About Technique
Since 1885, our staph have crafted a beautiful annual of photographs and prose commemorating each year at MIT.
Yearly
Our staph send off our 400 page annual to the publisher in February and release the book in May every year. As students and alumni of MIT, we take great care to showcase MIT in its truest form, candidly, at its best and at its worst. We know how tough the Institute can be, and we know how rewarding it is to get to the other side.
Technique's staph are also responsible for running the yearly 24-hour event A Day in the Life of MIT, where anyone on MIT’s campus can submit a photographic journal of their day to a common website. The last ADITL happened on September 22, 2011.
Weekly
We hold regular meetings at 1pm on Saturday in W20-451. Anyone is welcome to attend. We have photographic equipment for borrowing and often teach various photography and design related seminars at this time.
During book season, fall term through IAP, we hold regular meetings during the week where the various editors of each Technique section come in and do work. This is the best time to get involved with the process of crafting a yearbook.
Staph
Many of our staph are part time (or full time) photographers and/or designers, as well as MIT students and alumni. Most of our staph are free of infection.
It takes no experience to join Technique. Our dedicated staph are committed to helping everyone who's willing to learn, especially when it's about photography or design.
H.R.H. Grogo
If you hang around Technique often, you will see this name plastered everywhere. You will also see many gorillas. This is because our mascot is a gorilla and his name is H.R.H. Grogo.
"But why?" you ask. We don't know either, but H.R.H. Grogo has been there since the beginning, inscribed in the back of the very first Technique, and has been there ever since. We're not quite sure how or when he became a gorilla.
Technique 2013 Managing Board
These are the people elected with the responsibility to get things done.
- Carolina Kaelin
- Editor-In-Chief
- Kirsten Lim
- Managing Editor
- Akimitsu Hogge
- Office Manager
- Gal Koren
- Design Editor
- Julie Ko
- Photography Editor
- Walter Menendez
- Photography Editor
- June Park
- Film Editor
- Kojo Aquah
- Activities Editor
- Kristin Wiseman
- Journal / Literary Editor
- Andrei Ivanov
- Sports Editor
- Jennifer Huang
- Living Groups Editor
- Rachel Fong
- ADITL Editor
- Harini Suresh
- Publicity Director
- Nasir Adaya
- Techno Czar
- Jenelle Feather
- Coke Pusher
- Ta-Chung Ong
- Technique Evangelist
- Biyeun Buczyk
- Contributing Editor
- Meng Heng Touch
- Contributing Editor
- Greg Kuperman
- Contributing Editor
- Quentin Smith
- Contributing Editor
- Alan Xu
- Contributing Editor
Council of Elders
After working for Technique and serving as managing board members for many years, they now provide guidance and wisdom.
- Nick Wiltsie
- Technique 2010 to 2011
- Dave Templeton
- Technique 2004 to 2011
- Carrie Niziolek
- Technique 2001 to 2010
- Eric Schmiedl
- Technique 2008 to 2009
- Marcos Ojeda
- Technique 2005 to 2006