The default thesis templates for LaTeX conform to the general MIT requirements
for a thesis.

Course 6 and Course 8 have slightly modified requirements for the front page.
They require that that the author own the Copyright, and that the titlepage
include a statement which grants MIT permission to copy and distribute the
thesis.  Fortunately these changes are easy to make.

About 60 lines into the samplethesis.tex file, comment out the lines (put a
"%" at the beginning) which say "\thesiscopyright{Massachusetts Institute of
Technology}" and "\thesiscopyrightnote{}", and uncomment the lines following
them (remove the "%" from the beginning).  Then change the name in
\thesiscopyright{...} command so that your name is in the curly braces.  When
you're done, that section of the file should look like this:

	%\thesiscopyright{Massachusetts Institute of Technology}
	%\thesiscopyrightnote{}

	\thesiscopyright{YOUR NAME HERE}
	\thesiscopyrightnote{The author hereby grants to MIT permission to
	reproduce and to distribute copies of this thesis document in whole or
	in part.}