<p>Please mind that I am no way trying to insult the rigor of Sloan because I know how well established and respected their school is and how many of the graduates can find jobs easily after they graduate. However in comparison to the other departments like engineering and computer science, are the finance/business courses at MIT less stressful or let's say "easier" than the courses in engineering or hard sciences?</p>
<p>I am asking this because I am interested in double majoring in management and applied math (or economics depends on how hard I find their math classes) (if I were lucky enough to be accepted) with a minor in international studies and I am really worried about the workload required to do that. Right now I am a junior and I feel so stressed out right now in high school with my grades and numerous extracurriculars that I am promising myself that in college I will try to get 6 hours of sleep every night and not over burden myself (aka join 1-2 clubs only and take the average amount of classes (4-5) per semester. </p>
<p>However I am aware that I might have to take more classes per semester to get a double major so I am just wondering how stressful the applied math and business classes are at MIT compared to the other departments.</p>
<p>Double majoring with math tends to work well because math has few requirements. I haven’t heard of Sloan being particularly rigorous.</p>
<p>By the way, your sane plan of standard amount of classes and throwing yourself into a few groups and doing it well is awesome. (And very much a Study Hacks mentality. Google it, it’s a good blog.) My only question is, why aren’t you doing this now? No reason to kill yourself in high school.</p>
<p>Oh its because I’m already into all of my clubs and I already put so much time into them that it would be foolish for me to quit my clubs because I do enjoy doing everything that I do, I just don’t enjoy the lack of sleep that accompanies them. And while my high school is competitive, I know that from a different perspective if I were to compare my high school with the more competitive ones around where I live, my school would seem like a piece of cake.</p>
<p>Therefore in college, I just want to focus on 1-2 clubs and take a decent amount of classes to catch up on sleep that I missed in high school. >.<</p>
<p>Keep in mind, Sloanies actually have to take a fair amount of sci/eng, even on top of the GIRs. They have to take linear algebra, an intro programming class, the electrical engineering probability class, and a statistics class.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to say that sci/eng classes are harder or easier than the econ, finance, or management classes. I never took any econ, finance, or management classes, so I can’t judge that. What I’m saying is that whether YOU find sci/eng classes harder or easier, you still have to take a bunch of 'em as a Sloanie. :)</p>