“I’m a strong advocate of learning from your mistakes, that’s how humans naturally learn,” says Lindsay. “I want to create a space where my students can actually learn from their mistakes.”

Lindsay has even bigger aspirations. “This class I’ll be teaching in the spring is only a tiny subset of what my dream class would be,” says Lindsay. “I eventually want to create a curriculum that is highly interdisciplinary and taught by several instructors. We could have an astrophysicist, an engineer, and maybe things like sociology and botany. You’d get to see how everything interacts and see that no single academic discipline is in isolation.”

I want students to look back in ten, twenty years and remember, ‘That was a really fun, cool, and educational experience.’”

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1. science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class