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...drop courses. Two of the insider tickets have platform points that would mean major changes in the Registrar’s office. The platform of Andrea R. Flores ’10 suggests changing freshman grading to “pass/no record”, similar to the system at MIT. Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 advocates in his presidential platform extending the add/drop deadline from five weeks to eight weeks. Both such changes would require approval by a vote of the Faculty, which could require more than a year of committee wrangling and cajoling administrators. Schwartz and running...
These solar devices, produced by wireless network provider Meraki, were conceived as part of a Ph.D. project at MIT in 2006. They boast their own solar panel and solar-charged batteries and aim to improve the operation of large outdoor wireless networks, such as the one installed in Harvard Square last summer...
Apparently, some of our peers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a deal with the digital devil. In exchange for a free Windows Mobile “smartphone,” about 100 MIT students have agreed to allow researchers at the Media Lab to track their every digital move, including phone calls, e-mails, and text messages. The scientists at the Media Lab are not working for the students’ families, significant others, or the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, all of this data is being used to explore a new field known as collective intelligence...
...Flores and McLeod say their own difficult, at times even “terrifying,” transitions to Harvard from communities that they felt did not adequately prepare them academically led them to consider proposing a pass/no-record system for first-semester freshmen—a system MIT has in place—as a way of easing the first-year experience...
...likelihood of implementing this plan is questionable. Last month, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds—a former MIT graduate student and professor—challenged the feasibility of a transition to this grading system at the College when the issue was raised at a tea she held for undergraduates...