The technology was impressive, but even more impressive was how it was being used. Nearly all the freshmen have to take introductory physics and chemistry courses. When I was a freshman, such courses meant sitting in a huge lecture hall with 500 or so students, listening to a professor who perhaps had an overhead projector. Later recitations and lab sessions, each taught by a different instructor, supplemented the lectures. It worked, but it disconnected the experiments that students learned from the lecture.
Students can also connect their laptops to the campus network.
They do the experiments tied to the lecture, guided by the professor and various teaching assistants, and then they print the results and turn them in. They then turn back for the next part of the lecture. The focus is now on the faculty watching the students instead of the other way around. Again, technology has allowed the lecture and the lab work to become much more integrated. Not all the courses are taught this way, although the school hopes to change that for all the large classes in a few years.