Meet other prospective graduate students and to strategize on how best to prepare for the GRE and for the admissions game. Monthly sessions are free! Find study partners and exchange information on the best local offerings in test prep and admissions guidance. Facilitator is an honors graduate with a Masters in Law from Columbia Law School, and has been a test prep professional since 1998. She does professional editing for Oxford University Press and helps students craft their stories into …

This is a Meet Up where local folks preparing for the LSAT can get together and share info, tips, tricks and knowledge on how best to prepare for the test. Facilitator is a test prep professional beginning with a "Big Name" test prep company in 1998. Since then, she has helped nearly one thousand students prepare for standardized tests and gain admission to graduate schools. She is an honors graduate of Columbia Law School and an attorney.

Based on the Myers-Briggs temperament indicator, this group is designed to bring together INFJ, INFP, INTJ and INTP types.  Introverted, however, does not automatically mean excessively shy or sensitive!  It means we are not "happy hour" types, but prefer small group settings with discussions that go beyond "small talk". Not sure what your Myers-Briggs type is?  Take the test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp And if you are one of the above types, here's our message to you: Yes, w …

Agile software development is a great way to make good software that satisfies real needs and creates real value to those who build and use that software. Everyone on the team is concerned with the quality of the product. However, sometimes it can be an overwhelming task being the team member whose job it is to insure that the quality of the product is sufficient. DCAST was created to develop a community of those interested in agile software testing who are also interested in testing agile produ …

Welcome to the Washington DC Software Craftsmanship User Group! This group is for software developers in the Washington DC area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills, share what they know and learn new things from others. This is a hands-on coding user group with no presentations. Each meeting will be a dojo where we will go through a challenging software craftsmanship exercise that focuses on clean code, test-driven development, des …

Come on hackers, lets get together and do some pair programming. We all need to practice and learn from each other, so lets stop talking about it and do it.

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Welcome to the Washington DC Scrum User Group! This group is for Washington DC area Agile evangelists, thought leaders and enthusiasts that are passionate about all things Agile and Scrum. Meetings are held monthly and are mainly discussions, workshops, or open space type sessions covering various topics about Agile and Scrum. Meetings will usually occur on the 3rd Monday or Tuesday night of the month and will be in a location that is metro accessible in the Washington DC/Arlington/Alexandria …

V.FIT DC is one of Washington DC's premier Concierge Fitness & Wellness services. Our services include, but are not limited to, personal training, group fitness, fitness testing/assessments, corporate wellness solutions, nutritional consultations and hotel/condo gym management and consulting. Through this meetup group, we would like to introduce our V.FIT For A Cause program. Part of our core values as a community based business is to do our part in giving back to the community and helping tho …

NOTE: I postevents on here of more than half of the events I attend with other folks ( sans my currently benign m-eh date nights) ..... so if you see only me attending , ask 'coz I might be with a small group of other gals not on here or who chose not to be on meetups...Beth ___________________________________________________________________________ Hey there, We started this meetup as an INVITATION-ONLY network for now. We're both starting a new phase in life [ newly single bachelorette status …

We're a bunch of hackers, inventors, engineers, techies, developers and makers who love all things IT and security. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware hackers to those who would like to learn what can be done with these new technologies in the arts, sciences, healthcare, gaming, academia, and business venture opportunities. Our meetups are totally informal and are a great opportunity to chat about projects, create new ones, solve problems, mingle, network and generally shoot the breeze …

Welcome to the Washington DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment User Group. This meetup is dedicated to sharing tools and techniques for delivering software repeatably and reliably to production. If you are interested in learning about automating day to day tasks, writing build scripts, build tools, continuous integration servers, continuous deployment, DevOps, Puppet or Chef, test automation, deployment pipelines, database provisioning, and much much more, then this is the group fo …

Have a web or mobile application you want to test? Have a prototype or mock-up you want to introduce to the light of day? Let's test with 1) real users 2) in real time 3) face to face and 4) FREE? Premise: People who want users for their applications/designs for testing, will test others applications/designs, in exchange. In addition, our group will have expert speakers on usability, UX and UI. You are welcome to attend to learn, network and help others test their software and designs, even if …

This is a group dedicated to sharing tools, tips, and techniques for user experience research (UXR) via story telling and demonstration of real life examples and the subsequent lessons learned.

In honor of the CitySec movement started several years ago, this is a local infosec meetup run by NovaInfosec.com. We basically meetup in at a local bar every 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month and talk shop, drink a few good beers and maybe grab a bite to eat. It's the perfect way to wind down after a long hard hump day.

Hello Fellow Change Agents, In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?" "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test." "Triple filter?" "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter …

Let's get together for GMAT Prep. In each meetup solve problems and help each other with tricky problems in both Quant and Verbal Sections. My target is to do the GMAT by end of April 2013 so I will be doing lot of study over next few weeks. C'mon out and lets study together.

We're a group of folks in DC who are interested in learning about web development, mobile development, Ruby, PHP, and maybe even starting a small business. But we're not experts, that's why we're using Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com) as a learning tool. Treehouse provides great instruction, quizzes, code tests, and other tools to give you a great education in coding, design, and business. If you're interested in getting started in the world of development, or if you want to take your skills to the …

Trees for the Planet (TFP) creates learning programs and environments to allow individuals, student teams and communities to participate in hands-on ecosystem restoration, on-going maintenance, and education. We are building networks and teams of neighborhood people (students, parents and all interested) who want to learn about and engage in actual eco-system restoration where they live. We plant trees and remove invasive species on property in our neighborhoods. Our work is in consort with the …

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange Q&A Testing Behaviour Driven Development General tips for TDD This group is not restricted to particular programming languages, tools or platforms. Sign up for this meetup to b …

A local group forming around the Podio work platform, from Citrix. You're invited if you've never heard of Podio, use and love Podio in your business or team, or are taking Podio past its basics through advanced programming. This group is not sponsored or endorsed by Podio. Just a group of hobbyists that love a great product.