Shruti Pillai, Morgan Searle, Jill Smith, Elaina Kritikos, and Naomi Shay are all current MSC students who made it to the winter quarter meet up. Photo: Matt Peyton.

Current students in the MSC Program enjoy a suite of co-curricular programming throughout the year. Co-curricular programs are optional events, gatherings, discussions, workshops or talks that offer students a chance to dive deeper into a popular topic or a learning theme. One of these programs is the MSC Meet Up. MSC Meet Ups are informal, social happy hours for current students, faculty, staff and alumni. Meet ups are fantastic opportunities for students to connect and hang out outside of class, as well as network with alumni.

The winter quarter MSC Meet Up was held at Smylie Brother’s Brewing Co. in Evanston. The meet up was a convenient location for alumni and students who work in Evanston, and it was great to see so many people from this community outside of the classroom and work place.

At meet ups, alumni friend groups come together and catch up, like the crew from the

Jackie Moss, Jerry Culver, Joanne Detch, Dom Merritt, Penelope Johnson, from MSC Class of 2013 at the Winter Quarter 2018 MSC Meet Up. Photo: Matt Peyton.

Class of 2013 who attended last week. Not only do alumni get to network with current students and reconnect as friends, but they are also able to learn what’s currently going on in the program, and how they can stay involved with the Northwestern MSC community.