<p>I was wondering if any current MIT students did a FPOP, and how was the experience. Is it competitive to get into say... Nuclear Engineering (I just want to explore different majors)?</p>
<p>There's discussion about FPOPs in a thread called "Freshman Orientation" that's fallen off the first page of this forum. It sounds like the general consensus is that they're highly worthwhile.</p>
<p>I didn't do an FPOP freshman year, but people who do them are always very happy with them.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the programs which are competitive are FLP and FAP. (And realistically, you guys can stop worrying about competing with each other, starting now. You're only competing with yourself from here on out. But I digress.)</p>
<p>People who do FPOPs come here earlier and end up befriending people in their FPOPs before the non-early birds even get to campus. Granted, the people you meet at orientation are not likely to be your closest friends, so don't feel like you need to do an FPOP to make friends.</p>
<p>I think it's nice to a) be on campus and have fun without any work to do, and b) do something you enjoy before orientation starts. If you agree, then by all means do an FPOP. If you would rather spend a few extra days with friends at home, then do that.</p>
<p>FLP takes a lot of kids so it's not hard to get into (70-100?), DEAPs which I did last year only took 16. Put more effort into your application for the smaller programs if you really want to participate in them.</p>
<p>Question--it asks for your MIT email. I've been wondering when we get those anyway <em>ahemfacebookahem</em>. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>Edit: Furthermore, so as not to hijack the thread too much, does Course 9 (Brain and Cogsci) not have an FPOP? That's saaad. :(</p>
<p>A certificate with a code that will let you get your MIT email comes in the Next Big Mailing, which [url=<a href="http://matt.mitblogs.com%5DMatt%5B/url">http://matt.mitblogs.com]Matt[/url</a>] says has just been sent out. :) So patience, just a little longer.</p>