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<p>Might I add, I don’t think MIT math, for instance, seems to grade deflate, but I have the wisdom of hardly a handful of people as part of my sample size. I think it’s supposed more along the lines of things seem hard because they are intrinsically hard, but not to make it harder just to pound you type thing.</p>
<p>I seem to hear physics is really, really hard at MIT.</p>
<p>I didn’t go through all these posts, but I’ll answer from what I know. MIT is hard. You’ll work long and hard. I manage to have some Thursday, and most Friday/Saturday nights off (except for weeks with midterms).</p>
<p>I work most of the day Sunday-Thursday though.</p>
<p>How hard? Read “Ten Lessons of an MIT Education,” by Gian-Carlo Rota: [Ten</a> lessons](<a href=“http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html]Ten”>Ten lessons).</p>
<p>Gian-Carlo Rota’s lesson #3 especially… Of course MIT hard to some degree (just how hard is up to you) but the most difficult thing for me was being expected to “know how.”</p>
<p>It was almost like I had to learn how to learn again. I, like many (most?) people picked up fabulous rote memorization skills in high school but they are of little use to me as a majority of my tests in the past year or two have been open book and/or open notes (course 7) and despite this, the averages are consistently in the 60’s because we are tested on how well you can apply the concepts you learn, not just the concepts themselves.</p>
<p>There is definitely an adjustment going from “mens” only to “mens et manus” but its really a great feeling once you start getting the hang of it! Good luck.</p>