Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record-high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets, and changes of power on Capitol Hill.
At MIT, we learned more about black holes, established the new MIT-Madrid study abroad program, learned more about the brain, designed better wheelchairs, created molecular libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology, designed fuel-efficient cars of the future, observed subatomic particles, won Nobel prizes, proposed changes to the undergraduate curriculum, began large scale genetic sequencing, and more!
Check out http://web.mit.edu/spotlight/lookback-2006/ for a look back at the spotlights.
So what’s in store for 2007? Any predictions? Any hopes? Comment away!
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Posted by: Hopeful on January 2, 2007
Im keeping my fingers crossed.
Posted by: gasthi on January 2, 2007
Posted by: Ben Williams on January 2, 2007
Posted by: Ben Williams on January 2, 2007
No matter which university we go to we will have fun!
Posted by: Jigar on January 2, 2007
Posted by: Guyomar on January 2, 2007
(no matter wether I am admitted or not)- because it is necessary for our world to develop!
And a political change in Europe...
Posted by: Mo on January 2, 2007
The little underdog WILL get back into the textbooks.
... or not.
But hopefully 2007 will see the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm thinking a Halloween release, but we'll see..
Posted by: Melissa '11 on January 2, 2007
Hopefully in 2007 a boy called Shashank will enter MIT...I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish I wish!!!!....n then...whatever will happen..will happen...
Posted by: Shashank on January 2, 2007
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Posted by: Sarah on January 2, 2007
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Posted by: Daniel on January 2, 2007
be amazed at all the things that have changed in the past few years- our kids are going to think we're so old when we talk about the 9 planets that we learned in 1st grade!
Posted by: Elizabeth on January 3, 2007
Posted by: Ying Wei on January 3, 2007
The list's really too long!
Posted by: Sarab on January 3, 2007
njoyed
Posted by: bhushan on January 3, 2007
Posted by: Achilles on January 3, 2007
Posted by: Achilles on January 3, 2007
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Posted by: Germany on January 3, 2007
Iam a 11th class student from kerala...I would like to join in mit for aerospace engineering on year 2008...But i don't know what to do...I decided to clear SAT mathe matics level 1 and SAT physics and TOFEL...But i dont know how to prepare for these exams...Can you please send the topics for these exams and what i have to do after clearing exams for the admission..
and i would like to contact you my email id:hannapunnssery@yahoo.co.in
Posted by: pennutty on January 5, 2007
Since when has JK done a schoolyear release? I'm betting on 7-7-7 (July 7th, 2007). Either way, I'm soooo stoked to read the last novel.
What else for 2007? I'm hoping for an MIT acceptance letter... (please?) But honestly, I just hope this next year is the best one yet, no matter what happens with college decisions!!
Posted by: Alyssa on January 6, 2007
May 2007 be a year full of hacks and discovery.
Posted by: international boy on January 7, 2007
Posted by: abhi on January 7, 2007
Posted by: abhi on January 7, 2007
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