<p>Hi guys, is it possible to take summer courses at MIT? I want to buff up a bit before I actually do the crazy coursework, like getting warmed up, you know? Classes I want to get over with include 18.02, and maybe 8.01. (so I can take 8.012/8.022 during the school year). It's always safe to study the math first before doing advanced physics coursework.</p>
<p>And I'm not being a masochist or anything. I actually have fun learning stuff, and it would be great if i could immerse myself gradually into the MIT atmosphere, instead of jumping straight into a cold bath of psets/work. If I can't do summer school at MIT, i'll find a way to self-study multivariate calc/differential equations at home anyways.</p>
<p>they don't have many summer courses...basically they only have some obscure applied math classes . I remember something like "Applied Math for engineers." Probably 18.02 is a prereq for this.</p>
<p>If you can talk them into it, you could take 18.03 at MIT during the summer. It's the only class they offer during the summer that might be a requirement for womething. Technically 18.02 is a prereq for 18.03 but it really has nothing to do with it. </p>
<p>If you want to take regular physics during the summer, you'll have to take it somewhere else. Just make sure that it is calculus-based physics. Otherwise it'll be worthless.</p>
<p>Although there are vanishingly few courses offered at MIT during the summer, you could check out Project</a> Interphase, which is a 7-week academic program for incoming freshmen. It's pretty intense, but it definitely would help you ramp up to MIT.</p>
<p>In addition to 18.03 (diff. Eqns.), MIT also offers 18.06 (linear algebra) over the summer.</p>
<p>I don't know much about Project Interphase, but if you have a good background you are probably better off taking a good calc-based physics course at another university. Most universities have them. Oddly enough, I think Harvard doesn't have a good summer physics course. It's like physics for life sciences or something.</p>
<p>you sound beast enough to handle the gir's, they're honestly not that hard. it would be worth studying over summer maybe if you want an A in 8.012 or if you want to pass out of classes or something.</p>
<p>18.02 is actually a coreq for 18.03 - but that's moot, I guess, since 18.02 isn't offered during the summer :D</p>
<p>You can do what I'm doing and take 18.03 at BU this summer. It's a preapproved course, meaning transferring the credit is a matter of taking care of the paperwork. You get an "S" on your transcript if you get a B- or better in the class.</p>
<p>Well, I guess I'll just self-study as i always had in the past. Just got a cheap copy of Introduction to Mechanics my K&K/Griffith electrodynamics... I'm sure it will fill most of my summer anyways.</p>
<p>faraday!
Watch the OpenCourseWare lectures for free! OCW is like a hit parade of MIT's best lecturers. Do 8.01, 8.02, and 18.03 in the comfort of your own home. Then freshman
year you will ace these classes with ease.</p>
<p>Hey faraday, if I might suggest something (if you don't do this already) -- when you self-study, maybe try typing up notes + compiling the problems you do in an organized fashion. I somehow find (being quite a self-studier myself) that it gives that nice psychological sense of closure, i.e. that you studied the topic in an organized way.</p>
<p>That's really what taking a class, as opposed to reading on my own, does nicely for me. The organized, consistent nature of it.</p>