Saturday, December 2, 2000: TCS goes on its monthly brunch run. Later that evening, TCS participates in the Asian American Association's annual Cultural Extravaganza, serving scallion pancakes and sending its Chinese Yo-Yo Club team to perform in the event's cultural show.

Saturday, December 9, 2000: BITSA holds an intercollegiate day of service, sending volunteers to the Greater Boston Food Bank to sort food supplies in advance of the winter holiday season. TCSers in attendance include Gloria Hou, Dennis Hsieh, Christina Jenq, David Lee, Helen Lo, Terry Shih. Joined by alumni Henry Hsieh and Lewis Shi as well as other BITSA member school students from Boston University, Harvard Medical School, MIT, and Wellesley, the BITSA group is split up into a variety of groups (first-sorters, second-sorters, QCs in charge of quality control, and loader's assistants) by food bank staff and being briefed on the finer points of food classification ("Remember, tomato paste is tomato, canned tomato is tomato, tomato sauce is tomato, but tomato soup is NOT tomato."), and manages to sort enough food (mostly donated as unsellable by area supermarkets, though frequently for only cosmetic reasons) to feed 5400 people. Quite an accomplishment, and made even more remarkable given the difficulty many had even getting to the food bank in the first place. Letting the others go ahead of him that morning, Henry had waited in Harvard Square for Christina, who had overslept, and then behind the main group by nearly a half-hour, the two had taken the bus to the Boston University Medical Center area, walking the rest of the way to the food bank only to discover that none of the rest of the Harvard contingent had arrived yet, and in fact none of MIT or Wellesley students either. All had apparently gotten lost along the way, with the TCSers in particular wandering around for quite some time in the general area, only finally getting their bearings when lead guide Helen Lo describes their destination to a helpful passerby as "near the jail".

Monday, December 11, 2000: TCS holds an informal discussion on the history of Taiwan, going beyond present-day security issues to focus on the island's unique background from the waves of immigration from China to Japanese occupation and more. The discussion features Alan Wachman, assistant professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Coordinator of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University's Fairbank Center.

Friday, December 15, 2000: TCS holds a tea and karaoke night in Loker Commons.

Wednesday, January 23, 2001: TCS rings in the Lunar New Year with a cooking workshop in DeWolfe Common Room, featuring the making (and eating, of course) of tang-yuan and nian-gao.

Tuesday, January 30, 2001: Taiwanese activist Tim Chng leads a workshop on Taiwanese and Taiwanese-American history at Boston University's School of Communications. As part of the BITSA lecture series, the event is attended by students from all the various BITSA member schools, including Harvard TCSers Gloria Hou, Dennis Hsieh, Carey Hsu, Christina Jenq, Helen Lo, and Alex Young.

Friday, February 16, 2001: TCS holds its fourth annual Winterfest, this year led by first-year representative David Lee and again held in Quincy Dining Hall.

Saturday, February 24, 2001: The Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations holds its annual Cultural Rhythms cultural show, hosted this year by action star Jackie Chan, and food festival.

Sunday, February 25, 2001: TCS holds its annual elections. Social chair Vicki Chou and interethnic representative Dennis Hsieh run unopposed for the co-presidency and are elected. First-year representative David Lee is elected secretary while BITSA '99 publicity chair Alex Young is elected educational and cultural chair along with officer board newcomer Chieh-Ting Yeh. First-year representative Christina Jenq is elected interethnic representative. Newcomers to the officer board are treasurer Ina Wu, publicity co-chairs Helen Chou and Terry Shih, public relations and social chair Krystle Wang, and Harvard Foundation representative Sophia Lai.

Thursday, March 1, 2001: TCS schedules a screening of City of Sadness in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the 2-28 Incident in the Eliot House Junior Common Room. What is not realized ahead of time though, is that the Eliot JCR lacks a television, and so regrettably, the event has to be postponed pending the later booking of a more suitable location.

March 3, 2001: While at the 2001 ITASA Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Dennis Hsieh, Christina Jenq, and Sophia Lai successfully present and defend TCS's bid entitled "Reflections: Looking Within to Reach Beyond" to host the 2002 conference, winning over a competing bid from Cornell University's Taiwanese-American Society. They are supported in the bid presentation and in preparation of the initial written bid proposal by Carey Hsu, Henry Hsieh, Vicki Chou, Gloria Hou, David Lee, Helen Lo, Terry Shih, Ina Wu, Ting Yeh, and Alex Young. They are additionally supported by digital photographer Silas Wang and presentation/bid critiquers Frances Chang, Yu-Han Chang, Chienlan Hsu, Flora Kao, Roy Kao, Loretta Kim, Jenny Shen, Karen Tseng, Kenny Wang, and Seng Yang.

Friday, March 23, 2001: TCS puts out a call for applications for staff members and committee chairs for the 2002 Harvard ITASA Conference planning committee.

Friday, April 13, 2001: Along with the help of the Harvard Asian American Brotherhood, Chinese Students Association, Japan Society, Korean Association, South Asian Association, Harvard Vietnamese Association, and TCS, the Harvard Hong Kong Club holds a games night featuring various board & chess games, mahjong, taro cards, casino games, Chinese yo-yo, drinking games, and arts & crafts.

Saturday, May 5, 2001: TCS holds its spring senior farewell picnic. In addition to the usual frisbee tossing, partaking of Harvard Dining Services-provided sandwiches, chips, and soda, and general mingling & photo-taking, the officer board hands out ceramic rice bowls to graduating seniors Jaynie Chen, Tina Chen, Shelley Day, Karen Guo, Chanda Ho, Carey Hsu, Charles Lin, and others, and also to former senior Henry Hsieh. "To go with your chopsticks from last year," they tell him...

Sunday, May 6, 2001: BITSA holds its annual spring picnic, olympics, and executive board elections. Originally planned to be held on the Boston Common, the venue is shifted to Harvard's JFK Park when it is realized that the Boston Walk for Hunger is to take place that same day, with the starting and finish lines located right on the Common. In any event, the BITSA picnic features a variety of events including various relay races, frisbee tossing, volleyball, and even a water balloon fight. During the elections portion of the afternoon, Wellesley College's Pearl Chan and Boston University's Andy Yang are elected BITSA co-presidents, while Boston University's Grace Hsieh is elected BITSA treasurer and MIT's Shu-Chyng You is elected BITSA secretary.

Tuesday, May 8, 2001: TCS finally holds its long-postponed screening of City of Sadness in Loker 29.

Friday-Saturday, May 11-12, 2001: TCSer Dennis Hsieh and TCS alumni Henry Hsieh and Randy Wu join students from other BITSA schools along with people from around the Boston area to participate in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life to raise funds for cancer treatment and research. In the event, teams of 8-15 people take turns walking or running around a track for 18 hours as a show of support and solidarity with cancer patients who fight their disease every day.