<p>Lol - I was gonna make that joke earlier when you said you were doing your apps. It's true, to a point.</p>
<p>Mollie - BTW, just wondering why you write your A's like that? I'm sure you get used to it, but trying to read it is slightly difficult.</p>
<p>Yes, MIT can make even what you considered trivial in high school much more complex than you really needed it to be.</p>
<p>I had an issue with housing which I will refrain from scaring the prefrosh with, but I now live in MacG. I say suite because the entry is divided into suites as well as floors. So there's actually a very large room right down the hall that is totally unused. And also because I was hoping nobody would press about dorm :) Oh well.</p>
<p>can one of you give us a link to a pset or type out a pset?</p>
<p>there's a little thing called open course ware. type it in on the main MIT site and click on the course you want to check out. Alternatively you could go to current course websites and look at them. type in the course number on the website and choose whichever.</p>
<p>18.02 is multivariate calc (18.01 is single)
8.01 is physics for normal people, 8.012 is for masochists (adding a 2 increases difficulty)
24.900 is intro to linguistics (my humanities for the term-- but you're better off googleing "Norvin" to get the prof's site if you want to see that one)
6.001 is comp sci of some sort
5.111/5.112 (chem) are unfortunately locked, so you can't see them, not sure about 3.091 (other chem course that I wish I had taken)
I don't know how to attach a .pdf file to a post, but if you really want a file, pm me with your email and I'll send psets to you in an attachment.</p>
<p>what i meant by "giving us a link" is... if you recognize a pset that is extremely annoying on the open course ware, u can link us to there.
thx for the offer tho.</p>
<p>was our last physics one. It wasn't a doozy though. </p>
<p>last math one, also not sooo bad.</p>
<p>click on problems sets, historical linguistics for the latest and greatest</p>
<p>and chem
I don't know if you can see this one, but this one is chemistry. </p>
<p>Actually, I know you can't see it, but you're welcome to try</p>
<p>nope. It's the secured protocol.</p>
<p>thx for the links!!</p>
<p>hehe. If you've got... oh... a good 15-20 hours on your hands... get the Kleppner and Kolenkow physics book and try some of these (the last pset):</p>
<p>solutions here for the curious and for the now:</p>
<p>They always make it looks so elegant. makes you feel like you went about every problem the long and bloody way. and they never fail to label certain foreign concepts as "intuitively obvious".</p>
<p>:D I think I spent 75% of my total schoolwork time on 8.012. and it's only 12 units. favorite class this semester by far. though the lectures are at 9:30am so I haven't been to a single one in basically a month =</p>
<p>8.012 is a problem-solving based class. nothing fancy to it. you're never taught how to solve the problems explicitly. you're taught the theory and calculus and derivations behind it, and then you try to hammer it out over the course of several long nights. sometimes the demands are ridiculous. there was some serious diff-eq crap on a few of the psets and as we're first sem freshmen very few of us have ever seen diff-eq before and had to run to upperclassmen for help. It's a good class. I ramble on and on about it because I really love it. Of course, this is after finishing the uncharacteristically easy problem set 10 so I'm feeling really good about generally everything right now. I'm feeling really very good about sleep as well. It's 4. I have a test tomorrow. Good night.</p>
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Mollie - BTW, just wondering why you write your A's like that? I'm sure you get used to it, but trying to read it is slightly difficult.
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<p>Yeah, I know. I started writing them like that in the 4th grade, just because I could. I like playing with my handwriting, I guess. I realize that it's pretty hard to read -- they used to look like u's, and now they've evolved to the point where they sort of don't look like anything. My postdoc used to make faces at me when he had to look in my lab notebook... I guess it's frustrating because my handwriting is really neat, so it seems like you ought to be able to read it easily, but then there are all these weird a's and G's and such everywhere.</p>
<p>Erebor, jealous that you're getting to take 24.900 with Richards -- I heard he was really good. I took it last semester, and the prof was awful.</p>
<p>He is good. Any prof who regularly asks the class their opinion on the correctness of his statements is a decent person and probably a good teacher. (e.g. "where would you insert "<strong><em>ing" into Massachusetts? Massa-</em></strong><strong>ing-chusetts, Massachu-</strong><strong><em>ing-setts or Mas-</em></strong><strong>ing-sachusetts? I like the former, but I've been told the middle one is okay. But are we agreed that you can't say "Mas-</strong>*ing-sachusetts"? Good.") I can see how 24.900 has the potential to be really, really awful. I'm sorry that you didn't get the chance to enjoy it.
I applied because MIT has really good linguistics and earth sciences. I'm glad that 24.900 hasn't kicked my butt so hard (yet) that I'm not still consiering it.</p>
<p>hmmm.... lots of pretty stars^ no i'm NOT fruity</p>
<p>interesting method of censoring. I think the offending word is irrelevant, but it is interesting to see that they turned all the letters of the word into stars, and somehow managed to add in an extra one somewhere. Hm.</p>
<p>the physics problems look do-able</p>
<p>I set up a message board on one of my linux servers a few years ago just to play with it... </p>
<p>The censor feature (on phpBB at least) lets you put all your censored words into an array, and then there's a $replace variable that is set to five stars by default. If a word from the censor array is found, it just gets replaced by whatever is in the $replace variable.</p>
<p>clever, that.</p>
<p>lol @ doable :P</p>
<p>well, they get done, don't they?</p>
<p>(which physics problems are you referring to)</p>
<p>It isn't always a question of possibility, it's usually a question of feasibility-- I could do problem x, but I'd be up until 3 doing it and I wouldn't be able to get that start on the other pset that I wanted to so I can ask questions at recitation tomorrow. There's no question about possible, they don't mess with you like that as far as I can tell, not yet anyway, just whether it's possible given the constraints you place on yourself.</p>
<p>lol, sorry I thought by doable it meant easy.</p>
<p>I was in the middle of a hard pset when I read it ;)</p>