Living an Extraordinary Life
David Mindell, Lauren Zander
Tue Jan 29, Wed Jan 30, Thu Jan 31, 01-04:00pm, E51-335
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Jan-2008
Limited to 70 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Geared for juniors, seniors and graduate students.
The course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. This class deeply addresses what it takes to succeed, and to be proud of your life and happy in it. It is led by Lauren Zander, head of the Handel Group, a successful executive coaching firm in New York City, and Prof. David Mindell, Director of STS. You will tackle career satisfaction, money, your body, vices, and your relationship to yourself. Address your own life and how you live it and learn from it. An inquisitive nature and willingness to face the truth are required. It will require a certain amount of homework and commitment on the part of the students. For information or to sign up, contact Lisa Chaney at lchaney@mit.edu.
Contact: Lisa Chaney, E51-185, (646) 309-0687, lchaney@mit.edu
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More Than Good Enough: Improving Your Science Images and Representations
Rebecca Perry, Felice Frankel, Rosalind Reid
Thu Jan 17, Fri Jan 18, 10am-02:00pm, 5-216
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2008
Limited to 16 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Participants should bring one or two examples of images generated from their own data or problems they are interested in working on. The group will discuss and suggest making some changes. On the second day, we will discuss your "re-dos". You are also welcome to bring some examples of images that seem to "work".
The number of places is limited to maintain a conversational workshop atmosphere.
About the activity leaders: Felice Frankel is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University's Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) and Research Scientist at MIT; Rosalind Reid is editor of American Scientist and also a Fellow at IIC; Rebecca Perry is a HASTS graduate student and graphic artist.
To sign up, email rebperry@mit.edu.
Contact: Rebecca Perry, E51-070, x3-6979, rebperry@MIT.EDU
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