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The New York Times

"You want people who can communicate and who are going to be involved in different parts of campus life. You want them to be positive, but it’s not mandatory." - Dave McOwen, communication manager in the admissions office, on how MIT picks students for its admissions blogs
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The Boston Globe

All you have to do is drool over the beautiful orbs at the annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. - Story on the Glass Lab's annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale.
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The Wall Street Journal

"Having a very severe recession is going to cause a lot of people who would have stayed in the labor force to apply for disability." - David Autor, professor in the Department of Economics, on job losses in today's economy.
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The New York Times

"Taking someone who’s uninsured and giving them insurance unambiguously improves their health, but taking someone who’s well-insured and making them really well-insured doesn’t make them any healthier." - Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics, on the impact of health care reform
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The Boston Globe

"There was no financial gain for me. It was more of joining for a higher calling." - MIT junior and Staff Sergeant Alejandro Lopez on participation in an ROTC program.
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The Boston Globe

"They tilt toward the readability, sort of graphic artist influence, versus the engineer." - Nigel Wilson, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transit Research Program, on the MBTA's subway maps.
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CNN.com

"If they can recognize faces of people in a room, that brings them into the social environment as opposed to sitting there waiting for someone to talk to them." - Shawn Kelly, a researcher in MIT's Research Laboratory for Electronics
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Inside Higher Ed

"We have for a long time had two shorter essays on the application, and from those we got very direct, clear answers to our questions." - Dean of Admissions Stuart Schmill on a new way to write admissions essays.
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The New York Times

"The great advantage of the prize model is that it moves work away from the realm of the beauty contest to being performance-oriented." - Michael Schrage, research fellow at the Center for Digital Business at the Sloan School of Management, on Netflix's million-dollar prize competition.
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The Boston Globe

"Most people who are really active in the fight against poverty fundamentally are very keen to do the best thing." - Esther Duflo, J-PAL director, on her work. Duflo was recently honored with a MacArthur "genius" grant.
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"How do we rethink human-environment interactions in light of these mobile devices?" - Dale Joachim, a visiting scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, on a project that uses consumer electronics in the study of flora and fauna.
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The Boston Globe

"I’m really grateful for all the students and the postdocs and the collaborators I’ve had over the years that have made science really fun.’’ - Biochemist JoAnne Stubbe, on the announcement that she will receive a National Medal of Science
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PBS

"After all this administration has done to save the big banks, including bending over backwards to be nice to the CEOs of these banks, not a single individual can show up for the President's speech?" - Q & A with Simon Johnson on the most surprising effects of the financial crisis.
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Time

"Changing sides, realigning, flipping — whatever you want to call it — is the Afghan way of war." - MIT political scientist Fotini Christia on the war in Afghanistan.
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The Boston Globe

"Lately jazz has become more important to me because I’ve felt the need to experience that kind of performing." - Institute Professor John Harbison on his upcoming performance at Scullers Jazz Club.
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