[UA] The Byte - December 7th, 2015

[Sophia Liu]

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Click below for the Weekly Video  <https://vimeo.com/148051548#t=0s>Byte
<https://vimeo.com/147259640> by the UA Marketing Committee (featuring an
important message from a special guest!!!!!!!)
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Hello Undergraduates,

*LAST WEEK OF CLASSES!* Congratulations, you made it through and we're in
the home stretch! As a reminder, you have end-of-semester rights, which
Corinn, the UA Education Chair (ua-education-chairs at mit.edu), emailed out
about earlier:
*For subjects with a final exams:* no test may be given and no assignment,
term paper or oral presentation shall fall due after this date.
*For subjects with no final exam: *no test may be given and at most one
assignment may fall due from December 4th to the end of the last scheduled
class period!

*Interesting piece of history of the week *from our UA History Chair,
Allan Sadun
 (ua-history at mit.edu; add yourself to the ua-history-interest at mit.edu mailing
list here <https://groups.mit.edu/webmoira/list/ua-history-interest> if
you'd like to receive more):

*"Rafael Reif is fond of this Winterfest thing - this is the
<http://institute-events.mit.edu/events/institute-events/2013/winterfest-2013>
third
<http://institute-events.mit.edu/events/institute-events/2014/winterfest-2014>
time
<http://institute-events.mit.edu/events/institute-events/2015/winterfest-2015>
he's
had it, as far as I can google. You might remember last year we had Black
Lives Matter protesters outside Winterfest.*


*(Not to be confused with the UA's Winterfest, which I hear was a couple
days ago.)*



*Institute Events are a fun office. You can look at all the things they
have planned for the MIT 2016 celebration (a 100th anniversary of our move
to Cambridge) on their website
<http://institute-events.mit.edu/information-center/MIT2016>.*


*The Institute event that I'm remembering right now is the Infinite Buffet,
which happened twice - once in 1997
<http://tech.mit.edu/V117/N60/infinite.60n.html>, and once in 2001
<http://news.mit.edu/2001/buffet-1031>. They didn't have
the recently-dedicated
<http://news.mit.edu/2014/mit-community-celebrates-the-life-of-charles-m-vest-0307>
Charles
Vest Student Street (i.e. the ground floor of Stata) to fill with free food
- they didn't even have Stata yet! - so they filled the Infinite Corridor
instead!*
*A friend who was an undergrad then says that it was at the 1997 Infinite
Buffet that he suggested to President Vest that he re-create the office of
Chancellor, which until 1998
<https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/institute/offices/office-of-the-mit-chancellor/>
had
been an intermittent, ad-hoc, if-the-president-wants-there-to-be-one
position. Anyone got any ideas to throw at Reif at Winterfest?"*


This is a link
<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=04g3puac6u0p6t7nrsari3h5j8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York>
 to subscribe to the Google Calendar with all the events on The Byte, and
if you'd like to see your events in this email next week, add them here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zVbtXskaeNY51cfNeJp0cCdbjlrkSq07OWTTqv-2X3s/viewform>
. Around campus, here's a list of the events going on, with more details
attached*:*

   - *MIT Asian Dance Team: MIT Asian Dance Team Presents: Dawn*
   - *MIT Asian Dance Team: MIT Asian Dance Team Presents: Dawn*
   - *MIT Asian Dance Team: MIT Asian Dance Team Presents: Dawn*
   - *The Logarhythms: EXPEN$IVE: A Free Concert*
   - *SaveTFP: Waffle Night!*
   - *Live Music Connection: Unstoppable - A concert featuring Love & a
   Sandwich*
   - *SAO: LeaderShape    *

Good luck with projects and exams! You can do it!!
Sophia Liu
Vice President of the Undergraduate Association
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