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Summary
| Saturday, Nov 7, 1-5pm: |
Trip to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
| Saturday, Nov 7, 2-7pm: |
Cook and serve a meal for homeless people |
| Saturday, Nov 7, 9-10pm: |
Jazz outing to Cafe Luna |
| Monday, Nov 9, 5:30-8pm: |
Water Purification Plant Tour |
| Wednesday, Nov 11, 9-10pm: |
Vietnamese Cultural Coffee Hour |
| Wednesday, Nov 11, 9-10pm: |
Coffee Hour |
| Monday, Nov 16, 6-8:30pm: |
Sidney Pacific Lecture Series: Scientific Imagery |
| Wednesday, Nov 18, 9-10pm: |
Coffee Hour |
| Saturday, Nov 21, 8-10pm: |
SP Resident Concert |
External events and announcements:
Saturday, Nov 7, 10am-4pm: Graduate Leadership Evaluation Workshop
Tuesday, Nov 10, 10am-4:30pm: 9Tailors Custom Dress shirts @ MIT!
Tuesday, Nov 17, 6-7:30pm: Alumni Dinner Series
Upcoming Events
1. Trip to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
| | Tour the century-old Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts, as well as the courtyard full of flowers. Trip is FREE and transportation by T will be subsidized. |
Homepage of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
E-mail: sp-arts-chair
| | Click here to RSVP | |
2. Cook and serve a meal for homeless people
Saturday, Nov 7, 2-7pm, Multipurpose room kitchen. |
Celebrate Thanksgiving by helping to cook and serve a meal for the men and women at CASPAR, a local homeless shelter.
2-5 pm Cook food in S-P Multipurpose Room Kitchen,
5-7 pm Serve food at CASPAR, 240 Albany St.
7-9 pm Clean S-P Kitchen
Questions? Contact sp-outreach-chair@mit.edu |
E-mail: sp-outreach-chair
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3. Jazz outing to Cafe Luna
Saturday, Nov 7, 9-10pm, Cafe Luna. |
| Join Sidney-Pacific residents in an outing to hear jazz at one of Central Square's best music venues! Cafe Luna is right up the street from SidPac and very convenient. Tickets and refreshments will be subsidized. Please RSVP to sp-music-chair@mit.edu by November 1 if you are interested in attending. We will meet in the lobby at 9 PM. |
E-mail: sp-music-chair
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4. Water Purification Plant Tour
Monday, Nov 9, 5:30-8pm, 250 Fresh Pond Parkway. |
Water is an extremely important resource for all living creatures. This tour will explain how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is brought to Fresh Pond and purified into drinking water. A staff member of the Cambridge Water Department will describe the process, answer our questions, and give us a tour of the building.
We will meet in the SP lobby and take public transportation to get to the plant. The tour goes on from 6 to 7:30 PM. RSVPs required! |
E-mail: sp-environment-chair
| | Click here to RSVP | |
5. Vietnamese Cultural Coffee Hour
Wednesday, Nov 11, 9-10pm, SP Multipurpose Hall. |
| We are happy to bring the Vietnamese theme to the series of Cultural Coffee Hours to SP residents. Some traditional Vietnamese snacks, dinks and music will be served. |
E-mail: sp-cultural-chair
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6. Coffee Hour
Wednesday, Nov 11, 9-10pm, SP Multipurpose Room. |
Eat yummy snacks, fruit, and vegetables; enjoy coffee, tea, or juice with your friends; and take a break from the mundane at Coffee Hour this week.
Do something good for the environment- Instead of using paper products, bring your own reusable mug! |
E-mail:
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7. Sidney Pacific Lecture Series: Scientific Imagery
Monday, Nov 16, 6-8:30pm, Multi-Purpose Room. |
| Next lecture in the Sidney Pacific Lecture Series. Harvard & MIT affiliated photographer & scientist Felice Frankel will be speaking about the power of scientific imagery in communication. See web.mit.edu/felicef for more information on Ms. Frankel. More... |
E-mail: sp-cosi-chair
| | Click here to RSVP | |
8. Coffee Hour
Wednesday, Nov 18, 9-10pm, SP Multipurpose Room. |
Eat yummy snacks, fruit, and vegetables; enjoy coffee, tea, or juice with your friends; and take a break from the mundane at Coffee Hour this week.
Do something good for the environment- Instead of using paper products, bring your own reusable mug! |
E-mail:
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9. SP Resident Concert
Saturday, Nov 21, 8-10pm, SP Multipurpose Room. |
| Musicians of Sidney-Pacific, come forward! We want to hear you at the resident concert which will be held on Saturday, November 21 at 8 P.M. here. This is an opportunity for all residents to showcase their talent and share it with each other. If you are interested in performing, please email sp-music-chair@mit.edu with a description of your act. It should be no more than 10 minutes. |
E-mail: sp-music-chair
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Community Notices
1. Green tip of the week: Use \"Bright Colors\" setting
| | Save energy when doing laundry by using the "Bright Colors" setting on the washer. Also, remove clothes from the dryer right when they dry (~30 minutes) instead of leaving them in for the full hour. These actions will help your clothes last longer, too! |
More green tips
E-mail: sp-environment-chair
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2. Report computing problems: Contact the RCCs
| | Our building-level connectivity problems seem to have subsided, but if you're still having trouble with your internet connection, we need to know in order to help. Your first stop should be the RCC (Residential Computing Consultant) help page at rcc.mit.edu. Keep in mind that the more information you can provide about the problem, the more efficiently they'll be able to track it down. |
RCC help page
E-mail: sp-hallchair
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3. Sidney Pacific Art Exhibition
| Attention, talented artists at SidPac! Are you a painter? Photographer? Graphic designer or calligrapher? Are you interested in showcasing your masterpieces at the S-P gallery? Now it’s the time! You are invited to participate in Lens and Strokes—Sidney Pacific Resident Art Exhibition. Selected works will be displayed by early November.
Contact sp-arts-chair@mit.edu right now to submit your artwork!
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E-mail: sp-arts-chair
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4. Energy Ideas Competition at SP
| | Have an idea for reducing the energy consumption at SP? Want to see it implemented and win a prize? Then submit a detailed write-up of your idea to sp-environment-chair@mit.edu without delay! The top 3 ideas will be presented at Coffee Hour, be considered for implementation in the dorm and their authors will receive gift certificates at a business of their choice! You will also help save money on one of SP's biggest expenditures! The deadline for submission is midnight on November 7, 2009. |
E-mail: sp-environment-chair
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Outside Events and Notices
1. Graduate Leadership Evaluation Workshop
Saturday, Nov 7, 10am-4pm, Eastgate Penthouse. |
The workshop is designed for both experienced and aspiring leaders. Participants will complete the DiSC
self-assessment tool, followed by a series of activities and discussions.
*Materials for the workshop are included in the registration fee, and are heavily subsidized* by the Student Activities Office (SAO), Residential Life
Programs, and the Graduate Student Council (GSC). Lunch will be provided.
Please register at: http://sao.mit.edu/tickets/2009/legs-workshop More... |
Sign up here
E-mail: ngu
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2. 9Tailors Custom Dress shirts @ MIT!
Tuesday, Nov 10, 10am-4:30pm, Student Center 3rd Floor. |
9tailors is bringing Boston's premier custom tailoring service to the MIT Campus!
9tailors is the premier online custom tailor that specializes in making custom made dress shirts for students and young professionals. We are a convenient, affordable and creative alternative to traditional retailers and custom tailors. More... |
Facebook Event
E-mail: wenliu
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3. Alumni Dinner Series
Tuesday, Nov 17, 6-7:30pm, Morss Hall (1st floor of Walker Memorial). |
Come enjoy a delicious dinner and drinks with MIT alumnus and President
& CEO of MicroCHIPS, Inc. (John T. Santini, Jr., Ph.D.) http://www.mchips.com/. John will share his experiences and lessons learned while taking a cutting edge technology from a whiteboard concept at MIT to products in development at a growing, venture-backed company.
The Grad Rat will be present, taking orders and raffling off a new iPod Nano. Tickets are only $2 and can be purchased at http://gsc.mit.edu . |
E-mail: gsc-ac
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4. The Wellness Shuttle to Trader Joes
| The MIT Parking and Transportation Office will once again operate the Wellness Shuttle to transport MIT students to and from Trader Joe’s and the Whole Foods Market. This service will operate on the Saturdays listed below:
November 7, 14, 21, 28 ;
December 5, 12 ;
January 9, 16, 23, 30 ;
February 6, 13, 20, 27 ;
March 6, 13, 27.
Please visit the Parking and Transportation website http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/shuttles/grocery.html to view the shuttle schedule. |
E-mail: lrbrutti
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