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Not ‘Just Visiting’: First-Years Here to Stay MIT students like a challenge, and navigating the maze of choices facing a first-year student provides a taste of things to come. Fortunately, help is on the way, and undergraduate and graduate orientations are designed to help acclimate new students. A Mission To Bring Smiles To Boston In a city marked by subway bomb scares, high temperatures and humidity, and the usual stresses of life, one man stands in the middle of Haymarket Square in the sultry heat urging people to be happy. Research Associate Shin-Kyu Yang's Death A Suicide MIT research associate Shin-Kyu Yang, 44, PhD ’99 committed suicide on July 10. MIT Student Zachary Weston Disappears on Mount Rainier Mount Rainier National Park Rangers called off their search for Zachary Weston ’06 on Thursday, Aug. 18, according to an Grad Students Now Pay $17 For Off-Campus Phone Service Information Systems & Technology has moved graduate student dormitory phones to a new service model, which requires a $17 per month fee for students to receive calls from outside campus and place calls to off-campus numbers. Sustenance for Your Grocery Needs: a Food Guide Without Mom around to cook dinner or produce those trusty after-school snacks, and with limited dining options at MIT, it’s time to hit the grocery stores and start cookin’. It won’t be long before you start craving a homemade dinner or familiar midnight snack. MIT Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory Makes a New Type of Ice Cream that Goes ‘Whoof’ On Your Tongue Like many great scientific discoveries, Teresa Baker’s breakthrough in MIT’s grimy Cryogenic Engineering Laboratory last October was punctuated by a memorable exclamation of victory. She raced upstairs from the first-floor lab and announced to her fellow graduate students: “I made ice cream, come down and eat it!” No Experience? No Problem: Sports for Beginners Welcome, freshmen, to Orientation. In the coming weeks dozens of groups, including sports, will solicit your participation. Those of you who participated in sports in high school may join the same varsity sports at MIT; you, however, are not my primary audience. I’m speaking to those students who never considered playing sports. My message is simple: even if you never considered joining a sport team before, you can still join one now, as you begin your college career. textbooks
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