<p>Sure, a lot of people take 14.01/14.02.</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter whether you take a CI-H before or not, unless you might want sophomore standing (in which case you need to take a CI-H first semester). Otherwise, you need to take one CI-H freshman year, and it doesn’t matter whether you take it first or second semester. </p>
<p>It can be nice to get HASS-Ds out of the way early, so you don’t have to worry about fulfilling the requirement later, but it’s certainly not necessary to do so. If you want to take 14.01 first semester, then go ahead – it certainly saves you the hassle of having to enter the HASS-D lottery this summer.</p>