Survey for admissions into 6.171 for Spring 2006.  Please return via
email, before January 2, 2006, to philg@mit.edu with a subject line of
"application for 6.171"

--------------- please place your responses between our questions

>> What is your year and major at MIT?

>> Describe the largest software system that you've personally built.

>> What experience do you have in setting up and maintaining operating
systems?

>> What experience do you have, if any, with setting up and maintaining
relational database management systems such as Postgres, Oracle, or SQL
Server?

>> What experience do you have, if any, with programming relational
database management systems in the SQL language?

>> What are your motivations for taking 6.171?  What do you hope to
accomplish with the skills that you acquire?

>> List a couple of your favorite Internet applications (can be plain
vanilla Web sites) and what you think is good/important about them.

>> List a couple Web sites or Internet applications that you think are
tastefully designed and what you think is tasteful about them.

>> Do you have a laptop computer that you can bring to the classroom?
[note that your answer to this question is for our planning; it will not
affect whether or not you are admitted into 6.171]

>> Do you already have a topic for the online learning that you're going
to build in 6.171?  A client/sponsor for this community?  If so, please
describe what you hope to build.  [This is not in any way a requirement
for the class but if there is a project that you desperately want to
build, and have a real client for, we'd like to hear about it early on.]

>> Do you already have a partner or partners in mind with whom you'd
like to work on the 6.171 project?  If so, please list these people by
name and email address.