Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 2/16/11 Minutes
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BE UG Board Meeting
2-16-11
BE UG Lounge (56-046)
9pm
- Associate Advising
- Yuan – contact Cathy and will match up people
- Painting the logo in lounge
- Sweatpants? More popular than t-shirts
- Consulting Career Event
- There is interest among undergrads
- Possible Dates: March 7/8/9/14/28/30/15/16
- More Exams directly before/after spring break
- Shoot for March 7-9 → Monday March 7
- Dan will be responsible for setting it up
- Yuan: Meeting with BE-BMES in two weeks
- Official Meeting Time: Tuesdays@8:00pm every two weeks
- Updating the lounge
- Putting in a bed/futon or a hammock?
- Printer? Too expensive/maybe out of budget?
- Clean out fridge!
- Add lounge access to freshman and new sophomores
- Budget
- Study Break budget:
- Don’t overspend on food → can get ~$200 of food
- Don’t decrease budget for Associate Advising
- Study Break budget:
- FPOP
- Too many lectures → shouldn’t get rid of all of the lectures, but should decrease the amount
- Try to get more charismatic speakers
- Touring InkoBioworks was successful
- Need to get agenda from Siv
- Need to e-mail Elisabeth
- More hands on lab experiences – but need to work out safety training
- Save money for food, make FPOPers cook (eg. BBQ pits)
- BE twist?
- Food chemistry?
- Bonding time! (eg. taboo/apples-to-apples)
- Last year schedule: 8:00am-6:00pm → long schedule
- Museum of Science
- 8 counselors last year, but not all of them showed up everyday
- ~2/3 FPOP alums from last year
- Decrease the amount of counselors and make attendance everyday mandatory
- Send out Counselor Application today – will be due March 4 (interviews before Spring Break)
- Look up the number of students we are allowed to have in the FPOP
- Too many lectures → shouldn’t get rid of all of the lectures, but should decrease the amount
- Dates for study breaks
- 3 study breaks/semester (could do more?)
- After 20.109 first lab report? – for sophomores – march 31
- After 20.310 first exam? – for Juniors – march 7
- After 20.380 – for seniors – mid April (ask Kevin)