Tip of the Day (/Month/Year)
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Here are lots of pictures from various studcom-organized events.
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Help Hire Faculty
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As you know, the Media Lab is hiring new faculty. A group of students
liaisons is providing feedback
to the hiring committee about what the students think the applicants
should be like and which applicants
we think will benefit the lab. |
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Lab Tea
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The Student Committee runs teas open to everyone at the lab every Friday at 4PM. Get your group to host one! Watch for our announcements to ml-all and the iComs.
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Faculty Retreat 2002
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Internal Talks 2002
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| We helped run the ML internal faculty talk series in the fall of 2002. | ||||
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Visiting Committee
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| There will be another visit by a visiting committee to the lab in Feb 2004.You can see a copy of a draft of the 2002 report. |
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Student Committee
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| If you would like to participate, suggest, join, simply come to our meetings (usually announced on this site), or write to studcom@media.mit.edu with questions or suggestions. |
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Pintglass Competition |
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We're happy to announce the winner of this year's pintglass design competition. New students should already have their pint glasses, others will receive them at our Muddy event on September 9. see the winning entry here. |
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Update: The evaluation results are now online. In pdf format, you can download this year's results as well as last year's results.
The student committee has started handing out the results of this year's advisor evaluation.
Some notes:
- each group gets one printed package containing all the published evaluations. This package is meant to be shared amongst the grad students of the group.
- each advisor gets a page displaying the results for his or her group
- later this summer, we will put the results contained in the packages online
- all groups with 3 or more completed evaluations are included in the published results
- for groups with less than 3 responses, we asked the group members whether they would like the results published. We only published those groups that gave an 'ok'
- the packages also contain a lab-wide summary as their final page, which includes the questions evaluating the student committee and the evaluation process
If we gave you a package, please write to your group to announce that you have it. We are trying to hand out all packages and pages this week. If your group does not have a package by the end of the week, you can start bugging members of the student committee or write to studcom@media.mit.edu. The same holds for advisors. Anybody who is out of town can contact us when they get back or wait for the results to be published online.
How to handle the results is up to the individual groups, but we suggest discussing them in a group meeting.
Thank you for participating,
Your Student Committee
PS: You can find last year's lab-wide summary page and evaluation form here, and there should be one printed copy of the detailed evaluation results per group.
We recently organized another all-student meeting with Walter. You can find our notes on the studcom notes page. Here is a followup email by Walter, giving some of the links he showed at the meeting:
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Thanks for organizing the town meeting. It is too bad that such a small percentage of the students attend such events, but it seems the norm with similar gatherings.
I promised some URLs:
http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/7circles is the latest circle diagram.
http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/SponsorAnimation.html is the confusing yellow/blue animation that distracts from the discussion about how to productively engage the lab. I'll move a simpler version to http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/sponsor-interaction.html ASAP.
http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/IO2003/nif.html is a brief visual history of News in the Future.
http://www.media.mit.edu/~walter/IO2003/people.jpg is a visual I made to describe the churn of people and ideas.
-walter
