Breakfast with Dana Mead

I had breakfast this morning with Dana Mead, the Chairman of the  MIT Corporation, and a dozen other alumni of that distunguished institution.  In addition to the usual discussion of MIT's endowment and finances (it takes a lot of cash to keep places like that going) I learned a few really interesting facts:


- 47% of the entering students are women

- The Nuclear Engineering department is growing (maybe those sophomores know more than we do about where our energy is going to come from)

- There is a growing appreciation from the life sciences people of how they
need help from computer science and other engineering disciplines.