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MCAB Presents Guest Speaker: Jia Jiang - Overcoming Adversity

Jia is an entrepreneur, blogger, speaker and writer, with a book in progress. Fearbuster is home to his personal blog, but its scope and intent are wide: He invites you to join him in this amazing, transformative world of triumph over fear. jia’s journey has revealed that the stings and slights of rejection are universal among us as humans, but that with conscious intent we can turn rejection into enterprise, insult into ambition, and regret into courage.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

MCAB SPRING SPEAKER 2017: EDWARD SNOWDEN Democracy and Dictatorship in the Age of Surveillance and Leaks

Edward Snowden, former intelligence officer and whistleblower. On Thursday, March 16 at 7pm, please join us for ;Democracy and Dictatorship in the Age of Surveillance and Leaks: a Conversation with Edward Snowden,; moderated by Allison Stanger, Russell J. Leng ;60 Professor of International Politics and Economics. This virtual conversation will take place in Wilson Hall. The Edward Snowden conversation is open only to Middlebury ID holders and will take place via simulcast in one location–Wilson Hall.

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Closed to the Public

MCAB Haunted House

Join MCAB for a night of scares Saturday, October 29th from 7-10pm. The house will open at 7pm to those who dare enter, and will be a 10 minute walking tour (dress appropriately) through the bunker and outside. If you make it out, you will be rewarded with hot drinks and candy. TRIGGER WARNING: MCAB’s haunted house is for mature audiences, there will be scary moments, blood, and mayhem. Please use your own discretion in deciding if this event is appropriate for you. Sponsored by MCAB Social Committee.

The Bunker (FIC 121)

MCAB Free Friday Film: Jurassic World

A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park. Everything is going well until the park’s newest attraction—a genetically modified giant stealth killing machine—escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

MCAB Free Friday Film Inside Out

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

MCAB Free Friday Film Trainwreck

Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s head by her rascal of a dad that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo - enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment - but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners, Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

MCAB Free Friday Film The Intern

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

MCAB Free Friday Film The Good Dinosaur

“The Good Dinosaur” asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)