Our MIT ground school class happens January 9-11, 2024. Why not come to Boston and spend three days learning everything that the FAA wants Private pilot certificate holders to know, plus some of the engineering behind the facts?
For this year, although MIT is not Ivy League, I’m going to try to apply standard Ivy League polices. You can be expelled from the class if you misgender anyone, but there will be no problem if you call for the elimination of Israel and the killing of all Jews (unless “the speech turns into conduct” says the Penn president). Please keep in mind that my pronouns are Absolutely/Fabulous. Depending on your financial circumstances, the course may be available at a $330,920 discount from the normal $330,920 cost of attending MIT for four years. Simply send a financial disclosure statement listing all of your checking accounts, your Social Security Number, and your online banking usernames/passwords to my records department in Lagos, Nigeria.
The student who scores highest on the final exam will win a new Tesla Cybertruck with a custom wrap:
Depending on your skin color, you might be invited to a party hosted by the Mayor of Boston:
A Wu administration official, on behalf of the mayor, mistakenly sent all Boston city councilors an email Tuesday inviting them to a holiday party that was meant exclusively for “electeds of color,” prompting an apology and mixed reactions.
Denise DosSantos, the mayor’s director of City Council relations, told the body’s “honorable members” that, “on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu,” she was cordially inviting each of them “and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon St.”
Approximately 15 minutes later, however, DosSantos sent out a follow-up email to city councilors, apologizing for the prior email, which was apparently only meant for those who were invited. The body includes seven white councilors and six of color.
“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding a Holiday Party for tomorrow,” DosSantos, a Cape Verdean Black woman, wrote. “I did send that to everyone by accident, and I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”
Must get boring teaching the same class for so many years, but even core algorithms, data structures, & security must become trivial after teaching it for a while.
lion: MIT students are never boring! It probably would be a drag to teach this every month, but I’m close enough to Joe Biden in senility that there is plenty of material that, after a year of not looking at it, seems new. Plus we have different guest lecturers every year.
I would love it and would definitely attend if you would offer an IFR ground school.
Will you have the guest lecture from Ukraine covering “International regulations concerning strapping a bomb to your unmanned aerial vehicle, including theory and practice”?
a note to readers Pavel is a foreigner who has admitted to election interference. When will the menace from the north stop?
Unfortunately, my plans of interfering have hit a obstacle, someone has already registered the http://www.itrump.com website.
Phil,
It looks like (based on your posts on this blog) , you do not like these Liberal colleges/Cities. Why do you still teach at these college, instead can’t you teach this at a conservative place of your liking.
Anon: I think we’ve already established here that there are almost no conservative American colleges! https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2023/11/08/are-there-good-four-year-liberal-arts-colleges-that-arent-liberal/
Where would you suggest? A school where the faculty is 85% Democrats instead of 95%?
Any of Florida colleges like UF, FGCU and some in Mississippi are lot more conservative than MIT.
If I come to the class wearing a mask will you stick a camera in my face to document me for this blog? Will you intentionally cough in my general direction, and then snicker under your breath at your own cleverness? CDC predicts that week of class to be the peak of this eighth wave of Covid due to post holiday infections.
Mike: I think you’re safe for this year because my phone’s memory will be used up with photos of the pro-Hamas rallies in Cambridge and Boston!
Will there be a virtual online version of the MIT ground school class?
For those of us unable or too afraid to travel to the dangerous city of Boston.
a note to readers Pavel is a foreigner who has admitted to election interference. When will the menace from the north stop?
Pavel: I don’t think it makes sense to have a virtual version (we did those in 2021 and 2022) since we have the 2019 recordings for anyone who wants to do the class asynchronously.
This is a wonderful class and I benefitted from the virtual edition in 2022. The class is inspiring and I recommend it to anyone thinking of learning more about aviation.