<p>tell me.</p>
<p>how are things going? how are classes?</p>
<p>what classes are you taking? what problem sets did you turn in today? did they suck? how bout your professors? is sadoway still doing his jig?</p>
<p>i'm sorry, but what does "frosh" mean?</p>
<p>"Frosh" is one way to pluralize "freshman".</p>
<p>Merriam-Webster-approved!</p>
<p>a. lot. of. work.</p>
<p>A mass of contradictions.
Exhilarating, yet exhausting.
Social, yet isolated.
Fun, yet torturous.
Yet, I'm glad I'm here. ^_^</p>
<p>3.091 is amazing because of Sadoway. And because I've taken 2 years of high school chem so it's all review thus far. 8.012 was the hardest thing I've ever seen, so I dropped it down to 8.01 (Dourmashkin) and now I'm a much happier person. 18.023 is by far my favorite class because Benney is the funniest person alive. Quote: "I just like to bang it out algebraically." Good man. I like my essay class and seminar with Rodney Brooks too. Crew is hell (but in a good way), and I live in a quad in Baker but my roommates are awesome. Except for the one who has decided "KareBear" is an acceptable shortening of "Karen" lol. How is everyone else doing?</p>
<p>...I am not a great fan of Physics nor am I that good at it, but Burgasser is amazing, which is the main reason I'm still in 8.012. 5.112 is amusing they made wear these glasses, like the 3-D type, to look at light spectrum. And week did Rutherford backscattering experiment in class. We threw ping-pong balls...but it was in a lecture hall and I was in the front some balls ended up bopping me on the head. ^^; Is anyone else here in 5.112?</p>
<p>Burgasser is my favorite :)</p>
<p>I know, he was so cool... but I was so confused. And the pset took so very long. Dourmashkin is pretty amazing too. :)</p>
<p>8.012 psets are epic. they rival unified (and that's 24 units).</p>
<p>Good - that means I didn't bail before they started to make sense. I wanted to think I was getting while the getting was good haha. I'll settle for living 8.012 vicariously through my Course 8 roommate.</p>
<p>8.012 is just about an hour per question with about eight questions, right? Why not challenge yourself and get loads smarter this semester? 8.022 took me about 8 hours a pset; now that I'm a Junior, all of my psets take at least 8 hours - and if you're getting into the higher level grad math/physics courses, you might expect double that.
If you can't really handle the class, then work up to it; but don't wimp out of a class you could handle, during pass/no-record, just out of laziness.</p>
<p>err... i mean, not to scare you or make you feel obligated or anything ;-/</p>
<p>I agree 100% with ^---. If you don't rely on collaboration to replace thinking hard about every problem, you will get a boatload smarter.</p>
<p>It's a done deal though! I'm already in 8.01. Leave me alone about it lol.</p>
<p>No no don't worry. I meant anyone who ends up staying in 8.012. If you're going to do it, no sense in having half the problems done for you. :-)</p>
<p>I'm definitely taking it one day at a time... 3 assignments (18.02 pset, 4 page music essay, and mastering physics) along with two tests on Thursday. I long for Thursday night when I hopefully get to go to sleep at a decent time.</p>
<p>Actually, Ben, that was what I minded most about 8.012 - I just wasn't prepared to handle the class and I had to do such heavy leeching on the first pset that I dropped instead of turning it in. Collaboration is great, but leeching - I refuse.</p>
<p>Rawr. You have my respect.</p>