Activities and Clubs at MIT.

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• Companies founded by MIT people (an experimental list on a separate page)

• 3.185, Transport Phenomena in Materials Engineering
• 6.035, Computer Language Engineering
• 15.579, Seminar in Future Telecommunications

• 3D Printing Project, an inter-departmental research effort for the rapid and flexible production of prototype parts and tooling directly from a CAD model..
• Mechanical Engineering Hypermedia Project, geared to develop hypermedia engineering curricula.

• 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.
• RUNE: An MIT Journal of Arts and Letters exists to stimulate interaction among members of the various literary and artistic communities in and around MIT. It comprises 100 pages of photographs, paintings, computer art, stories, essays, and poems by MIT students, faculty, and staff. - Rune
• Technology Review is published by the Association of the Alumni and Alumnae of MIT. Technology Review covers current and future developments in technology and especially their implications for human affairs and the environment in which they are conducted. - Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT

• 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 Student Cable Group produces a wide range of television programming available on MIT Cable Channel 36. Students play every role in television production -- from direction to acting to technical work -- on several continuing shows, and anyone is welcome to create their own show.

• 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).

• The MIT International Students' Association
• The MIT Canadian Club
• The MIT Filipino Students Association
• The MIT Russian Club
• The Association of Indonesian Students at MIT
• The MIT Arab Student Organization
• The MIT Native American Students Association
• The MIT Hansori
• La Union Chicana por Aztlan (LUChA)
• The Lebanese Club at MIT
• The Turkish Student Association (TSA)
• The Republic of China Student Association at MIT
• The MIT Korean Graduate Student Association
• The MIT European Club
• The Japanese Association of MIT (JAM)

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 6.270, the LEGO Robot Design Competition is an IAP activity in which student teams design autonomous robots for a competition.
• 6.095/STS095: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier. This is a new course for Fall '94, which makes extensive use of the Web. Topics: computer crime, intellectual property restrictions on software, encryption and privacy, First Amendment issues in cyberspace.
• The Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI)

• 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.
• 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.
• Project America is an initiative to inspire long-term, ongoing constructive action and community responsibility by promoting and coordinating an annual national community improvement day.
• The Source, the information and service outpost in the lobby of the Student Center, provides a variety of information to the MIT Community, including Boston area and MIT events listings, Restaurant suggestions and information, academic information, and connections to various sections of TechInfo.
• The MIT Office of Career Services and Preprofessional Advising is now running the H.I.R.E.S. interactive career information system on the web. (MIT Only)
• The schedules for the SafeRide vans (MIT safety shuttles)

• The Cross Products are MIT's coed Christian a cappella singing group.
• The MIT Logarhythms are MIT's all-male a cappella singing group.
• The Chorallaries are MIT's loudest and only secular coed a cappella singing group.

• Tech Squares is MIT's square dancing group.
• The MIT Folk Dance Club sponsors three weekly dances and a performing group, Vinovana.

• The Summer Production Artistic Repertory Company is a theatre group that produces summer shows on a sporadic basis.
• The MIT Musical Theatre Guild is a theatre group that produces four full-scale musicals each year. It is a student run extra-curricular theatre organization.
• The MIT Dramashop is a theatre group that produces 2 full-scaled plays and one evening of student-written student-directed one-acts each year. It is a student run co-curricular theatre organization.
• The MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform the works of the British duo, Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, as well as related works. It is a student-run extra-curricular theatre organization.

• 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.
• MIT Women's Soccer
• The MIT Athletics Homepage Please contact athletics@mit.edu to have your athletic activity, whether varsity or intramural, listed here.

• The MIT Ultimate Frisbee team
• The MIT Womens' Ice Hockey team
• The MIT Figure Skating Club (MITFSC)
• The MIT Korean Karate Club
• The volleyball page includes:
  • Women's Varsity Volleyball
  • Intercollegiate Volleyball Club.

• The MIT Intramural Athletics Program information page
• The MIT Intramural Hockey information page
• The Jamaican Bobsledders D+ league hockey team

• The MIT Outing Club provides backpacking, climbing, hiking, or whitewater paddling gear, maps, and guidebooks for cheap rent to MIT affiliates.
• The MIT Caving Club sponsors caving trips and rappelling practices for the claustrophilic and acrophilic.
• The MIT Soaring Association is a not-for-profit corporation formed in 1968 to provide safe and inexpensive soaring to our members. Free instruction for beginners through advanced levels is provided by our FAA licensed instructors. We own five modern sailplanes and a tug and fly every weekend, weather permitting, at Stirling Mass.

• 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.
• The Students for Ethical Treatment of Animals fosters awareness of various issues related to animal rights and welfare.
• The MIT Radicals for Capitalism/Objectivist Lyceum is a group dedicated to studying Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and to promoting pro-freedom, pro-reason ideas.
• The MIT Student Association for Freedom of Expression works to prevent curbs on freedom of speech and other forms of freedom of expression, especially by the Institute and by the government.

• Graduate Student Council represents graduate student interests on campus by liasing with the Administration and Faculty on the students behalf. They also organize seminars and fun activities throughout the year including graduate orientation week.

• The MIT Pagan Student Group is a support network for Pagans in the MIT community which hosts semi-regular rituals and works to improve the image of Paganism in the MIT community.
• United Christian R/O is a conglomeration of about seventeen Christian organizations who coordinate activities during MIT's freshman residence/orientation week at the beginning of the Fall semester.
• The MIT Chinese Bible Fellowship is a group of Christian students who meet regularly for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship.
• The MIT Muslim Students' Association aims to help Muslims at MIT practice Islam, to introduce Islam to non-Muslims and to foster the spirit of Islam inside and outside MIT. MITMSA achieves this by organizing religious, social and educational events throughout the year.
• The Christian Student Association is a club that encourages the study and application of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible in daily college life through Bible study groups, prayer, worship services, community service and recreational activities.
• Korean Baptist Student Koinonia is a campus outreach of Berkland Baptist Church, comprised mostly of Asian-American Christians on campus.
• The MIT Orthodox Christian Fellowship is a group of students interested in learning about living the traditional New Testament faith. They meet regularly for fellowship, discussions, socials, lectures, retreats, church visitations, and Orthodox Christian worship.
• MIT Hillel
• The MIT United Christian Fellowship is a chapter of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.

• 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 MIT Assassins' Guild runs a number of real-time, real-space, live-action role-playing games each year.
• 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.
• The MITSFS, the MIT Science Fiction Society, has the largest open-shelf collection of science fiction in the world.
• The MIT Debate Team members partipate in weekly debate tournaments at colleges and universities across America and the world.
• The MIT Integrated Studies Program is an alternative freshman program which emphasizes hands-on learning and integration of the sciences with the humanities.
• The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team is a student team that designs, builds, and races solar and electric vehicles around the country and around the world.
• The MIT American Indian Science and Engineering Society AISES is a national-based professional engineering organization.
• The MIT Students for the Exploration and Development of Space provides opportunities for students to get involved in the science, enginnering, education and policy aspects of our future in space.
• The MIT IEEE. Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
• BUSA, the Biology Undergraduate Student Association provides information about upcoming events, and links to major WWW biology locations.
• The MIT 24-Hour Coffeehouse, run by Students, serves coffee, food, and other necessities 24 hours a day. Located on the sunny 3rd floor of the Student Center, drop by for the cheapest coffee on campus (other than what you make yourself) and listen to our choice of carefully screened music, provided by our friendly DJs.
• Eta Kappa Nu is the National Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Honor Society. We strive to improve the EECS department and its education environment.
• AFROTC Detachment 365 serves MIT, Harvard, Tufts, and Wellesley. Full tuition scholarships are available from the Air Force, for two to four years, plus books and stipend.
• The MIT Caribbean Club
• The Edgerton Center The Edgerton Center carries on the legacy of Harold "Doc" Edgerton by creating opportunities for students to engage in invention and discovery.
• The MIT College Bowl
• The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) caters to model railroaders, railfans, and hackers alike. Our activities involve all aspects of model railroading, including the application of computer technology and timetable passenger and card-order freight operation.

• Burton-Conner 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• Burton Third Bombers, 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• Burton 4, 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• Conner 3, 410 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• East Campus 3rd East 3 Ames Street, Cambridge
• East Campus 41st West, 3 Ames Street, Cambridge
• Edgerton House, 143 Albany Street, Cambridge
• La Maison Francaise, 476 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• MacGregor House, 450 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• Russian House, 471 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
• Senior House, 4 Ames Street, Cambridge

• Fenway House, 34 The Fenway, Boston
• pika, 69 Chestnut Street, Cambridge
• Student House, 111 Bay State Road, Boston

• Alpha Delta Phi, 351 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
• Epsilon Theta, 259 St. Paul Street, Brookline
• Zeta Beta Tau, 58 Manchester Road, Brookline
• Theta Xi, 64 Bay State Road
• Sigma Nu colony
• Pi Lambda Phi, 450 Beacon Street, Boston
• Tau Epsilon Phi, 253 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
• Phi Kappa Theta, 229 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
• Chi Phi 32 Hereford Street, Boston

• Alpha Chi Omega
• Kappa Alpha Theta

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