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GUNTHER ROLAND: So over
the last few, last couple

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of years, Sean Robinson and
I have made a few changes

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to the 8.14 curriculum to
really are differentiate it more

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from 8.13 But I mean, a change
that happened a number of years

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ago, five years ago, was
sort of the introduction

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of this exploratory project.

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But then in the last few
years, what we decided to do

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was add yet another
communication component,

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namely, the poster session.

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As the students move
on to graduate school,

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posters are one of the
communication forms

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they will have to use at
conferences, et cetera.

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And I think, like for the
papers and the presentations

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in 8.13, the
poster, I mean, when

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you have to start for the
first time with a blank slate,

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I think it is very different
to find the appropriate form.

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So we thought it would be very
good to practice that in 8.14.

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And the reason we made this
change is that 8.14 competes

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for the students' time with
many other things they can do,

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including taking UROPs,
which they feel, correctly,

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are important for
their future career.

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And we felt that we need
to revamp 8.14 a little bit

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to really make it worth
the students' time,

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to give them something
on which they

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can build for their
graduate school

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applications and their
work as graduate students.

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And I think many of the--

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essentially, all of the students
that take 8.14 in the end,

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move on to graduate
school in physics.

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And the new components, I
think, really help them,

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in both rounding out
their application

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and in developing some tools
that they will use later

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on as graduate students.