Thank You and Signing Off

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TDLR: Free food Friday on Stud 4 at 2pm; Waffle Wednesday next week at noon. Free Menstrual Products available starting Friday. Administration accomplishments!

Hey Everyone,

On my final day as president, it brings me great pleasure to introduce the person I’m so proud to pass the baton to: your next student body president, a fellow course 10 (best major), and my good friend, Alice Hall.

Alice ran on a powerful vision: that student government should be for you, about you, and accessible to you.  She’s already shown what it means to lead with compassion, clarity, and a deep belief in putting student voices first. I’ve gotten to see Alice’s leadership blossom as UA Education co-chair, and her signature initiatives and work to increase faculty/student lunches access, organize semesterly faculty banquets, and offer education-based UA reimbursements has touched hundreds of students.

Alice is committed to making real changes that actually affect your life at MIT. Her leadership style is transparent, thoughtful, and relentless in its focus on putting students first. I couldn’t be more excited for what she and her team will build.

We’re in incredibly good hands.

To help celebrate the new administration, we’ll be hosting our final Free Food Friday at 2 pm on Stud 4 (we’ll have Chick-fil-A, Boba, and Bon Chon). Additionally, the final Waffle Wednesday will be next week at 12.

As we step down, I want to leave you with a snapshot of the work we, as students, organizers, and advocates, have accomplished together this year.

None of these wins happened alone. They happened because students showed up, at meetings, at town halls, in Senate chambers, and in Google Docs at 2 a.m., to build something better.

That’s how democracy works. Not as a grand gesture, but as the slow, methodical, and often-unseen work of people who care enough to keep showing up. And while this role draws to an end, I’m more convinced than ever that our best work is yet to come.

Dream big, be kind, and remember—every person is a world waiting to be understood.

Thanks for letting us be a small part of yours.

Love you all. Always.

Enoch and Rishika out

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National Wins

  *   Met with 10 Senate and Congressional offices from Texas, California, and Massachusetts to advocate for issues impacting students

  *   Worked with PBS and Roadtrip Nation to produce a upcoming documentary highlighting Black men in Higher Education

  *   Engaged in dialogue with the president of Howard University on building effective partnerships between student leaders and administrations

  *   Produced a New York Times op-ed<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/opinion/pell-grants-college-universities.html> with student leaders from the UCs,Villanova, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, WashU, Purdue and others urging congressional action to lower the cost of college

  *   Collaborated with the Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis to advance understanding across political and ideological differences

State/Local Wins

  *   Met and worked with Governor Healey and her team to defend the role of higher education and protect the rights and futures of international students

  *   Partnered with students from Amherst, Harvard, and Northeastern to testify in favor of ending legacy admissions<https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S928> in Massachusetts

  *   Worked with UMass schools and local NAACP units to join and recharter the  United States Student Association<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Student_Association>

  *   Crafted master plan for Boston Intercollegiate Government Collegiate Council to cultivate civic engagement among Boston’s diverse college student population

MIT Wins

  *   Provided over 35,000 free loads of laundry to students

  *   Returned $10,000 directly to students through budget surpluses

  *   Launched Signature UA Events including Participatory Budgeting, Quarterly Free Food Fridays, Waffle Wednesdays, and even brought a petting zoo to campus.

  *   Expanded access to high-quality menstrual products across campus

  *   Helped implement policies to increase quality of life for student veterans

  *   Advocated for student athletes, achieving major policy wins in ensuring every student athlete has access to quality food during IAP and at away games

  *   Partnered with the Chancellor, MIT Admissions, Vice Chancellor, and SOLE to close communication gaps between Latino Cultural Center, Black Student Union, Native American Indigenous Association, and American Indian Science and Engineering Society

  *   Helped bring back an on campus grocery store with wide selection and fairly-priced essentials

  *   Elevated food security concerns to MIT Corporation

  *   Increased collaboration with MIT’s Student Events Board, providing $40,000 to help bring Dayglow to campus

  *   Scored major wins in expanding student access to free/subsidized public transportation

  *   Partnered with the International Student Association to help make IFair more successful

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Enoch Ellis | Undergraduate Association President
Department of Chemical Engineering | Department of Mathematics

Rishika Bansal | Undergraduate Association Vice President

Department of EECS | Department of Political Science

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