Monday, February 15, 2010

Lectures crasher

Couple years ago I watched the movie of wedding crasher with my parents, who still do not understand why persons put so much efforts to crash wedding. I joked that they want the free food. same for party crasher, free party, free food, always fun! some MIT students even organized the Red Line(MTBA in Boston, one of main Subway line by MIT and Harvard) Pub Crawl to crash 6-7 pubs. 'Free food' certainly plays a big role.

Lately I go to every MIT Sloan lunch lectures(some are series, and some are not). So many amazing lectures, here is a glimpse what I went this week.
Monday: Consulting, by Christoph Pestinger, Associate Partner at DPDHL Inhouse Consulting
Tuesday: Entrepreneurship, by Frank Altman - CEO of Community Reinvestment Fund(which I have to skip another lecture from HubSpot presentation, one of MIT SDM & Sloan graduate funded company.)
Wednesday: E&E and Net Impact Lunch Speaker - Andrew Jay from Siemens Venture Capital
Thursday: “Design for Mobile Computing” by Nick Oakley from Intel Lead Industrial Designer PC Client Platforms (discuss mobile platform design, concepts and thinking) (Again, I choose this over another also very good lecture)
Friday: Women in Technology

Yes, all lunches are included and I went to all. Really until my last conversation with my parents, who said that I looked like guys in wedding crasher, instead that I crash lectures, wow! I never thought about that phrase! In that way, so far, the happiness to be a lecture crasher is great.

only one small drawback, here in MIT, the class finishes 5 mins early and starts 5 mins later to allow students cross campus, as all classes are scheduled without breaks in between. When I leave whichever the lecture place by 12:55p.m. and made to Class by 1:05p.m., sometimes can be challenging, esp. in lately Boston's weather.

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