<p>Here’s a blog by an MIT math major who spent a year studying math at Cambridge. Provides good information on some of the difference between the way math is taught/learned at the two schools: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics]”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/experiences_abroad_study_research_employment/a_day_in_the_life_2.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/experiences_abroad_study_research_employment/a_day_in_the_life_2.shtml)</p>
<p>The only thing I wonder, about this blog, is whether it indeed captures the difference. The blogger spent the junior year at Cambridge, and so ends up comparing his junior year there with his freshman and sophomore years at MIT. My daughter’s junior year in physics at MIT is qualitatively different from the first two years, far more in-depth, largely because of the coursework in Junior Lab. I don’t know what junior year is like for a math major at MIT, but it is very likely to be a much deeper experience than what students encounter during the first two years. It would be nice to hear from a student who’d done the exchange, finished up the B.S., and then wrote about it. Still a very interesting blog though.</p>