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		abecedarius on June 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You may use your class notes and Feynman Not necessarily. Tests were on the honor system at Caltech (and I suppose still are). You typically took them in your dorm room.

CamperBob on June 30, 2009 [–]

So there's only one class at the entire school, called "Google 101"?

abecedarius on June 30, 2009 | [–]

Heh. I remember one open-book midterm in particular: my score of 56% got a B.

Michael Nielsen's conducting a different sort of Google 101 here: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?page_id=503

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