MIT OpenCourse Ware : Revisited

Hey Guys.

The MIT OpenCourseWare is a really terrific resource that we can use for free to improve our educational experience. From there, you can download course files, projects, assignments, and even mp3s and videos of real life MIT lecturers teaching a class. For me it’s really cool to see what it it’s like to take a course at MIT. I love it! Though what I really like about the MIT OCW is that everything is FREE. And you can expect some TOP and cutting edge knowledge from the best engineering school in the world.

What I do is I download the mp3s of lecturers from the lessons that I want to study about. Just yesterday I downloaded a lesson about Graphic Engineering and I copied the file to my handphone. So while I’m on my motorcycle or while I’m not particularly busy, all I have to do is put on my headphones and get MIT’s knowledge transfered to me with full USB 2.0 capabilities directly to me brain, hehehe…. Well, you know what I mean.

Internet Access?

Electrical Engineering has finally implemented the security login for our Internet access. Hooray!! Honestly though, I’m surprised that EE hasn’t gotten this years ago. In American universities, when you want to connect to the Internet, you always have to put in your student ID and password. Of course, this student ID has access to virtually anything academically related, from your inputing classes, to paying your tuition. We’re not there yet, but this is a pretty huge step forwards.

I attended the socialization ’seminar’ yesterday afternoon, just before going to pick up a Linux Ubuntu CD at UPN’s Feisty Party. The seminar was pretty empty, not many people came. Maybe because they didn’t know, or just didn’t care. No idea. Anyways, in the seminar we were told baby steps on how to use the new system, including how the passwords would affect the proxy server. Pretty simplistic in my opinion. I would have liked if they explained the background behind the program, even though I could tell that this was mainly budget oriented. From the lines, it seems that the main goal is to limit the use of bandwidth in EE because in the past, no matter how many times they upgraded it, the bandwidth just couldn’t handle the load. So in this semester, we can still use the bandwidth unlimitedly (hopefully), just that there’s a password involved. Now the problem is, next semester, there’s going to be a limit on the bandwidth of each student using an EE account. Which sucks hard a**. Pardon my french .