What is Going on With Clubs at Middlesex?

Deadened by the never-ending clockwork of classes? Dreading the liminal hours between dinner and study hours, in which despite your best efforts, you have absolutely no clue what to do? Desiring some flavor in an otherwise monotonous series of repetitive schedules?

Behold, for I present to you the panacea to all your earthly woes: clubs!!

(*some exaggeration may have been involved in the above claim.)

But as you know, to be real, around 80% of these clubs never actually…do anything. A few of these clubs (*ahem*) have met a grand total of zero times in the timeframe of a whole semester. That’s a lot of days! Would investing approximately 60 minutes for your self-proclaimed “passion” be such a Herculean labor? Who knows!

Nevertheless, the club scene at Middlesex still thrives on — thanks to the clubs that actually do meet. While accounting for every single one of those would be impossible to do in a single article, below, the author presents a list of the best (in her opinion!) clubs on campus.

Baking Club

Book Lovers’ Club

Chess Club

Common Sense Club

Cooking Club

Creative Writing Club

Finance Club

Gender-Sexuality Alliance

Helping Hands

Improv Club

Indoor Track Club

Math Club

MX Music Festival

Nutrition Club

Photo Club

Physics Club

The Anvil

WSC Debate Club

Genetics-GenoMX

…to be honest, this list was chosen basically on the basis of having actually…met…noticeably.

The stats:

Total # of clubs “existing” (at least officially): 88

# of clubs on list: 19

% of clubs actually doing something: 19 / 88 = 21.6%

Nothing to say here, but numbers are numbers — and objectively I think we can all say that 21.6% is not really a majority.

But 19 is still a lot! These clubs provide spaces where individuals with shared interests can come together as a community. You don’t even have to officially join (if that sounds like too much commitment) — you’ve probably noticed that the majority of club events are just sign-ups or show-ups. Ultimately, it’s quite simple: clubs = low-stakes + high-fun.

So why not?

Morgan Kim