MIT: is it true?

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<p>Is it true that MIT school work/load is brutally hard? That no one has any time for any extracurricular stuff because they are bogged down by all the homework?</p>

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<p>well i hear it has the hardest workload in the country, with case western being second. but that's just what i read somewhere...</p>

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no one has any time for any extracurricular stuff because they are bogged down by all the homework

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I'm sure that out of all the thousands of colleges in the country, MIT is the only college with that problem...:)</p>

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<p>Is that actually true, or is it just because it's heavily focused on Engineering, which tends to be hard in all schools. How much workload does a history major at MIT get?</p>

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<p>It's true of all the top engineering schools...look at MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, Illinois...it's a ton of work no matter where you go.</p>

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<p>Don't forget U of Chicago. I hear all they ****ing do is study there.</p>

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<p>Yes, it's true that the courseload is brutally hard (although I'd tend to put it with Caltech rather than Case).</p>

<p>No, it is not true that students have no time for extracurriculars. Check out the list of student groups: <a href="http://sisprodweb.mit.edu:7017/asa/student_group_search.do?action=viewall%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://sisprodweb.mit.edu:7017/asa/student_group_search.do?action=viewall&lt;/a>
How would we have time to be in all those student groups if we studied all the time?</p>

<p>Now, it's (frequently) true that MIT students have no time for sleep, but there's plenty of time for extracurriculars. Priorities, people.</p>

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<p>MIT students all take a huge list of classes, as in all students from all majors have to complete them. I'm sure somebody could give you more info about it if you're curious.</p>

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<p>General Institute Requirements: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2009/subjects/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2009/subjects/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Even the history majors have to take two semesters of calc and physics.</p>

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<p>Remember that first semester is P/NR (pass/no record) so if you pass the course, you receive a P. If you fail, there's no record on your transcript that you ever took it. Second semester is A/B/C/NR, to ease all the freshmen into the courseload.</p>

<p>MIT students do study hard, many because they actually enjoy it, others because they've conditioned themselves to have to do the best. But they play hard as well and are very creative in that area.</p>

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<p>Its <em>not</em> true of other schools. I've been to both UMich and MIT; MIT destroyed me -- i.e. i was <em>underprepared</em> after Umich. I've been here for 5 years, and can say... yes, yes, yes. It <em>is</em> that much work. </p>

<p>Its because all of the students are driven to excel, so the curve is raised -- every student puts in an infinite time into all of their classes, every prof expects it, and it has become necessary to get anything higher than a C.</p>

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<p>I'm saying that umich is easy compared to mit; I didn't learn anything there. all the other umich people seem to think its otherwise, but they are just deluding themselves.</p>

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<p>Little mother, about the grades at mit, it is true what you said, but i believe, as sakky can attest, that they practically force med school applicants to reveal their grades in these classes. This may also be true of law and grad school applicants, i really don't know much about the system.</p>

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<p>We make fun of MIT from across town, MIT students come out that library at 12:01 and don't know up from down, there heads have been in those books so long.</p>

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<p>DRab--
Perhaps so, but I was responding to the original posting.</p>

<p>Cre8tive1--
MIT students may study hard, but you may want to consider studying spelling and grammar before criticizing others.</p>