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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Dear Course 7, 7A, and Course 6-7 Majors:</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The <b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#183df9">mid-term advising period</font></b> is shortly upon us, starting
<u>one week from today</u>, <b>Wednesday, November 7th and runs until Wednesday, November 21st</b> (<b>Drop Date).</b> Please make an appointment with your faculty advisor for some time within this period. You can refer to the faculty profiles page on the <a href="https://biology.mit.edu/people">Biology
Department website</a> to find their office contact information. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">This is the ideal moment for you to bring up any issues that are affecting you personally and academically, as well as to review choices for courses in the upcoming semester, discuss ideas for your future career
plans, and to get to know your advisor better, particularly in terms of his/her professional background and areas of research. <b>Even if Biology is your secondary major or you are a Course 6-7 student, it is still important to regularly touch base with your
Course 7 advisor. Please take advantage of this time to meet with him/her. </b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Also, we ask that you bear in mind any changes <a href="http://mit.edu/registrar/reg/add-drop.html#drop">(</a><a href="http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/add-drop.html">i.e., changing status of registration or other
items</a>) that need to be approved by your advisor should be taken care of at this meeting, as it is leading up to Drop Date.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">All best,</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Joyce</font></div>
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<div>Joyce Roberge<br>
Undergraduate Program<br>
Biology Education Office 68-120<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
31 Ames Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
617-253-4718<br>
fax: 617-258-9329<br>
email: <a href="mailto:roberge@mit.edu">roberge@mit.edu</a></div>
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