All about AAI
Granted in 2024, this community space is AAI HQ.
What is Spasia?
The number of Asian languages that MIT offers.
What is 3? (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
“Cause you said forever now I drive ____ ____ ____ ____” (Olivia Rodrigo)
What is alone past your street?
The student-collated exhibit "South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections" was displayed in this gallery from 2022-2023.
What is Maihaugen Gallery?
She was the first Hmong-American to compete in the Olympics.
Who is Suni Lee?
AAI's instagram handle (go follow us)
@mit.aai
The number of Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI) cultural clubs at MIT (± 5)
What is 21?
"I'm everywhere, I'm so _____" (Charli XCX) (also the name of an AAI member!)
What is Julia?
Spasia, the pan-Asian community space open to all MIT students, is located here.
What is W31-110?
This famous architect graduated from MIT and designed the Green Building.
Who is I.M. Pei?
At the start of every semester, AAI releases this list of classes highlighting topics often overlooked in US education.
What is Learning Past Eurocentric Curriculum?
The percentage of MIT faculty who are Asian American (± 5%)
What is 12%?
"Girls like ____” (Hayley Kiyoko)
What is girls?
He was the first undergraduate international Indian student to attend MIT. (choose from: Keshav Bhat, Kshitish Chandra Basu, S. L. Kirloskar, or Madan Bagai)
What is Keshav Bhat?
Margaret Chung, the first known Chinese-American physician, opened a clinic in the 1920s in this city's Chinatown.
What is San Francisco?
This is the only thing you have to do to become a member of AAI.
What is attend GBM?
The percentage of the Class of 2028 that is Asian American (± 5%)
What is 47%?
Two of the three things Bruno Mars would do for you in "Grenade".
What is catch a grenade, throw his hand on a blade, and jump in front of a train?
The first Mongolian student at MIT lived in this dorm.
What is Senior Haus?
This politician became the first Indian-American to serve in the House of Representatives in 2017.
Who is Pramila Jayapal?
In (semester) of (year), AAI was officially recognized as an MIT club.
What is Spring 2020?
The number of times that the term “Asian American” used in the 2021 first draft of the MIT Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Strategic Action Plan
What is 0?
The number of times Mitski says the word “Nobody” in “Nobody” (± 5)
What is 38?
This Chinese restaurant was located at the site of what is now New and Next House.
What is Joyce Chen Restuarant?
This group became the first Asian American music group to get a hit on the Billboard Top 100 with their song "Like a G6"
What is Far East Movement?