Minutes 1/6/23
Present: Kharis, Nadege, Anthony, Annaliese, Natalie, Megan, Tricia
Agenda
- (5 min) Follow up on last meeting action items
- (1 min) JP Jobs – respond to Ann
- We’re not on the jp-jobs listserv?
- Jp-jobs list not necessarily useful for most jp students unless they’re graduating soon
- Maybe modify to ‘early-career-jobs’ to include post-docs, techs, SSFs
- Kharis: respond to Ann with these suggestions
- (15 min) Funding requests
- *Funding disparity between WHOI & MIT social events
- Encourage more MIT-based students to requests funds for events
- Unlikely to run out of money for the year
- AcadeMIA Table Read Dinner
- Cheaper meal option – pizza instead of golden swan ($10-12 pp ideal)
- Not individually-portioned meals, open to all
- Nadege: email Max – will fund the meal (if cheaper), ask for it to be open to all and ask about potential future funding requests
- Stretching for the Stressed
- Survey students for general interest & if people have their own yoga mats
- Trial run events for a week or two to see what real interest is before buying mats (this was done last year for the JP dance floor)
- Fund snacks for the first one?
- Nadege: reply with these suggestions
- January Social Hour – skip january pizza at WHOI, no bus running
- Movie nights at WHOI & MIT- popcorn & soda is cheaper
- *Funding disparity between WHOI & MIT social events
- (10 min) Winter retreat (Feb 10-12)
- Natalie: Send out registration form
- Point people – Nadege, Natalie, Anthony
- Annaliese wants to help plan but not as a point person
- Commitment form
- Add Q about where they’re coming from (WHOI or MIT)
- Add Q if the cost is an issue, let us know
- Plan for 35-40 people
- Plus ones are now part of WHOI student community (decide later if we want to change how priority is assigned)
- Planning cars/food/activities – after sign-ups are done
- (15 min) Open house (March 13-14)
- Monday at MIT, monday night bus to WHOI, tuesday at WHOI
- Open house committee
- Megan, Natalie – talk more about this in slack
- Outside reps – 2 people interested so far
- Megan/Natalie: JP-wide email advertising open house and the committee; note that in the future we’ll ask for student help running events
- Scope of what the reps/committee are responsible for
- Tricia: send email to us in the future outlining this
- (4 min) Winter meeting
- Is late march too soon after open house?
- Will have different point people for winter meeting: Kharis & Annaliese
- Too soon for APO – early or mid april → Spring meeting
- Tricia: ask APO when would be a good time for this, let us know
- Open house will be slightly less work for reps this year by adding committee
- (5 min) Open Czar positions
- Buffins – urgently needed before bus starts again
- Stickers and other swag – 1 interested
- Open house committee – 2 interested
- Cora: send out reminder email, reframe that this is open to MIT students too and it’s a good way to be involved in the JP community
- Emphasis on buffins fairy
- (3 min) Steinbach updates
- Emphasis on this for next working meeting
- Little interest so far – could open up to post-docs, other people in depts
- Can be international
- If time – (2 min) SidPac Updates
- No one came to ask about their missing stuff
January 18th @ 10am for next working meeting