<p>3.091 is intro to solid state chemistry. It's different than "regular" chem.</p>
<p>Yes, 3.091 is generally considered to be easier than 5.111/2, but it also caters to a different population -- chem/bio/chem E majors are strongly advised to take 5.111/2, while most engineers and other chemistry-disliking folk take 3.091. It is not just "easy chemistry", it's a different view on the material, and a lot of engineers really like it.</p>
<p>For comments on the difference between 5.111 and 5.112 (and somewhat on the difficulty level of both), check out this</a> page.</p>
<p>Does the 5.111 course differ from 5.112 like 8.01 does with 8.012 (TEAL v no TEAL), or is the distribution of lecture and lab about the same? What about 3.091 for that matter?</p>
<p>There is no lab component to any freshman chemistry course at MIT, and all of the freshman chemistry classes have three hours of lecture and two hours of recitation per week.</p>
<p>5.111 is for students who had one year of high school chemistry, and 5.112 is for students who had two years.</p>
<p>For that matter, 8.012 vs. 8.01 isn't just "not TEAL vs. TEAL" -- 8.012's subject matter is more advanced.</p>
<p>::me steering off-topic once again:: Does everyone pretty much have all four classes everyday (with lecture and recitation)?</p>
<p>I think the answer to the above question is no, but I'm not sure...</p>
<p>but I'm still stuck on this chem thing - if I had 2 years of hs chem (actually, I had one, but it was AP, which is usually the 2nd year for most people, but whatever), but I have no clue what I want to major in, does it make more sense for me to take 5.112 or 3.091? I feel like there's a major discrepancy in difficulty level there, but I don't want to go into 5.111.</p>
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Does everyone pretty much have all four classes everyday (with lecture and recitation)?
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You'll generally have chem and calc every day. HASS classes are more frequently 2 1.5-hour lectures per week (plus or not plus a one-hour recitation), so you often have them two or three times a week. The frequency and duration of physics depends on whether you're doing TEAL or one of the other options.</p>
<p>Not so much class, really. :) Although you'll be surprised how tired it makes you -- five-hour class days exhausted me at MIT, while I went to high school for eight hours a day, no problem.</p>
<p>gigog, you'll have a better perspective on whether to take 5.112 or 3.091 after talking to lots of upperclassmen and meeting with your advisor and going to Core Blitz (where the professors get up and talk about the classes they teach), and in the end, if you pick one and don't like it, you can switch to the other very easily. I'll reiterate that you don't want to go into advanced course 5 classes not having taken 5.111/2, so I guess I'd say to examine the probability that you'll be doing 5/7/9/10/20.</p>
<p>If you are thinking to fulfill the pre-med requirements, do you have to take 18.02 and 18.03 (assuming you skip 18.01)? Or can you do like 18.02 and 18.0x, where x = 4, 5, 6?</p>
<p>For anyone with an obsessive need to start looking at possible schedules now, though, you can go to <a href="http://student.mit.edu/@2343444.22624/catalog/index.cgi%5B/url%5D">http://student.mit.edu/@2343444.22624/catalog/index.cgi</a> and start playing with entering your choices to see what comes of it....</p>
<p>A few programs require 18.03, I believe. If other programs merely require two semesters of college-level math, you could take 18.whatever-you-want.</p>
<p>Apparently the requirements for each school are available at <a href="http://www.amc.org%5B/url%5D">www.amc.org</a>.</p>
<p>Did you mean <a href="http://www.aamc.org%5B/url%5D">www.aamc.org</a> ?</p>
<p>Haha, yes, sorry. This is why I should copy and paste when I'm talking about stuff I don't know anything about...</p>
<p>Off topic, but when I saw "AMC" I immediately thought of:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unl.edu/amc/%5B/url%5D">http://www.unl.edu/amc/</a>
<a href="http://www.outdoors.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.outdoors.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.amctheatres.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.amctheatres.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.amctv.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.amctv.com/</a></p>
<p>And it gets nearly 30 million matches on google.</p>
<p>I was looking at 18.023 and 18.022 again - 022 says it also has "relevance to applications and physics;" so what's the degree of difference in applications? I guess to give me a point of reference I can relate to, how would the two compare to BC?</p>
<p>For reference, what's 18.03 like? How does it compare to 18.034? I know it's not really a GIR, but lots of people have to take it...</p>
<p>When comparing to introduction statistics (18.05), is 18.03 easier or harder?</p>