Funnily enough, I have the 6.437 notes from Spring 2015. You can download them here (link should be good for 2 months). I never actually took the class, and I can't for the life of me remember where I got these notes. I think someone posted them to the course 6 Facebook page, and I saved them to get an idea of what the class would be like.
Pretty sure nothing is blocked.
People have gotten "dude don't download stuff" emails in the past after downloading stuff.
If you get a VPN they have no way of knowing what you're doing. I recommend Private Internet Access.
On OS X, open up the Terminal application.
Now mail sent to your MIT email will be delivered to your Gmail inbox, and you can reply using your MIT address. You can also make your MIT email your 'default' address in Gmail in the 'Accounts and Import' settings of Gmail, so that any email you send is by default sent from your MIT address.
PM / comment if you have issues.
According to this TechCrunch article, doj.gov is also a redirect for DOJ website.
Someone on Quora asked this exact question two years ago: https://www.quora.com/Should-I-go-to-Harvard-Stanford-or-MIT-for-CS-undergrad
Check it out. There are replies from students from both universities.
As a visiting student I spared myself the headache and just used The Mullvad VPN to route my traffic through the Netherlands or Sweden. Living group media servers are a good point though - depends where you live I guess.
Prof. Caplice has previously used Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling by Silver, Pyke and Peterson to teach the flagship SCM class.
Yeah. Many people don't know that George Eastman committed suicide. http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-very-concise-suicide-note-by-kodak-founder-george-eastman-my-work-is-done-why-wait-1932.html
Also, at a certain point he felt he had done enough for MIT and he stopped. If I remember my research on this from earlier, he said something like "My work is done here."
Not sure about that, but there is an amazing course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
that is about functional programming and is taught by the creator of the scala language. Check it out :)
This link was on the /opensource sub Reddit https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Apparently Blender was having issues with YouTube because they wanted to force them to monetize. I dont know if this is the cause though.
IAP language classes are generally hard, but I would say Korean is the easiest compared to the other classes over IAP. If you have prior hangul knowledge, IAP Korean won't be difficult at all. Korean I uses this textbook and workbook.
The general recommendation for freshman fall is 3 technicals/GIRs and a CI-H. That being said, IAP will most definitely be remote and virtual, and it's not certain which classes will be offered. You should ask the professor whether IAP Korean will be happening.
If you're just biking around campus/Central Sq, you really don't need that many gears. For something affordable, a used single speed/fixie is pretty easy to maintain. If you are going to be living around some parts of Somerville or commuting a farther distance you probably want to spring for something a bit fancier. There is a free and for sale group on facebook(bikes pop up on there often enough), and I think MIT police still does a bike auction in the fall? If you can't wait for that, Cambridge Used Bicycles is where I got my first one, like /u/thefunk3 suggested.
Make sure that all parts of your bike are secured onto the frame! This got my friends and myself a couple of times - people will take your front wheel, the seat, whatever isn't bolted on (i.e. on a quick release). Make sure that when you use your U-lock it is going through both your frame and your front wheel, or use a u-lock and a cable lock to secure everything together. I personally use this, and I find it has just enough room to secure everything(especially with thicker parking meter stems)but I can't recommend anything longer since I've heard people use the extra space to get more torque to break the lock.
I found Stewart's Calculus book very helpful in 2004-2005 when I took 18.01-02. The examples were some of the best I ever found, and the explanations were very good. I used the 4th edition, but more editions have been released since. You can probably get an old copy for cheap or check it out at the library.
Books are kind of a boring gift, but this one is really good. Don't get it if he's taken 6.131 or 6.115, since he may have it already in that case.