<p>believer: I graduated by the time you took 8.01. I don’t know if anyone failed when I took it, I just know that class ave was usually very low. I DID like 8.01. Lot’s of really cool demonstrations. I remember the demo with the hunter and the monkey in the tree. When he shoots, the monkey drops. We proved on the blackboard in 26-100 mathemetically that the bullet hit the monkey. Then he had a stuffed monkey that dropped from the ceiling when he fired a BB gun. It worked just like the equations. Really cool. French was the prof, I think. Next year’s class was better, though. I heard thet the cutest girl in the class streaked down the isle, courtsied to the prof, gave the prof a rose and then ran out the side door at the front! In 8.02 the prof asked for a volunteer to enter a steel cage; then he applied about a zillion volts (buzz, sparks) – no death, just like the equations and theory said. 8.03 was cool when the prof put a frozen hot dog into a huge box, he turned a dial, and the dog came out smoking and cooked. It was a new fangled contraption now called a “microwave oven”. Getting paper for the computer printers was always a problem, if you were lucky enough not to have to use a computer with punch cards (watch out climbing the stairs for fear of dropping them and mixing the order).</p>