<p>UMTYMP is completely correct. Although Math and Physics RECITATIONS are often taught by storied faculty (my roommate had a Nobel laureate for physics), Eric Lander is indeed the LECTURER for 7.012. Nonetheless, my larger point remains. Lander can teach whatever the heck he wants. And he CHOOSES to teach frosh. That regularly happens at MIT, and it does not happen at many of the schools which we compete with.</p>
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Totally agree. He could even choose not to teach – Eric Lander has zero need to play departmental politics. </p>
<p>I was in a small graduate-level seminar with one of the biology department’s Nobel laureates my sophomore year.</p>
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Totally agree. He could even choose not to teach – Eric Lander has zero need to play departmental politics. </p>
<p>I was in a small graduate-level seminar with one of the biology department’s Nobel laureates my sophomore year.</p>