<p>Well, first, the small numbers involved make it difficult to say anything about likelihood.</p>
<p>Second, I actually think at least one of the four suicides was a non-MacGregor resident committing suicide from MacGregor. It is a rather tall building, and there were no window screens in the 90s.</p>
<p>Third, there was a well-documented and much-freaked-out-about rash of MIT suicides in the 80s and 90s. It is now 2006. There have not been any undergraduate suicides in many years, and I don't see why this is even an issue.</p>
<p>Oh well, I don't know you guys, but I might be at a place with a 90% suicide rate, and I wouldn't be influenced by that, lol. Does it really matter if 4 people have committed suicide at a certain building? I don't know you, but I don't think that it will affect you personally too much.</p>
<p>As said, wide range in the psets, and it depends a lot on who you are too, but you'll hopefully push yourself to your own limit. To give you an idea, my averages (class and time on pset):</p>
<p>6-8 hours will end up being pretty common for a lot of classes if you take courses that are challenging to you. But it can go up from there...
I just finished a pset that took me 20 hours flat. That's all in one sitting ;0... that's a little atypical (grad math class with only 5 psets), but you will end up with classes like 6.170 that are very time consuming.</p>
<p>Don't let it frighten you though, just sleep in the next day and as they say work hard and play hard (friday I spent all day and night goofballing at the top of my lungs, which is equally exhausting). You can find your own way too; I had a friend in 8.022 who started psets a week early, did one problem a day, and frequently visited the TAs for help. Meanwhile, I prefer to muck about a few days a week and work hard every once in a while - either way, there's plenty of free time around to just vegetate (unless you rock out with 100 units or so). In summary, yes you have to man up every once in a while...
...actually by once in a while I mean all the time...
and it occurs to me that I was in the lab all day long on thursday and friday, and I have two papers and another problem set due monday...</p>
<p>...forget everything I said, IHTFP and you're all screwed, won't somebody think of the children! Oh the humanity!</p>
<p>You can look up the names of any class by number in the course catalog, using the digits before the decimal point to determine which department (Course) the class is in.</p>
<p>14.01 = Principles of Microeconomics
18.03 = Differential Equations
18.100B = Analysis I
8.022 = Physics II</p>
<p>I guess it varies a lot by person. I start my psets pretty much the night before as well... (which is a bad habit by the way :() but it takes me a bit longer. But I guess this counts from the time I sit down to the time I staple everything together... and sometimes we order chinese food in between and stuff...</p>
<p>18.03 = 5-6 hours
6.001 = 15-20 hours (I'm sort of a slow programmer but I always space the projects out for that reason)
8.022 = 8-10 hours (lately... less than that)
4.301 = 0-25 hours (when the projects roll around...)
12.409 = 0-1 hour :P</p>
<p>So students work together on p-sets? How do you find students to work with you? Do professors encourage this or independent work? And Mollie, is it true that people at Macgregor shut themselves in their own rooms? Do ppl at Macgregor work together on psets too?</p>
<p>Since freshman classes are large, you will find a group of friends who share your classes. Many times, study groups are composed of people who live in your dorm, but more generally they're just composed of your friends. My study group freshman year was mostly people from MacGregor, but there was also a guy from Baker, a guy from Simmons, and a guy from Next.</p>
<p>Since everybody works together, professors are fine with it. You will be expected to write up your own solution set (no photocopying somebody else's pset, even if you worked together), and some classes require you to write the names of the people with whom you worked.</p>
<p>People everywhere work together on psets. If you try to do psets by yourself, you will often run into the significant roadblock that psets are hard.</p>
<p>As I have undoubtedly said elsewhere on this board and probably elsewhere on this thread, MacGregor residents are really just normal MIT students who happen to live in single rooms.</p>
<p>Yes, MacGregor students work together on psets. Yes, they socialize significantly outside their rooms. No, they do not lock themselves in their rooms all day. No, they are not uniformly antisocial and misanthropic. Stereotypes are only useful to a point.</p>
<p>During my CPW stay, I walked out into the lounge at 2:00AM is and there were four people working on a 6.001(?) pset together, and we chatted... by which I mean, I gave them an excuse to work less hard, and they took full advantage of it. :P</p>
During my CPW stay, I walked out into the lounge at 2:00AM is and there were four people working on a 6.001(?) pset together, and we chatted... by which I mean, I gave them an excuse to work less hard, and they took full advantage of it. :P
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Oh lord, they probably weren't even working on anything.</p>
<p>We had a group of freshmen in the entry this year who liked to stay up all night for fun... I have no explanation for this.</p>