We will be open from 12pm to 2pm.

Photos of the welcome BBQ, courtesy of Hongyi.

Thanks to everyone who came last night to the BBQ!  We were very happy to have so many of you join us, including the people from BU, Harvard, and Boston in general.  We hope you met some new faces, and enjoyed the satay, otak, chicken wings, and bee hoon which took a lot of sweat and blood (literally) to prepare.

Special thanks must go to the following people –

** Coordination and organization:

Jeremy, Jonathan, Jit Hin, Samantha

** Food prep, BBQ, cleanup:

Ninghan, Kwang Yong, Kong Jie, Jiawei, Shawn, Cheryl, Guo-Liang, Wenxian, Yoong Keok, Joanne, Winnie, Amelia, Ruijie, Jiachuan, Jinfeng, Richie, Christian, Myron, Beverley

** Recipes:

Kong Jie, Cheryl, Jeremy

** Transport:

Sarah and Keng, Chuan Yi, Jianmin

** Photos:

Hongyi

** Sponsors:

Graduate Student Council, Overseas Singapore Unit

We could not have organized the welcome without the help of all our volunteers.  Please forgive me if I’ve missed your name (and shoot me an email to let me know!).  Let us know also if there was anything that could have been done better.

Our next big event will be Kopitiam, which will be tentatively held on the 31^st of Oct, Sat.  Dishes in the past have included chilli crab, chicken rice, carrot cake, laksa, kaya toast, bandung, and whatever other recipes other people have to share.  KIV the date as we will need many volunteers again to help, and even more people to eat!

Thanks again,

Shirleen and the MITSSS committee

The Welcome BBQ will be held next Saturday, so we will be doing the preparation and shopping from Friday afternoon onwards. The prep will be done in S-P, like before National Day, except that there will be twice as much food, so if you’re free this Friday for either shopping or prep, let us know and we’ll keep you updated.

Tentatively, shopping will be done after 3 pm and prep will start sometime around 6-7 pm. We will need more help for the preparation though, so please try to keep the date free.

Thanks!
Jonathan

Hope you’ve had a great summer, and welcome (back)! We will be holding our annual barbecue at the Kresge BBQ pits on the 19th of September from about 5.30 pm. Come join us for an evening of food, fun and company.

We will be needing volunteers to help purchase, prepare and grill the food on the day itself, so if you’re interested, please let us know. In addition, if you have a car or Costco membership, let us know if you’re willing to help with purchasing and transporting the food.

If you plan to attend the event, please RSVP at http://mitsss.scripts.mit.edu/~wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

We will post more details as the date approaches, and look forward to seeing you at the event!

Cheers,
Jonathan

It was a wonderful BBQ this evening and thanks to everyone who came down, the event was full of the Singaporean atmosphere. The satay, otah, chicken wings and beehoon must have been really good as evident from the absence of leftovers. I certainly did have a fun time and I hope you enjoyed the event too. The success of the event required the efforts of some of the MITSSS members which I would like to thank specifically:

Food Preparation - Alice, Amelia, Ruijie, Guoliang, Shirleen, Jiawei, Jithin, Kongjie, Kwang Yong, Kah Keng and Sarah.
Transportation - Kah Keng and Sarah.
Entertainment - Wenxian

Lastly, I would like to wish everyone a Happy National Day.

Cheers,
Jeremy

Photos from the event

Thanks for coming down to the Senior Farewell this evening. I hope that you enjoyed the event, and once again, would like to congratulate those who are graduating and wish them all the best as they leave MIT.

I would like to thank the following people for their help before and during the event:

• Samantha, Ruijie and Amelia for ordering and picking up the catered food for the event.
• Wenxian, Guo-Liang, Shirleen and Amelia for the design of the senior gift.
• Cheryl, Jit Hin, Kong-Jie and others for kindly lending us their rice cookers.
• The committee: Shirleen, Jeremy, Samantha, Amelia, Cheryl, Jit Hin for planning and organising the event.
• And everyone else who helped out during the event whose names I have missed out.

The design of the gift is available at:
http://www.customink.com/designs/reallyfin/12749215-2696402/hotlink?cm_ven=hotlink&cm_cat=2&cm_pla=Body_txt&cm_ite=design,
and if there’s enough interest, we can modify the design for a general MITSSS shirt in the Fall.

On behalf of the MITSSS committee,
Jonathan

The new committee would like to invite everyone to a final gathering for
this school year.  It’d be great to meet up with everyone before people take
off for the summer. Most importantly, this will be your last chance to see
off the graduating seniors, many of whom have put a lot of sweat, blood, and
tears into organizing and participating in so many great events, and who
have made the MITSSS a home away from home.

When: Sat May 16th, 6pm
Where: Sidney-Pacific Seminar Room
What: Final gathering, Senior farewell, catered dinner.

So that we can plan for the right amount of food, reply to let me know if
you’re coming (yqsoh@mit.edu), and if you’re graduating or leaving Boston
this fall, please state that too.

I hope to see many of you there!

On behalf of the new MITSSS committee,
Shirleen