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- Oct 16–16MIT Fall Milonga (MIT Tango Club)MIT Tango Club invites you to our Fall Milonga! Join us in the iconic Sala de Puerto Rico, and enjoy light snacks and refreshments while dancing to the music of DJ Nanying! Dress up and experience Argentine Tango at its finest.Tickets must be purchase online: https://cglink.me/2cy/r916484$5 MIT Students $10 Non-MIT Students $10 MIT Community (Alumni, Staff, Affiliates) $25 GeneralLocation: MIT Stratton Student Center, Sala de Puerto Rico (W20-202), 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/MpghbEYgTSt2i6F89)MIT Tango Club has been promoting Argentine Tango at MIT for nearly 25 years. For more information, see our website: https://sites.google.com/site/mittangoclub/home
- Oct 16–16Vincent Anioke, ’17, Reads from “Perfect Little Angels”Vincent Anioke, ’17, returns to MIT to read from his book of short stories, Perfect Little Angels, published to acclaim last year by Arsenal Pulp Press.Set in both Nigeria and Canada, these stunning stories have been praised for their candor, tenderness, and deep humanity, and described as “brilliant and harrowing.” Through masterful writing, Anioke evokes complex and unforgettable characters who “grapple with the harsh consequences of unforgiving traditions and defiant desires”.Anioke was born and raised in Nigeria, now lives in Canada, and works as a software engineer at Google. His short stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Split Lip Magazine, Carve, and Pithead Chapel. He was the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize Winner and was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.At MIT, Anioke was an Admissions blogger and Course 6 major. He won numerous writing prizes, including CMS/W’s Robert A. Boit Prize for short stories, Boit Manuscript Prizes for essays and fiction, the King Prize for Science Fiction Writing, and the Louis Kampf Writing Prize in Women’s & Gender Studies.
- Oct 17All dayExhibit NOW in IMES E25-310, from May 23 onward! Stop by to visit and learn more!
- Oct 17All dayHealing the Divide: Compassion, Unity & Flourishing2025 Mandala @ MITCo-sponsored by MIT Prajnopaya, Buddhist Student Club, Simmons Hall
- Oct 171:00 AMWomen's Tennis vs. ITA CupTime:Location: Rome, GA / Berry College
- Oct 179:00 AMBuild Up Healthy Writing Habits with Writing Together Online (Challenge 1)Writing Together Online offers the structured writing time to help you stay focused and productive during the busy fall months. Join our daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of scholars who connect online, set realistic goals, and write together in the spirit of accountability and camaraderie. We offer writing sessions every workday, Monday through Friday. The program is open to all MIT students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and affiliates who are working on papers, proposals, thesis/dissertation chapters, application materials, and other writing projects.Please register for any number of sessions:Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00–10:30am (EST) Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00–9:30am and 9:30-11:00am (EST)For more information and to register, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and join with colleagues and friends. MIT Students and postdocs who attend at least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a gift-card raffle.