<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><b style="font-size: large; ">Dear Course 7, 7A, and Course 6-7 Majors:</b></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><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 this <b>Thursday, April 10th </b>and runs until<b> Thursday, April 24th </b>(<b><a href="http://mit.edu/registrar/reg/add-drop.html">Drop Date</a>).</b> <i>If you have not done so already</i>, 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><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><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. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><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><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><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. This would be the ideal time to go through the </font><a href="http://mit.edu/registrar/reg/add-drop.html#general"><font size="4">online add/drop</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> process with your advisor if you are planning to drop a class. </font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">All best,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Joyce</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><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><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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