1. This test is entirely "closed" to books, notes, neighbors, Internet, wall hangings, tattoos (only a true structural biologist would do this!), and any other source of information besides your own precious memories and thoughts. Do not consult your neighbors, homework, computer, text, etc. You can use a calculator with all its standard functions, but not formulas you have stored yourself.
2. You are free to take the test during any 3 contiguous hours you want and anywhere you want, but it must be turned in by 5 pm on Wed, March 18 to Christian Suloway's mailbox in Broad Administration (the Broad Center is unlocked until 5 pm), and you are not allowed to stop and restart the test later to take breaks of any kind (turn your phones off, tell your friends to leave you alone and use the restroom before you start!).
3. The test is arranged into three parts. Please arrange your answers so these parts can be easily separated for grading, and WRITE YOUR NAME ON EACH PAGE OF THE EXAM YOU TURN IN (except the feedback form).
4. You will find at the back of the test on separate paper a feedback form. This will be separated from your exam immediately, and there is nowhere to put your name on it, so don't worry about your comments (good or bad) effecting your grade! We would be sincerely grateful for your most honest responses to the questions. Of course this questionnaire does not count against your three hours. Please just put these in Christian's mailbox too whenever you are done.
Use your assigned accounts on the computers in the classroom, NOT the bi1 local machine account! Your class account will let your files "follow" you from machine to machine, rather than residing on a single workstation. It will also allow you to access these files remotely from other machines on the campus network. Windows network logins copy your profile folder to/from the local machine from the server, and so take about 45 seconds to complete. Because of this copy mechanism you should only logon to one Windows machine at a time or you may lose files at logout. Multiple Linux logins are safe.
To log onto a class machine under Windows, at the login screen use:
To log onto a class machine under Linux, select linux from the boot option screen. At the login prompt use:
Each account has a disk quota of 100 MB, request more if you need it. Set whichever browser you use on the lab machines to have a cache size of zero, or stored browser files may use up all of your space.
The modeling programs can provide a stereoscopic 3D view of the displayed molecules through the Stereographics goggles. The room's fluorescent lights tend to interfere with this view, so turn those off and use instead each workstation's individual incandescent spot light. The dimmers for the spots are next to the door. The spots are fully off when the dimmer switch clicks into its final position. The goggles are somewhat fragile - please handle them gently and return them after use to their padded cases. Please notify us if a pair of goggles needs cleaning or new batteries.
Unless somebody is waiting for a machine, please completely power down the monitor and workstation when you are through. For Windows use the shutdown option, in Linux enter the command poweroff in any terminal window, or use the equivalent GUI option.
Campus wireless is iffy in the computer lab, so we have provided our own hub there. Log in details are on the white board. Please do not unplug the lab machines' network cables.