The Independent Activities Period (IAP)
IAP provides members of the MIT community (students, faculty, staff, and alums) with a unique opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, recitals and contests. IAP 2020 begins on Monday, January 6, 2020 and ends on Friday, January 31, 2020. For details, visit the IAP official website.
HOW TO NAVIGATE YOUR TECH STARTUP IN GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL MARKETS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is for MIT students and community members who are...
When you publish in scholarly journals, you’re usually required to give up some rights in your work. In this workshop, MIT librarians will show you what to...
Expand your experience with desktop GIS software and learn how to use analysis tools to query data, conduct spatial statistics, and perform network analysis....
Robert Gibbons & Namrata Kala (MIT)
Free and open to the public; as well as staff, alumni, and students (non-credit IAP activity). This popular activity – which aims to reach all those with an...
Useful as each of them can be, a large body of tips and tricks is impossible to remember, at least in a practical, usable way, unless it is structured into a...
Meet Eat Speak Come to meet other language enthusiasts, students studying new languages, and native speakers of languages you’d like to practice. All MIT...
In this IAP offering, we frame divination as the drive to ask questions, to seek guidance and advice, to build stories and nourishing narrative frameworks....
New this IAP! Join us for a grant-writing workshop and information session on January 21 at 4pm in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in Stratton Student Center...
Do you enjoy being outdoors but don't know what to do when the temperature drops? Do you live for summer but suffer in winter? Are you cooped up from...
Venture Capital has its place for funding companies, but Hard Tech is . . . particularly HARD for VCs to embrace. So how does a startup navigate in a space...
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Emerging technologies relevant to augmenting and enhancing Warfighter performance and on future battlefields. Discussion on the findings of a recent...
During this session, we will cover the following topics: Learn how Brio queries dataLearn how Cognos queries dataConfigure Cognos to use a query from a Brio...
If you are considering exploring Industry positions, you will need to have a resume that effectively positions you for this path. This workshop will discuss...
Mikaela Rabb and Emily Sylvia, J-PAL Global
Do you struggle with organizing your research data? Wonder if there’s a better way to arrange and name your data files to optimize your work? This workshop...
The MIT Lindy Hop Society hosts free swing lessons and social dances throughout the month of January. Beginners welcome, no partner necessary. The lessons...
Gaelle Conille, Margaret Andersen, Siena Harlin (J-PAL Global)
Oscar Wild said that, ‘There are some people who bring happiness where they go and there are some people who bring happiness when they go.’ So, there are...
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references or PDFs is common and important in today’s academic world. These tools...
Pitching an early-stage science- and technology-based startup to potential funders can be intimidating. Learning how to tailor your presentation and...
Learn to use Python and Arcpy, the Arcgis module for automating tasks in Arcgis Pro. This is a hands on class that requies significant experience with Arcmap...
MIT is full of research and collaboration opportunities. Learn how to discover those opportunities beyond your personal network using tools and resources...
What does an engineer with a Ph.D and a partner at a venture capital firm have in common? For Dr. Joel Palathinkal, everything! Dr. Joel Palathinkal,...
It has been said that content is king. Copyrighted works – whether media, software, or art – are a major portion of the world’s creative, intellectual, and...
Are you writing a literature review for a thesis or an article? Need to find background information and go deep into the literature to find out what has been...
In conjunction with List Projects 20: Becca Albee, the List Center will present a screening of three videos by Robert Blanchon selected from the Robert...
Cognos is MIT's enterprise reporting tool. In this session, we'll discuss what it is, and how the MIT community can take advantage of this tool. Topics to...
Please join Artists Beyond the Desk in the Rotch Library (Building 7, Room 238) for a reception celebrating the launch of a new exhibition of work by our...
Wuming Theater Club is proud to present "Das Kapital", our IAP 2020 production at the W97 theater. Das Kapital is a play written by renowned playwright Nick...
Smothered by the social pressures of country life, Jacqueline “Jack” Worthing regularly assumes the identity of a man named Ernest to escape to London. As...
Join us for a Japanese tea ceremony performed by Mrs. Kyoko Wada, who has been studying the Japanese Tea Ceremony for more than 30 years. She will share "the...
This hands-on workshop will teach you how to use R to import and manipulate data, install and manage packages, conduct basic statistical analyses, and create...
Jacob Binde and Arielle Rawlings (J-PAL North America)
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) can play an important role in minimizing the risks present in labs. During this session participants will learn: The...
Careers are ill-defined, "wicked" problems. Learn how proven design thinking mindsets like curiosity, bias to action, reframing, and collaboration can help...
Nancy Rose (MIT)
Join us over IAP for a weekly meal in W11. Sit and eat or take it to-go! Food prepared and served by MIT Origins Club, with support from the Protestant...
This hands-on workshop introduces the basic elements of Python, a general purpose programming language commonly used for data cleaning, analysis,...
Many scientists enjoy giving back by visiting local schools or museums and engaging with children there, but doing so can sometimes feel like a distraction...
Tobias Salz (MIT)
The Navy and Marine Corps are working thru operational concepts for high-end warfare and have developed a Maritime Fight plan outlining how applying the...
In this mini-course (T, W, Th from 1-2 pm) we go in depth into 1) how the brain takes in and processes information in a presentation setting, 2) the 5 goals...
This is an introduction to the Tableau Prep tool. This tool allows you to combine multiple data sources into one data source to be used by Tableau Prep. You...
Ben Olken (MIT)
This introductory session will provide an overview of concepts and tools for visualizing data. Topics will include use cases and tool selection, data...
This hands-on workshop will introduce basic techniques for web-scraping using popular Python libraries. This workshop is intended for those who are new to...
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