Undergraduate BE Board:Agendas - 03/16/09 Agenda

BE UG Board Meeting 03-16-09 Coffee House, 3rd Floor Student Center 10:00PM


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) Associate Advising - how's it going?
 * 3) Study Breaks -
 * 4) *Thursday after spring break (after 330 exam) -- Ice Cream; Vermonster Study Break
 * 5) *380 exam next Tuesday; 12-1; delivered to room; Maryelise will take care of it
 * 6) Grad School event with Grad Students and Seniors
 * 7) *Tentatively April 28th, 7:30pm (56-614 reserved by Cathy)
 * 8) *Maryelise emailed Bryan Owens
 * 9) *Emzo will talk to seniors
 * 10) Dan Darling Internship Session
 * 11) *thoughts?
 * 12) ROUND TABLE BE ELECTIVES discussion lunch with seniors
 * 13) * Fill out questionnaire on (1) electives (2) post-MIT plans
 * 14) *Questions we will ask?
 * 15) *Discuss whatever you want to - curriculum, life after MIT, professional development...anything, complaints, praise, wild rambling ideas.
 * 16) *Tues/Thurs, noon, week before spring break
 * 17) **Potential Dates: week of April 6th, MWF  12-1:30, 1-2:30 (more causal, planned by BEUG)
 * 18) ***advertise both sessions even though one more formal vs. less formal
 * 19) **lunch will be provided
 * 20) *email Cathy about room 56-614; email Prof. Griffith about the two sessions
 * 21) **Cathy is working with Prof. Griffith to tie down a date
 * 22) UG Lounge
 * 23) *posters - Cathy put them in lounge
 * 24) *who will put them up?
 * 25) *Emzo emailing Doug about the GCSF poster
 * 26) **In the process (cyberspace)
 * 27) *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.
 * 28) **need to make specific list (for Fraenkel and Cathy) with whiteboard dimensions, specific couch size, etc to order
 * 29) *suggestions box - Bernice
 * 30) BE T-Shirts - Bernice
 * 31) *sent out email
 * 32) *Cathy is emailing out about picking up t-shirts
 * 33) *BE Gear Ideas
 * 34) **sweatshirts, winter hat, pencils
 * 35) *Mugs - Alex - updates?
 * 36) Tutoring
 * 37) *Maryelise emailed Linda about 20.310 TA's
 * 38) **Griffith emailed out about 20.310 TA, waiting for response
 * 39) **has anyone heard of interest in tutoring from the seniors?
 * 40) Start a pre-orientation program (Emjay)
 * 41) *Maybe do it with course 10 (Emjay will get more information from the course 9 coordinator)
 * 42) **Emjay will email Prof. Lauffen. about doing the program
 * 43) **Emjay will also talk to Orientation people
 * 44) Next meeting with Linda Griffith/BE-BMES - when?
 * 45) *The BioTECH
 * 46) *Lunches with BE Faculty
 * 47) *Lecture Series
 * 48) *Pre-meeting with proposal/google doc/make a proposal (Bernice)
 * 49) Kimberly Bernard
 * 50) *Bernice--get a response?
 * 51) Choosing your Major Open House
 * 52) *March 31st
 * 53) *BMES choose
 * 54) *Publicize
 * 55) Make a Sophomore Rep
 * 56) Next BEUB meeting = ?