ESP Biography



MURTAZA NEK, MIT junior of Mathematics and Physics.




Major: Mathematics

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a dude w/ 2 brothers and 2 sisters born and raised in South Florida. My older sis went to MIT, and my younger sis is currently attending Stanford. My (twin) brothers are in high school right now.

My interests are largely academic, but they vary widely and randomly sometimes. My hobbies are swimming, basketball, mathematics, physics, programming, and planting plants, among various other random things that come and go (e.g., I once was into pigeon-egg-stealing-and-hoping-that-the-soon-to-be-baby-pigeon-would -look-at-me-when-it-was-born-so-that-I-could-be-its-parent-through-imprinting, though I tried it once and it never worked out).

-Murtaza



Past Classes

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X2211: Surviving an Apocalypse in Spark! Spring 2009 (Mar. 07, 2009)
What would you do with your last hours of freedom if an alien species took over Earth and enslaved the human race? Or if a tsunami wiped out the Eastern coast of the United States, resulting in mass migrations (and land riots) of unprecedented magnitude? Would you have what it takes to survive? Put your creative thinking skills to the test in this class, where you'll discuss strategies and methods of surviving apocalypses! Come unassuming, leave thinking about hypotheticals you never thought you would.


X2213: Surviving an Apocalypse in Spark! Spring 2009 (Mar. 07, 2009)
What would you do with your last hours of freedom if an alien species took over Earth and enslaved the human race? Or if a tsunami wiped out the Eastern coast of the United States, resulting in mass migrations (and land riots) of unprecedented magnitude? Would you have what it takes to survive? Put your creative thinking skills to the test in this class, where you'll discuss strategies and methods of surviving apocalypses! Come unassuming, leave thinking about hypotheticals you never thought you would.


S1977: Surviving an Apocalypse in Splash! 2008 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2008)
What would you do with your last hours of freedom if an alien species took over Earth and enslaved the human race? Or if a tsunami wiped out the Eastern coast of the United States, resulting in mass migrations (and land riots) of unprecedented magnitude? Would you have what it takes to survive? Put your creative thinking skills to the test in this class, where you'll discuss strategies and methods for surviving apocalypses! Come unassuming, leave thinking about hypotheticals you never thought you would.


S1978: Surviving an Apocalypse in Splash! 2008 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2008)
What would you do with your last hours of freedom if an alien species took over Earth and enslaved the human race? Or if a tsunami wiped out the Eastern coast of the United States, resulting in mass migrations (and land riots) of unprecedented magnitude? Would you have what it takes to survive? Put your creative thinking skills to the test in this class, where you'll discuss strategies and methods for surviving apocalypses! Come unassuming, leave thinking about hypotheticals you never thought you would.


S1331: The Discovery of Global Warming in Spark! Spring 2008 (Mar. 08, 2008)
This class, whose title was taken directly from the book with the same name, is a one-hour-long crash course about the history of global warming science. It will be about the impressive history behind how a few isolated scientists from various fields came to discover, over the past few centuries, that the earth is a wild, unpredictable beast that could lash out at us if we abuse it sufficiently (which we already have). Come learn how we've come to learn what may be in store for us!