Composing Your Life: Exploring Self Through Photography and Writing
Holly Sweet, Graham Ramsay
Tue Jan 11, 01-02:30pm, 24-619
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2005
Limited to 16 participants.
Single session event
We will look at how photos of ourselves and our families can be used as tools to reflect on what we think about ourselves, and also gain understanding about how others might see us. Participants must bring two photos--one of their families and one of themselves--which depict participants involved in activities or events that are of personal significance. These images will be used for a short in-class writing exercise followed by group discussion. This IAP activity is based on one of the exercises from the ESG seminar SP240 which will run in spring 2005 and is particularly useful for students considering taking the seminar. For more information about SP240, visit http://web.mit.edu/esg-seminars.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Holly Sweet, 24-612, x3-7786, hbsweet@mit.edu
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ESG Musical Concert
Holly Sweet, Graham Ramsay
Fri Jan 21, 11am-12:00pm, 24-612
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
ESG will be hosting a musical concert for the entire MIT community. Staff, students, and alumni from ESG will perform a range of styles of music on different instruments (including the violin, piano, and bodhran), with lunch served after the concert.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Holly Sweet, 24-612, x3-7786, hbsweet@mit.edu
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Knitting and Crocheting for Beginners
Andrea Hawksley, Anisa Schardl
Thu Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, 02-04:00pm, 24-619
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Bring your own materials
We will teach basic knitting and crocheting and will help you with the first project of your choice. If you have questions about what materials you need to bring or any other questions, please email either of us. More advanced knitters and crocheters are welcome to join us, and possibly even learn a few things as well.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Andrea Hawksley, 24-612, x3-7787, hawksley@mit.edu
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Lego Robotics Competition
Colin Dillard
Thu Jan 13, 02-05:30pm, 24-618
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Missed out on the 2.70 lottery? Want to prepare for next year? Come to ESG's intensive one-time Lego Robotics Competition. Participants will be given three hours to build a Lego robot to complete a simple challenge. Experienced builders and beginners equally welcome.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Colin Dillard, 24-612, dillard@mit.edu
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Anna Jaffe
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 12:30-02:00pm, 24-619
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 28-Jan-2005
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: a passion for clairvoyance and common sense
We will examine how our own mental models limit our capacity to see problems as the opportunity they may be. We will begin by examining a series of questons believed to stand without answer, and then work our way through the four principles of natural capitalism. We will then discuss recent application of similar ideas. The series will end with a vision of where and how we hope to inspire change and how this passion can be passed on to others. Class structure is designed to integrate everyone interested in this topic from those deeply engrossed to those taking a look for the first time. Meeting times may be adjusted if necessary to accommodate participant needs.
Web: http://www.natcap.org
Contact: Anna Jaffe, EC Wat 412, (609) 273-5914, ajaffe@mit.edu
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No Book, Just Cook
Ole Nielsen, Daniele De Francesco
Tue Jan 18, Wed Jan 19, Thu Jan 20, Mon Jan 24, Tue Jan 25, 06:30-08:30pm, W71 Country Kitchen
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2005
Limited to 25 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 20.00 for purchase of food
Eating well is not an expensive habit if you know the basics of cooking. This introductory class will take students through a journey of taste, from the basics in tools and techniques, to the final "impressing a date" class. Rather than teaching individual recipes, this course will help students to build a set of skills and techniques that allow them to cook in a simple kitchen and produce impressive results. Practical demonstrations will be given throughout the course.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Ole Nielsen, ole@mit.edu
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Run the World for a Month: Systems and Decision Making
James Rising
Mon Jan 10, Wed Jan 26, 07-08:00pm, 24-619
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 09-Jan-2005
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Live a year in the life of the President of the United States, or the owner of a small retail store, a producer of a medical device, or an editor for a national newspaper-- this IAP! Individually choose your role in society and make the day-to-day decisions of your position. Along with your peers, you will craft the world to which you react, addressing both practical concerns and challenges spawning from system dynamics, philosophy, ethics, organization, and management. If you are interested, this activity can continue in the spring term for those who sign up for SP.252 Systems and Decision Making. Email jrising@mit.edu to choose your position-- first come, first served! The first meeting is not mandatory to be involved.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: James Rising, 24-612, x3-7787, jrising@mit.edu
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Think: A Coffeehouse Series
Mark Avara
Fri Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 08-10:00pm, 24-619
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: an inquiring mind
This Friday night coffeehouse series will focus on searching for the meaning of life through reading poetry, performing skits, telling jokes, delivering monologues, singing, acting, and the like. Refreshments served.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/esg
Contact: Mark Avara, mavara@mit.edu
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