# Activities and Clubs at MIT.

There is a huge list of activities and clubs at MIT. Below are a few, categorized roughly by interest.

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- Campus Publications
- Social Groups
- Computers
- Services
- Arts
- Sports
- Political Groups
- Miscellaneous
- Living Groups

## Campus Publications

- Technique , MIT's yearbook, attempts to capture a year at MIT in 400 pages of photography and student submissions. Technique's strong emphasis on the quality of their photography has occasionally branded them "a photography club posing as a yearbook." - H.R.H. Grogo Publications
- The Tech is MIT's oldest and largest newspaper. - The Tech
- The Thistle is a newspaper wherein the progressive and creative minds of MIT and the surrounding community can share their work. - Alternative News Collective
- Fishwrap is MIT's newest and smallest (personalized) newspaper. (MIT Athena only.) - MIT Media Lab, Electronic Publishing Group
- VooDoo is MIT's Journal of Humour, the only intentionally humorous publication on the MIT campus. - Phosphorous Publishing
- Counterpoint is the MIT/Wellesley Journal of Rational Discourse and Campus Life. They welcome discussion of a wide variety of topics from all points of view. - Advocates of Rational Discourse.

## Social Groups

### Support Groups

- GAMIT, or Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgenders, and Friends at MIT, hosts study breaks, parties, support groups, and other activities for members of MIT's Gay and Lesbian community.
- The MIT Vegetarian Support Group is a very informal organization interested in vegetarian issues. Membership is free, noncommittal and comes with NO requirements (being vegetarian is not a prerequisite).

### Ethnic Groups

- The Canadian Club organizes seminars, parties, and other event related to Canada.

## Computers

### Services and Support

- The Student Information Processing Board provides MIT with a variety of computing services and promotes the use of computing resources at MIT, including this WWW server.
- Athena Consultants are numerous volunteers, paid workers and staff who answer all kinds of questions about the Athena computer system and supported software.
- The MIT Computer Connection provides the MIT community with access to the highest quality mainstream microcomputer and workstation products and services at the lowest possible prices.

### Users Groups

- The OS/2 user's group, for users of IBM's OS/2 operating system, which currently runs on the Intel platform.

### Computers and Art

- The MIT Computer Graphics Society was created with the intention of providing student and MIT community members with the ability to work on artistic projects on computers. Their current efforts are in the area of computer graphics and animation.

### Miscellaneous

- 6.270, the LEGO Robot Design Competition is an IAP activity in which student teams design autonomous robots for a competition.

## Services

- The Lecture Series Committee presents a variety of movies and lectures on the MIT campus.
- Alpha Phi Omega is a national, co-ed, service fraternity, centered on the principles of leadership, friendship, and service. The Alpha Chi chapter at MIT provides community service to the MIT campus, greater Boston region, and the New England area.
- MedLINKs are student volunteers who can help you with any questions you might have about your health or the MIT Medical Department.
- WMBR is MIT's noncommercial, all volunteer radio station. Their signal can be heard throughout the greater Boston area at 88.1 FM, 365 days a year, 18-22 hours per day.
- The MIT Entrepreneurs Club (e-club) helps develop new business ventures. They meet weekly, sponsor special events, and co-organize and produce the MIT $10K Entrepreneurial Competition.

## Arts

### Music

- The Cross Products, MIT's coed Christian a cappella singing group.

### Dance

- Tech Squares is MIT's square dancing group.

### Centers and Galleries

- The List Visual Arts Center explores the most contemporary art making in all media: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, architecture and design, and experimental works that resist easy classification.
- An Online Gallery of photography is being compiled by the MIT Edergton Center in collaboration with The Tech.

## Sports

### Club

- The Ultimate Frisbee team
- The Womens' Ice Hockey team

### Intramural

- The Jamaican Bobsledders D+ league hockey team

## Political Groups

- The MIT Libertarians is a grass roots political club on campus, dedicated to furthering libertarian principles, including the policies and candidates of the Libertarian Party.

## Miscellaneous

- The MIT Anime Club provides regular showings of Anime and an online library of Anime-related text and scanned pictures to its members and the MIT community.
- The High Power Rocket Society is an a unofficial group which is working on resurrecting the old Rocket Society, with a slant toward High Power Rocketry.

## Living Groups

### Campus Houses

- Burton 4
- East Campus, 41st West
- La Maison Francaise
- MacGregor House
- Russian House

### Independant Living Groups

- Fenway House

### Fraternities

- Epsilon Theta
- Phi Kappa Theta
- Tau Epsilon Phi

### Sororities

- Alpha Chi Omega

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