From a bureaucratic point of view, ESG is a program for first year students at MIT. ESG teaches MIT's core curriculum subjects to small groups of students in a variety of small, informal class/tutorial/self study settings. Bureaucrats don't know much; if you really want to know, visit.

I joined ESG as a student in the spring of 1979 because I preferred reading comic books to attending lectures. Now I teach at ESG; I make all my students come to class, or I flunk them. Go figure.

I tend to teach the writing courses at ESG: 21W.730 in the fall, and 21W.735 in the spring (spring 2008 is the next projected instance of 21w735 at ESG).
I also teach physics, varients of both 8.01 and 8.02.
If there is demand, during the fall of 2006, Dave will teach 8.01 Sports, basically the 8.01 curriculum with labs that take place in the gym, the track, and the swimming pool. The objective is to develop a literally physical intuition for mechanics.
And often Dave teaches ESG's teaching seminar.

During the term, I have been known to bake cookies for public consumption. Cookies are liable to appear in the evenings. If the weather is nice, the cookies will appear after dusk. I have also been hosting a weekly dinner. I bring food; participants cook, eat, and clean up. These days, Alex Slocum hosts these dinners.

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