Do you spend your days being serious, responsible, professional, respectable? Have a stressful job, have bills to pay, have people who depend on you? BEING A GROWN-UP IS HARD WORK!! Every now and then, we need to get out and play - whether it be for just an hour or evening - to reconnect with our inner child and to relax and reenergize. SILLY DATE! NEW YORK is a good clean fun Meetup group in New York City for singles and their friends. Members are fun, friendly, independent-minded and are inter …

We organize weekly alumni mixers, open bars, happy hours, networking functions, speaker series, group trips, and pool parties for Recent Graduates in NYC with Alumni from 50+ colleges from Classes '01 to '11, including NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Tufts, Duke, Stanford, University of Wisconsin, University of Florida, and more!

HackDays is a meetup based on the philosophy that: You're a lot more productive when there's a time limit When learning to code, the fastest way to learn is to make something The best way to be introduced to new programming concepts is by interacting with other hackers You don't have to be a code ninja - a lot of HackDays participants are brand new to programming. There are plenty of experienced CS students and hackers around to help. If you're a current college student (CS or otherwise) and w …

Blue Economics is a volunteer organization that strives for economic development in impoverished communities through strategic capacity building. The broadest definition of capacity building is aiding individuals and institutions by solving inefficiencies and breaking barriers that prevent individuals and communities realize all their economic opportunities. We are a group of talented and passionate fulltime professionals from diverse backgrounds including finance, marketing, media, education, n …

This is a meetup for programmers who support, work or live in the Brooklyn community. It is a very loosely formatted  event and it involves showing code, talking about code and coding. This is not just a come, listen and network experience, you are the experience. Coders from all levels are encouraged to come. Designers need not fear us either. We have quite a few programmers in the group who started with a pure design path and learned to code. We especially encourage those wishing to start that …

OUR MISSION This Meetup strives to make New York City a Model for 21st Century Democracy. We are committed to using technology to build a scalable, sustainable, flexible platform designed to engage more New Yorkers in their local democratic process, that can then be used to serve the Nation and inspire others globally. Never before has local government thrown its weight behind a platform that truly embraces the ideals of ‘by the people, for the people.’ Here, we will continue our conversation …

Weekly DesignDays design events for student hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who’s feeling saucy! We will think, talk, and do design, technology, and entrepreneurship. Note: the goal of DesignDays is to connect NYC area students with one another. As such, this and all DesignDays events are open to current undergraduate and graduate students only.

Floor Four Ventures is an unofficial alumni organization for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Our mission is to enhance the experience and exposure of graduates of the Center for the Recently Possible. We accomplish this by acting as a facilitator for events for alumni, a conduit for contact among and to alumni, and through, eventually, strategic partnerships.

It's Tech@NYU's monthly party! At each DemoDay, Tech@NYU members and other NYC students will demo what they've been working on for the last month in the areas of programming and design. It's a monthly celebration, where Tech@NYU opens it doors to show off what we've been doing. NYC students - if you'd like to demo your latest hack, project, or pre-funding startup, please contact one of the organizers. Past demos have included: A Javascript library for calculus and statistics A remote control fo …

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Association (EIA) is dedicated to four goals: educating students with concepts of entrepreneurship building a support system for new and existing student entrepreneurs providing an outlet for entrepreneurial activity connecting students to resources We have events often, including guest speakers, demo days, competitions and hackathons. http://nyupolyeia.org/

INTRO TO SPORTS MARKETING CLASSES Are you looking to learn more about the sports marketing industry? Introduction to Sports Marketing will teach you about the fastest growing marketing industry; types of jobs; various job titles; how to apply for jobs; how to grow your professional network and how to get an informational interview or internship! We will discuss the many jobs you can have working at a team, a league, a brand, an agency and much more! This class will be instructional with plenty …

This class will teach you everything you need to know to maximize the professional benefits of Twitter. Learn how to set up your account, start tweeting, and follow the people who can provide beneficial industry knowledge. We will teach you how to attract new and relevant followers for your account. Whether you are looking to advance in your job - or find a new job, use Twitter to establish your personal brand. Start Twitter groups and get yourself named to Twitter groups. We will review #FF and …

Leap Motion has captured everyone's attention, including ours. All those video demos in the months leading up, left most everyone in the tech community wanting one. The time has come to show it in action and how to develop with Leap Motion. Our goal is to foster a lively and engaging community for Leap developers, to better understand how to harness this marvelous technology, take the state of the art to a new level, and stay ahead of the curve as Leap continues to evolve. We'll be regularly hol …

This workshop series will cover the fundamentals of design through short expert talks and interactive design exercises; it will focus on how to design products that meet users’ needs in as easy and delightful a way as possible. The free workshops, which are only for students, will meet every other Tuesday at 6:30pm. Design is about creating something to achieve a goal. Maybe you want to design an iPhone app to help people eat more healthily. Or maybe you want to create a piece of public policy …

GameDays consists of panels on a bi-weekly basis, following themes ranging from technical game mechanics and the computational problems involved, to conceptual design involving narrative, music, and art, and intersections of the three. Our intro-level panels empowers students to create games without prior coding experience, using software such as GameMaker: Studio and Unity 3D.

Italian Film Festival, movie, documentaries in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo'

A curated NYU alumni group for people who are focused on entrepreneurship and enjoy meeting monthly for beers in NYC. Enough said. PS - sorry, this is for serious entrepreneurs (people in the space).  Those that are curious/ interested about tech/entrepreneurship should go to New York Tech Meetup