Designing Your Life
David Mindell, Lauren Zander, Gaby Jordan
Mon Jan 25, Wed Jan 27, Fri Jan 29, 01-04:00pm, E51-335
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 20-Jan-2010
Limited to 75 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This course (formerly called “Living an Extraordinary Life”) provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. This course deeply addresses what it takes to succeed, and to be proud of your life and happy in it. You will tackle career satisfaction, money, your body, vices, your relationship to yourself. Address your own life and how you live it and learn from it. An inquisitive nature and willingness to face the truth are required.
Web: http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/311-span-classhighlightlivingspan-span-classhighlightanspan-span-classhighlightextraordinaryspan-lifemit
Contact: Nicole Suhrie, (724) 301-4846, nsuhrie@mit.edu
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Science Fiction: Foretelling the Future?
Prof. Rosalind Williams
Wed Jan 13, 02-04:00pm, E51-191
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2010
Single session event
Prereq: Read E.M. Forster's “The Machine Stops” before class
Many MIT students enjoy reading science fiction. Does it offer more than pleasure? Does it also have a value in understanding the present and foretelling the future? To answer such questions, we will discuss a fantasy short story, “The Machine Stops,” by E.M. Forster, which will be distributed on-line so students can read it before Jan. 13.
The story is startlingly prophetic: written a century ago (in 1909), it imagines a world organized around a Machine that resembles a contemporary supercomputer, or network of computers, pervading both institutional and personal life. We will discuss resemblances and limitations; the connections between the imagined Machine and human life; how current sci fi might or might not have prophetic value; and the general role of technology in history. Hot chocolate and nibbles will be served.
Contact: Rose Rizzo, E51-185, x3-4085, rizzo@MIT.EDU
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