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Ideas and Voices from MIT This Month: Site Seeing: The Web Class of 2003
May/June 2003
 

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Site Seeing:
The Class of 2003

Part 1: Peer Review

Part 2: Webbies and Bloggers

Part 3: Symphony of Spirits

Interviews

Anna Alexandra Dreyer '03
Co-president of MIT's Society of Women Engineers

Sina Kevin Nazemi '03
Involved in the McCain 2000 presidential campaign and the Jay Inslee campaign for U.S. Congress

Elizabeth Reed
Director of the MIT Careers Office

Sridhar Venkatesh '93
Director of product management and a founding member of Caymas Systems

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Symphony of Spirits

'03 is diverse. Interests range from quantum computing to ballroom dance, the Mole Dance Revolution to songwriting

Composer and singer Regaip Sen, EECS/music double major, invites web rovers to hear his music online. Sen wants to fuse computer science and musical production, a goal he realized working on Opera of the Future's Hyperinstrument projects. Sen, president of the MIT Songwriting Club, links to mp3s by student musicians.

Curious about life as a mechanical engineering major? Alison Wong's terrific photos under "MIT" show camaraderie in class and competitions. See "effective, efficient, yet 'cool' looking products" in Portfolio — and don't miss her artwork and the Integral Force comics she wrote for The Tech.

Catherine Shaw, management and economics double major, shares photos from freshman shower to recent visit to Australia. Also enjoy collected quotes, such as "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary," by Vidal Sassoon.

Projects such as a Lexan Water-War Shield and a Full-Communication Webcam occupied some of mechanical engineering major Adrian Bischoff's MIT days. Listen to music by his band, Where's Luke?

Jon Sheffi's tale of how he decided between Harvard and MIT deserves a read. The computer science and engineering/mathematics double major offers a test drive of his transportation software, ShipSmart.

Snowboarding and research. That's life for Ryan Wagar, president of TechSnow and a materials science and engineering major working on ferromagnetic shape memory alloys.

Tokumasa Yamashita, an electrical engineering major with a concentration in bioelectrical engineering, hosts great photos of the 6.270 robot competition.

Computer science major Sophia Han sports a balanced personal site — party photos, great family profile, quick facts and favorites.

Discover Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: "Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined" and other quotes on Filip Ilievski's web site. The materials science and engineering major is a ballroom dance competitor and a member of Hipco, a student team working to design a titanium-based hip implant.

Making Global Journeys

Glimpse student inventiveness — like Mole Dance Revolution — on management/EECS double major Rujira Hongladaromp's site. He helped create the Tangible Bits exhibit in Tokyo. His Thai links span the world.

Chemical engineering/management double major Selam Daniel devotes her home page to the Eritrean refugee crisis, particularly to striking photos of women and children.

Angela Bassa, mathematics major, takes a world view, in part by speaking six languages and now learning Arabic and sign language. President of the Brazilian Students Association, she conducted research on the impact of televised debates on Brazilian elections.

An animated Nepali flag flies on biology major Jay Shrestha's site. See his choice for the most beautiful mountain, Machhapuchhere, and other breathtaking Nepali photos under My Country. Under writings, find "Should We Allow Human Genes To Be Patented?"

A Muscovite, Eugenia "Zhenya" Trusova speaks five languages. As a EECS/linguistics major she worked in the Cognation Lab on how differences between Russian and English affect thinking.

EECS major Esther Jieun Yoo gives just the facts in English; click on her Korean site for more.

Research Reviewed

Mark Kastantin, a chemical engineering/brain and cognitive science double major, began working on National Institutes of Health research projects before starting MIT. Take a quick tour of his research from pulse pressure to neurochip development.

Jacob Gagnon, a mathematics/physics double major, plans to earn a PhD in applied mathematics. His web site provides a quick course on quantum computing and a links page for quantum computing, bioinformatics, and more.

About the Class of 2003

Class of 2003 Arrives on Campus

Class of 2003 Most Selective in History

Vest Welcomes Class of 2003 to MIT at Hacked Convocation

In Return to Tradition, Ring Will Not Feature a Female Figure

Sloan Class of 2003 profile

Favorite Senior Links

Anime Club

Association of Puerto Rican Students

Biology Undergraduate Students Association

Japanese Society of Undergraduates

MIT DramaShop

MIT European Club

MIT Korean Karate Club

MIT Society of Black Engineers

MIT Society of Women Engineers

Pakistani Students at MIT

Songwriting Club

Teatro Latino

TEPX Living Group

The Tech

VooDoo, MIT's only intentionally funny magazine


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