About the Underground Guide

The guide is published each term by Eta Kappa Nu. Our goal is to serve the undergraduates of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (Course VI) at MIT by providing information that would be otherwise hard to obtain. We hope that students will find the guide in deciding which term to take a required subject, what recitation section to get into, and what electives to take.

As a secondary goal, we hope to provide the Course VI faculty with feedback from their students. We hope they will consider what their students said here when planning future terms.

The entire staff, from the authors of the individual write-ups to the editors, consists of students in Course VI. The authors of this document have tried to produce the most candid, accurate assessment of the subjects possible. No one outside of HKN has editorial control over the contents of the guide, and the guide in no way presents official Course VI policy or the position of the administration of Course VI.

Each term we try to evaluate as many subjects as possible. We are limited by several factors. We don't have enough people to do everything. Some subjects weren't offered this term. Some professors will not let us evaluate their subjects until almost the end of the term (this means that the evaluation will not appear until next term) or won't let us evaluate them at all. For subjects which were not evaluated this term but are being offered next term, we have re-printed the most recent evaluation.

The names, prerequisites, and hours (class, lab, prep) given are not the official ones; you can look that up in the MIT Bulletin. Instead, we present what the students surveyed thought was appropriate. The lecturer listed is the lecturer for the term the subject was evaluated (also given), which is not necessarily this term. The lecturer listed for next term is based on the best information available to us at press time, and is unofficial and definitely not final. Often only the one professor in charge of a subject is known, even though the subject will be taught by more than one person. ``Not Offered'' means the subject will not be offered the next semester. The ratings are either on a scale of 1 to 7 or 1 to 10; the scale used is denoted in the review. Following the compilation of student opinion, a few quotations from the questionnaires are given which were selected both for their relevance and for their elegance.

Extra copies of the guide are available in the Course VI Undergraduate Office, 38-476.