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Lab Section Signup

Please ignore the registrar's lab section assignments... they will not be used*.

You must complete the on-line signup form to be assigned to a lab section and team. Registration for lab sections opens at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, September 7 following the first lecture and closes at 5 PM on Saturday, September 10.

The lab section assignments will be posted on the course website by 8:00 PM on Sunday, September 11.

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* There are 3 main reasons that we do not use the lab section assignments from the registrar:

i.	We want to make sure that all teams are the same size. While 2.009 is not a competition, students on significantly smaller teams have felt like they had an unfair burden.
ii.	We want to accommodate your lab time preferences but, at the same time, have a relatively random assignment process. In the past, we have found that teams with large blocks of friends tended to make decisions based on allegiance rather than technical merit.
iii.	Some of the lab instructors and mentors are outside experts. In order to accommodate their schedules we often need to shift the number of sections offered in a particular time slot after the schedule is published by the registrar.