Fireside chat with Tang Tan, OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer, former Apple VP of iPhone Product Design, and MIT Course 2 alum.

Create solutions for a better future! Explore the intersection of art and social entrepreneurship with IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge and the Arts Startup Incubator. Hear from program managers about each one’s offerings—funding, mentorship, workshops, and stakeholder engagement—while you eat snacks and meet other students with creative ideas for positive change.MIT alum Blake Blaze will share about his experience participating in both programs with two different ventures: Front Row Fantasy, an interactive music discovery platform for up-and-coming artists, and SamWise, a personalized education platform for incarcerated students.October 16, 2025 5–6:15pm | E38-579 | iHQ Fifth Floor

This talk traces the political power of motherhood and childrearing in Arabic thought between 1850 and 1939. It shows how writers used ideas about childrearing (tarbiya in Arabic) to address key issues in modern social thought, such as freedom, labor, and democracy. While debates about childrearing in Arabic led to expansions in girls' education and women writers' authority, they also attached the fate of nations to women's unwaged labor in the home. Highlighting Arab women's writing offers a new way to think about the devaluation of social reproduction under capitalism, the stubborn maleness of the liberal subject, and why the idea of embodied, binary gender difference has proven so difficult to overcome.

Silent Meditation in the Chapel on Thursdays 6-8pm, open to everyone in the MIT Community. Some sessions include Guided Meditation at 6:30pm.

All are welcome to join our visiting monks and MIT Prajnopaya - the Buddhist Community for Prayers for Healing and Peace. A part of Healing the Divide: Unity, Compassion & Flourishing, 2025 Mandala @ MIT.Please bring an MIT i.d. or govt-issued i.d. for access.

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