Calendar
Other Events (February 16 through February 21)
Saturday, February 16
- 8:30 AM Customs and Laws of Purim and Pesach
- 7:00 PM Sons of Liberty Improv Comedy Show
- Elements XIII
- 9:00 PM Sons of Liberty presents a FREE IMPROV COMEDY Show!
Monday, February 18
- All Day Application Deadline: CoStar Group
- 4:00 PM Philosophy with Rabbi Beyo
Tuesday, February 19
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to R
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to R
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Kasper Rasmussen
- 7:00 PM Alcohol Awareness Week
- 8:00 PM The BUZZ Launch Party
Wednesday, February 20
- All Day Application Deadline: EF Education First Teaching Fellowship
- All Day Application Deadline: EF Education First
- All Day Application Deadline: Epsilon
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Graphics in R
- 11:00 AM Pie the Rabbi
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to SAS
- 3:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to SPSS
- 5:30 PM Mexican Taquiza at BU Hillel
- 7:00 PM Consent 101
- COM Redstone Film Festival
Thursday, February 21
- 12:00 AM Interview Date: Accenture
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Programming in R
- 12:15 PM EAAF Informal Roundtable Lunch Discussion 2/21/2013: Following the Footprints: Current Issues in the Antiquities Trade, Looted Sites, and International Responses
- 12:30 PM Changing Welfare States: A luncheon discussion with Anton Hemerijck
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- Chinese Students Adjust to American EducationLili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And […]
