Prof. Robert Jaffe
I just wanted to take this chance to praise Prof. Jaffe in the
highest possible terms. As my physics advisor for the past 4 years,
he has always been willing to take time out and talk to me whenever I
had a question or problem. He found for me an internship at CERN (see
my home page) which gave me the year off I
really needed before starting grad school. Not only that, but he's a
phenomenal teacher. I had him as a lecturer in 8.06, the advanced
mechanics course here at MIT, and felt he was the best physics
lecturer I had in my time at MIT, which is an opinion several other
students share with me, as was evidenced by his high ratings in the
Course Evaluation Guide. He was also the MIT Faculty Chair at
one point, and as such, helped to effect a compromise in the revision
of the academic calendar among many other things. What impressed me a
lot is that he asked my opinions on many student issues when I came in
to talk to him, just as a gauge of student opinion. He was unlike
many other professors who assume they know what the students are
thinking. Anyway, I just wanted to offer kudos on a job being
well done by Prof. Jaffe.
Eric Nehrlich's WWW home page / nehrlich@athena.mit.edu