Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 03/11/09 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting 03-11-09 Coffee House, 3rd Floor Student Center 10:00PM


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) *Maryelise, Bernice, Emily Jean, Emzo, Marta
 * 3) Associate Advising - Bernice
 * 4) *Email to AAs to see if they have planned anything yet (keep reminding them to do so)
 * 5) **Email sent, keep checking up on them
 * 6) Study Breaks -
 * 7) *add study breaks for 20.330 and 20.310 test nights
 * 8) *Thursday after spring break (after 330 exam) -- Ice Cream; Vermonster Study Break
 * 9) *380 exam next Tuesday; 12-1; delivered to room; Maryelise will take care of it
 * 10) Grad School event with Grad Students and Seniors
 * 11) *Tentatively April 28th
 * 12) *Maryelise will email Bryan Owens
 * 13) *Emzo will talk to seniors
 * 14) Isaacson Pre-med Event
 * 15) *Thoughts from Monday
 * 16) **Good attendance
 * 17) Dan Darling Internship Session
 * 18) *March 12th, bump up to 7 PM
 * 19) *Advertising--Maryelise will email out again!
 * 20) *Maryelise/Marta have the excel file of internship info for the wiki--Marta will post it
 * 21) *let BE students know that internships are posted in BE Lounge
 * 22) ROUND TABLE BE ELECTIVES discussion lunch with seniors
 * 23) * Fill out questionnaire on (1) electives (2) post-MIT plans
 * 24) *Questions we will ask?
 * 25) *Discuss whatever you want to - curriculum, life after MIT, professional development...anything, complaints, praise, wild rambling ideas.
 * 26) *Tues/Thurs, noon, week before spring break
 * 27) **Potential Dates: MWF  12-1:30, 1-2:30 (more causal, planned by BEUG)
 * 28) ***advertise both sessions even though one more formal vs. less formal
 * 29) **lunch will be provided
 * 30) *email Cathy about room 56-614; email Prof. Griffith about the two sessions
 * 31) UG Lounge
 * 32) *posters - Cathy is laminating
 * 33) **YAY!
 * 34) *Emzo emailing Doug about the GCSF poster
 * 35) **In the process (cyberspace)
 * 36) *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.
 * 37) **need to make specific list (for Fraenkel and Cathy) with whiteboard dimensions, specific couch size, etc to order
 * 38) *suggestions box - Bernice
 * 39) BE T-Shirts - Bernice
 * 40) *sent out email
 * 41) *Cathy is emailing out about picking up t-shirts
 * 42) *BE Gear Ideas
 * 43) **sweatshirts, winter hat, pencils
 * 44) *Mugs - Alex - updates?
 * 45) Tutoring
 * 46) *Maryelise emailed Linda about 20.310 TA's
 * 47) **email her again
 * 48) *publicize tutoring for all core BE classes!
 * 49) Start a pre-orientation program (Emjay)
 * 50) *Maybe do it with course 10 (Emjay will get more information from the course 9 coordinator)
 * 51) **Emjay will email Prof. Lauffen. about doing the program
 * 52) **Emjay will also talk to Orientation people
 * 53) Next meeting with Linda Griffith/BE-BMES
 * 54) *The BioTECH
 * 55) *Lunches with BE Faculty
 * 56) *Lecture Series
 * 57) *Pre-meeting with proposal/google doc/make a proposal (Bernice)
 * 58) Kimberly Bernard
 * 59) *Linda Griffith/Scholarship Session
 * 60) **email her back (Bernice)
 * 61) **Schedule for first week of May
 * 62) **Bryan's Fellowship Sheet (instead)
 * 63) Choosing your Major Open House
 * 64) *March 31st
 * 65) *BMES choose
 * 66) *Publicize
 * 67) Make a Sophomore Rep
 * 68) Next BEUB meeting = Tuesday March 17th, 10 PM


 * 1) To Do:
 * 2) *Maryelise: Wings (Wing It) 380 study break--notify seniors, Cathy, and profs; email Bryan Owens; email out about the Internship event; Lunch email to Prof. Griffith; email Prof. Griffith and Prof. Lammerding/Lang for 310 tutoring
 * 3) *Emzo: Talk to seniors; email Prof. Lauffen. for GCSF poster
 * 4) *Bernice: Food for the event on Thursday, initial draft of proposal to BMES, email Kimberly
 * 5) *Marta: post internships on Wiki
 * 6) *Emjay: email Prof. Lauffen. about summer program, talk to SUAAP about it also (money quotes, etc.)