User:Almonds
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About me
| Room | W303 |
| Year | 2020 |
| Major | Electrical engineering & computer science (6-2) |
| Minor | Brain & cognitive sciences (9) |
| HASS concentration | Archaeology and archaeological science (3) |
- Hobbies? Being with friends, writing stories, playing video games, creating video games, complaining about bureaucracy.
- What games? Couch co-op, horror, Pokémon, Minecraft, really old games.
- Comms? I have been a part of AVComm, KitchenComm, Fruit Comm, and MovieComm.
- Favorite foods? Steak.
- Favorite music? Trap, hardstyle, heavy metal, happy hardcore, nightcore, EDM, or really anything so long as it sounds good™.
- Want to hear a joke? Why did the man fall into the well?-- Because he could not see that well
- Have more questions? Talk with me, I'm usually at Floor Pi.
- Have too few questions? See here.
My Courseroad
My home is a lovely suburban area in Northern California. Not only did I move to Massachusetts to complain for several years about its inferior weather, but also to study at MIT. This is my courseroad:
Prior credit
Freshman year
Fall
- 3.091 Intro to solid-state chemistry
- 8.01 Physics I
- 12.000 Solving complex problems
- 18.022 Multidimensional vector calculus
- 21W.031 Communicating science & technology
Spring
- 1.016 Complex environmental issues
- 7.014 Intro biology
- 8.02 Physics II
- 18.03 DiffyQ
- 18.05 Intro to probability & statistics
Summer
- UROP in Materials science & engineering
3.091 in the Fall got me interested in majoring and UROPing in course 3, which is what I declared at the end of freshman year.
Sophomore
Fall
- UROP in Materials science & engineering
- 6.152[J] Micro/nano processing technology
- 6.002 Circuits & electronics
- 21W.747 Rhetoric
By this time, I've decided I'm a course 6. I ended up helping my graduate student by coding an algorithm that uses statistical and machine learning techniques anyway. I chose 6-2 for a few reasons, including that I was confused between the differences between 6-2 and 6-3. I'm more of a 6-2⅖ in the end.
Spring
- 3.987 Human evolution
- 6.003 Signals & systems
- 9.00 Intro to psychological science
- Lab assistant for 6.002
I didn't take any HASS classes in freshman Spring, so I decided to take two this semester.
Summer
I worked on personal projects back home in California. I might write more here later.
Junior
Fall
- 6.034 Artificial intelligence
- 6.036 Machine learning
- 6.S081 Human computational intelligence
- 6.801 Machine vision
- 9.85 Infant & early childhood cognition
Instead of 6.S081, I actually wanted to take 21M.361 Electronic Music Composition I. I attended their final project concert the previous semester and was inspired. (1), I'm a fan of electronic music and would like to have a taste of producing it professionally, and (2), it's already my Junior year and I still need to satisfy the HASS-A requirement. Sadly, it didn't fit my schedule. So instead, I signed up for 21M.080 Introduction to Music Technology, a brand new HASS-A subject at the time, teaching material similar to 21M.361. I was kicked out due to over-enrollment. I had to push my HASS-A to my senior year. I took 6.S081 instead, a rewarding class with Bob Berwick, which, by petition, helped partially satisfy my major's AUS2 requirement. I'm still salty though.
I also recommend 6.034 with Patrick Winston. For AI, Patrick is the person to go to; and the grad students running behind the scenes put love into that class.
For Splash, I cotaught a class on chocolate science & truffle making.
I decided to minor in BCS, since I'm interested in BCS, I've already taken a few of the required classes, and CS and BCS make a great pair.
IAP
- 21G.901 Korean I
I also signed up for 6.S097 Introduction to Julia (the programming language), as I had heard about it from Deniz Yuret's talk on Knet in 6.034. By email, I was told to drop the class for going over a credit limit of 12 units. I immediately asked if it could be changed to listener status and did not hear a response until after 6.S097 was over, so I never attended any of their classes. (You can in fact take a class as listener during IAP without setting off this credit limit warning.) I'm salty.
I also participated in a student-led American Sign Language course.
Spring
- 6.08 Intro to EECS via interconnected embedded systems
- 6.UAT Oral communication in EECS
- 3.094 Materials in human experience
- 3.985 Archaeological science
- Lab assistant for 6.002
6.08? An Introductory EECS subject? Finally! I've been wanting to take 6.08 as my Introductory EECS subject since sophomore year, but it never fit my schedule! Due to this, this class was the most forgiving I've ever had. I am a big fan of the Internet of Things. 6.002 is a good continuation of 6.08.
My freshman year, there was a HASS concentration in BCS; now all evidence of it seems to have disappeared. I had to shift gears this semester and choose to concentrate in archaeology, since it interests me and I've already taken 3.987. I had to squash so many of my precious course 9 subjects into next year and take three more HASS classes than planned. Yes, I'm salty.
TBD.
Summer
- UROP in 6-2. TBD.
Senior
Fall
I plan to take some strict subset of the following, most likely with a cardinality of 6:
- 9.01 Intro to neuroscience
- 6.021[J] Cellular neurophysiology and computing
- 9.46 Neuroscience of morality
- 9.49 Neural Circuits for Cognition
- 9.66 Computational Cognitive Science
- 3.986 Intro to archaeology
- 6.UAR SuperUROP
- CMS.307 Critical Worldbuilding
By far the most scheduling conflicts I've encountered occur at 11:00a-12:30p. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
CMS.307 is a HASS-A that actually fits my schedule.
Spring
I will probably be taking a strict subset of the following with a cardinality of 5:
- 9.40 Intro to neural computation
- 6.UAR SuperUROP
- 6.006 Intro to Algorithms
- 18.04 Complex Variables with Applications
- 18.330 Intro to Numerical Analysis
- 18.781 Theory of Numbers
Personal projects
TBD.
