target="_blank">lsc@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 8:00:00 PM - 10:00:00 PM</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Charade Screening (26-100)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> See Charade, a classic romantic thriller starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, on 35mm film at MIT's very own LSC Theatre.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. Suggested $4 donation to support film at MIT</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Thursday, 10/29</span></b></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Experimental Theater Company <a href="mailto:etc-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">etc-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 7:30:00 PM - 10:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Now Then Again (Rehearsal Room A in Kresge Auditorium)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Experimental Theater Company, MIT's newest student-run theater group, is presenting our first ever performance! Now Then Again is a romantic comedy with a brain–a time-bending love story between two physicists.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:No. <br></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Friday, 10/30</span></b></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Experimental Theater Company <a href="mailto:etc-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">etc-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 7:30:00 PM - 10:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Now Then Again (Rehearsal Room A in Kresge Auditorium)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Experimental Theater Company, MIT's newest student-run theater group, is presenting our first ever performance! Now Then Again is a romantic comedy with a brain–a time-bending love story between two physicists.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"><br>Food?:No.</span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">SaveTFP <a href="mailto:savetfp@mit.edu" target="_blank">savetfp@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 8:00:00 PM - 12:00:00 AM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Spooky Skate! (Johnson Ice Rink, Zesiger Center)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> Free ice skating, pizza, pumpkin painting, sugar cookie decorating, and other crafts! Come zip around Johnson Ice Rink in your costume if you wish and enter our costume contest to win limited edition Spooky Skate t-shirts!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:Yes.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';color:black">Saturday, 10/31</span></b><span style="font-family:'CMU Sans Serif';font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Experimental Theater Company <a href="mailto:etc-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">etc-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 2:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Now Then Again (Rehearsal Room A in Kresge Auditorium)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Experimental Theater Company, MIT's newest student-run theater group, is presenting our first ever performance! Now Then Again is a romantic comedy with a brain–a time-bending love story between two physicists.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:No. <br></span></p><p><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Experimental Theater Company <a href="mailto:etc-exec@mit.edu" target="_blank">etc-exec@mit.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> 7:30:00 PM - 10:00:00 PM<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Now Then Again (Rehearsal Room A in Kresge Auditorium)<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'"> The Experimental Theater Company, MIT's newest student-run theater group, is presenting our first ever performance! Now Then Again is a romantic comedy with a brain–a time-bending love story between two physicists.<br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Free?:Yes. <br></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'CMU Sans Serif'">Food?:No. </span></p></div></div>
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