1.016 | Terrascope

In Terrascope we built a museum about the Galapagos Islands. It convinced me that project-based learning is an incredibly effective method of teaching. The semester culminated in a trip to the Galapagos, the pictures of which you can see on the picture page. Ari Epstein and Rafael Bras taught, and by the end they seemed like extremely knowledgeable friends instead of professors.

18.03 | Differential Equations

Thankfully I had Arthur Mattuck for this class. I think his best trick all semester was to derive a complicated polar equation, which, when graphed, made a heart. He did this on Valentine's day. My favorite part of the class was the unit on Fourier and Lapace transforms, and resonance. We learned some pretty awesome stuff.

BE.010 | Introduction to Bioengineering

This was a laid-back little "lecture series" on topics in bioengineering, which ended with each student writing a paper detailinga cool new biotechnology they'd like to create. The lectures were kind of hit-or-miss, but some of them were totally fantastic - Angela Belcher's in particular.

8.02T | Electricity and Magnetism

This was my second experience with the TEAL format. I discovered that although the technology accounts for a lot of the class atmosphere, the professor really matters - and George Stephans, though a nice guy and a clear teacher, just wasn't inspiring at all. We did get to perform some really neat experiments with antennas, but overall, I wished we could have done more with circuits.

7.013 | Genetic Biology

I really enjoyed this class. I found it quite easy, but I also learned a lot. My favorite lectures were easily the Genetics of Cancer lectures, and also immunology, and cell signaling. Tyler Jacks and Hazel Sive co-taught, and they were very different people, so it was a good contrast.