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- Using CME alums and Cambridge students who are at MIT to be available for
- continuing orientation
- ad hjoc groups
- course questions
- tips on "how to get around department" and "college"
- Possible undergraduate research projects, connections with
faculty here and there - It looks as though most students do have laptops
- Ben sez: uncap our bandwidth, and I don't know if that's a real problem
- Sam: CU terminologies and department/supervisor prefs for problem solving
- Moira: Chem Eng get no help on how to do lab reports; who to
contact with questions, form of the reports - Jenna: clear that John Archer is no help at all. All biologists
had no clue going into the exam period how to prepare for extreme
essay-based tests. Jenna suggests we replace Archer with Alan Weeds
(who's a friend of Paul Matsudaira). More support needed from NS
departments - Students suggest a point of contact within department: 1 student
for each module/course - Sam talked about the new alumni site being scoped out: mailing
lists by department and college. - Special emergency card: who to contact in the event of trouble;
- How can we put groups in touch with each other without a lot of overhead.
- Reunions here and in Cambridge for alums (we have fund-raising needs)
- AIM lists
- Keeping in touch with parents
- Instead of current system, have an "adult friend of CME"
identified in each college (I think this idea's time has come) - At Emmanuel, no tutor for Moira; Patrick Barrie was great, but
at Emma "no one knew what was going on with me." or understood the
exchange, etc. - Jenna: antagonism from Trinity
- Can we re-instate Buddy System at Cambridge? Returnees who are
the "overseas contact" for CME students. Students in CME don't know,
e.g., where to store stuff, how to get around, etc., until much too
late in year. - Jenna suggests lists of all CME students, like this
Jenna was at XXX college
Her DOS was XXX
Her tutor was XXXX
She took these modules - Moira suggests regularly scheduled online forums plus Rob
Wallach is "in" 1x a week for an hour.
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