[GSC-HCA-Offcampus] Off-campus events and announcements

Sat Apr 6 10:49:32 EDT 2013

Dear fellow off-campus graduate students,

Wishing you a happy spring! Luke and I have some events and announcements
for you -- if you have a suggestion for an event, or an issue regarding off-
campus life please let us know. Hope to see you at an event soon!

Your off-campus co-chairs,
Kelsey & Luke

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1. Watch Game of Thrones Season 3!, Every Sunday, 8:45pm - 10pm
2. Sidney Pacific  April Brunch, Sunday, 4/7/13 12-1PM
3. Harvard+MIT Speed Dating, Sunday, April 7, 6pm-8pm
4. GSC free hot chocolate and snacks, Wed, April 3rd, 7:30-8:30 PM
5. Comedy Night at the Thirsty Ear Pub, Tues, April 9th, 7:30pm. Show
starts at 8
6. The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation: multimedia lecture with live
jazz combo at Sidney Pacific, Wed, April 10, 6:30-7:30pm
7. Lunch at the Kebab Factory: The Future of US Manufacturing?, Saturday,
April 20th, 12:00pm
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1. Watch Game of Thrones Season 3!
When: Every Sunday, 8:45pm - 10pm
Where: Thirsty Ear Pub (Ashdown House/NW35)
Contact: teec-officers at mit.edu
RSVP: N/A
Description: - Join us for Season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones!
- Presented by the Thirsty Ear Executive Committee (TEEC) and the Ashdown
House Executive Committee (AHEC)
- Sponsored by GradRat
- Feel free to bring food and snacks. We highly encourage sharing!
- 21+ w/ govt photo ID only. Please have ID ready to show at door.

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2. Sidney Pacific  April Brunch
When: Sunday, 4/7/13 12-1PM
Where: Sidney Pacific Multipurpose Room
Contact: sp-brunch-chair at mit.edu
RSVP: N/A
Description: Come down to the MP room for our April brunch, with delicious
free food and great company. Bring your own utensils and plates and help
keep SP green
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3. Harvard+MIT Speed Dating
When: Sunday, April 7, 6pm-8pm
Where: Queens Head Pub
Contact: gsc-ac at mit.edu
RSVP: http://gsc.mit.edu/2013/03/harvardmit-speed-dating/
Description: Queens Head Pub. 45 Quincy St  Cambridge, MA 02138.

(beneath Annenberg Hall and Sanders Theater)

$30 includes two drink tickets

This time around, Harvard and MIT Graduate Student Councils have decided to
partner with Room to Read, a non-profit dedicated to improving literacy for
children all over the world.  $10 of your ticket price will be donated to
the construction of a library in sub-Saharan Africa!  For more information
on Room to Read please visit http://www.roomtoread.org/AboutUs and/or see
below for a short description of this amazing program.
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4. GSC free hot chocolate and snacks
When: Wed, April 3rd, 7:30-8:30 PM
Where: Forbes cafe @ Stata
Contact: alamor at mit.edu
RSVP: N/A
Description: GSC proudly offers free snacks and hot chocolate at Stata once
again this Wednesday!

Feel free to stop by for free food and snacks, as well as an assortment of
games.

Hope to see you there!
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5. Comedy Night at the Thirsty Ear Pub
When: Tues, April 9th, 7:30pm. Show starts at 8
Where: Thirsty Ear Pub, Ashdown House (NW35)
Contact: TEEC <teec-officers at mit.edu>
RSVP: N/A
Description: - Join us for another Comedy Night. Featuring: Mikhail Han,
Kevin Harrington, Will Noonan, Anthony Scibelli. Headliner: Gary Petersen
- Free food and soft drinks!
- Presented by the Thirsty Ear Executive Committee (TEEC) Sponsored by the
GSC Funding Board, the Peter de Florez ’38 Humor Fund, and the GradRat
- 21+ govt ID required for entry. Please have ready to show at door.
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6. The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation: multimedia lecture with live
jazz combo at Sidney Pacific
When: Wed, April 10, 6:30-7:30pm
Where: Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence (70 Pacific St. Cambridge),
Multipurpose Room
Contact: sp-cosi-chair at mit.edu
RSVP:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fnntfWSSNOsHS6zEN3isGEVrzxT9EytbXwnsADtudDE/viewform?pli=1
Description: Join us for a multisensory, multimedia,
music-meets-neuroscience experience with TEDx speaker:

Professor Charles Limb
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music
Johns Hopkins University / School of Medicine

How do freestyle rappers create lyrics off the cuff?
How are musicians able to improvise on the spot?
What makes their brains tick?

Professor Charles Limb (MD) is a hearing specialist, surgeon, and lifelong
musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain. Dr.
Limb has spent more than a decade studying the brain activity of musicians
as they improvise.  Known for his brain-imaging studies of jazz musicians,
he has expanded his research into another musical genre that emphasizes
rhythm and improv: hip hop.  He and his team at Johns Hopkins have put
freestyle rappers into functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
machines to see what happens in their brains when they rhyme off the tops
of their heads.

His TEDx talk has been viewed more than 750,000 times online:
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv.html
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7. Lunch at the Kebab Factory: The Future of US Manufacturing?
When: Saturday, April 20th, 12:00pm
Where: The Kebab Factory, 414 Washington St, Somerville
Contact: dctanugi at mit.edu
RSVP: https://signup.mit.edu:444/signup.php?id=1150672451
Description: In the hope of renewing the economic competitiveness of
US-based manufacturing, please join us for lunch at the Kebab Factory,
quite possibly the tastiest Indian restaurant in the area and just across
the street from Dali.

Feel free to invite sign up with a +1! The reservation is limited to 15
people, who will be picked at (pseudo)random.*

Where: 414 Washington St, Somerville, MA 02143
When: Saturday, April 20th at 12:00pm

*Matlab is random enough for our purposes.
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