Club Day offers groups a chance to expand

Club officers’ screams and yells echoed across the quad, each with their own distinct motto. Tables all around were cluttered with desserts, drinks and goodies, all in hopes of attracting new members.

On Friday, Sept 25, more than 60 clubs filled the quad with hopes of recruiting new members for the upcoming school year.

Many newly passed clubs made their debut at this year’s Club Day. These clubs include MIT Launch Entrepreneurial, Game Design, Internet Of Things Sensors, Go, Glee, 3-D Printing, Science for Youth, Table Tennis, Super Smash Brothers, SCOPE and Ukulele.

The event proved to be beneficial for clubs to promote themselves particularly to freshmen and transfer students.

“As a new club, we did better than we thought we would,” Game Design president Kedar Abhyankar said. “We talked to a lot of students about the club and got 61 people to sign up.”

New students also found the Club Day experience to be slightly chaotic at first, but later became convenient to them in their searches for new clubs to join.

“I think I signed up for around five clubs and I am still not sure what clubs I am going to commit to,” freshman Janelle Jin said. “I loved the energy of Club Day and how excited people for the different clubs.”