Activities and Clubs at MIT.
There is a huge list of activities and clubs at MIT. Below are a few,
categorized roughly by interest.
Quick-Index: Click to jump to a category.
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
Dance
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
Intramural
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
Independant Living Groups
Fraternities
Sororities
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