Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 01/07/09 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting 03-30-09 Coffee House, 3rd Floor Student Center 10:00PM


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) **Attendance: Alex, Maryelise, Marta, Emily Jean, Bernice, Emzo
 * 3) Associate Advising - email another reminder to AA's after spring break
 * 4) **Bernice will do
 * 5) Study Breaks
 * 6) *Thursday after spring break (after 330 exam) -- Ice Cream; Vermonster Study Break (deliver to 77 Mass Ave this time)
 * 7) **Alex will order the ice cream
 * 8) *380 exam study break -- thoughts?
 * 9) **Great! Order more wings next time!
 * 10) Grad School event with Grad Students and Seniors
 * 11) *April 28th, 7:30pm (56-614 reserved by Cathy)- confirmed by Bryan Owens
 * 12) *Emzo will talk to seniors
 * 13) Dan Darling Internship Session
 * 14) *Marta - will check up on this, issue with Dan
 * 15) ROUND TABLE BE ELECTIVES discussion lunch with seniors
 * 16) * Fill out questionnaire on (1) electives (2) post-MIT plans
 * 17) *Questions we will ask?
 * 18) *Discuss whatever you want to - curriculum, life after MIT, professional development...anything, complaints, praise, wild rambling ideas.
 * 19) *Tues/Thurs, noon, week before spring break
 * 20) **Potential Dates: week of April 6th, MWF  12-1:30, 1-2:30 (more causal, planned by BEUG)
 * 21) ***advertise both sessions even though one more formal vs. less formal
 * 22) *April 10 (1-2pm), following BATS
 * 23) *April 15 (12-1pm)
 * 24) *Still waiting to hear back about when this week we will meet with Professor Griffith
 * 25) **Maryelise will let us know when we will meet with them
 * 26) UG Lounge
 * 27) *posters - Cathy put them in lounge
 * 28) *whoever is in the lounge next will put them up!
 * 29) *Emzo emailing Doug about the GCSF poster
 * 30) **Emzo will do this!
 * 31) *keep checking on other parts of lounge - i.e. big wall-size whiteboard for tutor room (go through catalog and pick one out, comfy seats to nap, etc.
 * 32) **Marta found size - 15x5 ft.
 * 33) **need to make specific list (for Fraenkel and Cathy) with whiteboard dimensions, specific couch size, etc to order
 * 34) *suggestions box in lounge this week - Bernice
 * 35) *BE Gear Ideas
 * 36) **sweatshirts, winter hat, pencils
 * 37) *Mugs - Alex - updates?
 * 38) **They are really cheap if you get nice "beer" mugs
 * 39) **coffee mugs are around 10 dollars each
 * 40) **will they front mugs?
 * 41) **Cathy has vendor catalogue
 * 42) **Message on lounge board "BE Tumbler or Mug? Tally"
 * 43) Tutoring
 * 44) *Maryelise emailed Linda about 20.310 TA's
 * 45) **Griffith emailed out about 20.310 TA, waiting for response
 * 46) Start a pre-orientation program (Emjay)
 * 47) *Maybe do it with course 10 (Emjay will get more information from the course 9 coordinator)
 * 48) **Emjay will email Prof. Lauffen. about doing the program
 * 49) **Emjay will also talk to Orientation people
 * 50) Next meeting with Linda Griffith/BE-BMES - when?
 * 51) *The BioTECH
 * 52) **Got some responses from email
 * 53) **Mike Yee may write about BEUB
 * 54) **Meeting after spring break
 * 55) **Leigh and Stephanie are heading this up
 * 56) *Lunches with BE Faculty
 * 57) *Lecture Series
 * 58) *Pre-meeting with proposal/google doc/make a proposal (Bernice)
 * 59) Kimberly Bernard
 * 60) *Bernice--will forward the email
 * 61) Choosing your Major Open House
 * 62) *Emzo, Emilienne
 * 63) *March 31st
 * 64) *Publicize
 * 65) Make a Sophomore Rep
 * 66) Next BEUB meeting = Wednesday (if we do not meet with Linda)
 * 67) **Maryelise emailed Cathy about meeting with Linda