<p>I'm currently taking a multivariable calculus course in my high school that gets dual credit with a local community college. Should I retake multivariable calculus anyway at MIT or should I jump straight into differential equations first semester of freshman year?</p>
<p>take all the credit you can get and burnnn baby. Most of the people deep into math that I know try to pass out of diff eq, though, and instead opt for [url=<a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=18.100B&style=verbatim%5D18.100B%5B/url">http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=18.100B&style=verbatim]18.100B[/url</a>] or [url=<a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=18.700&style=verbatim%5D18.700%5B/url">http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=18.700&style=verbatim]18.700[/url</a>]</p>
<p>if you love yourself you will not take 18.03 in the fall.</p>
<p>18.03 being what we call diff eq (by the way, why does everyone say "diff ee cue"? "diff-ek" is shorter, and in the way that HASS is both the beginning of "hassle" and the word for hatred in German (coincidence?), could be punned into "diffeqtive" or some such.. ("my homework is entirely diffeqtive"..))</p>
<p><em>sigh</em>.. why is it 5 AM already? Pardon my ramble.</p>
<p>I passed out of 18.02 but I'm taking 18.03 in the spring. It's fun stuff. Basically every freshman in the school takes 18.03 in the spring, so it's gonna be a blast.</p>
<p>I took 18.06 in the fall (linear), and that was fun too. For some reason, everyone and their mom was in it, which made it enjoyable.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in favor of the 18.06->18.03 sequence for people who pass out of 18.02 as incoming freshmen. While I personally had to take 18.02, I know several people who did this and had an awesome first semester.</p>
<p>So far I'm signed up for 18.02 but hope to test out of this series. I heard 18.06 series will make your life a lot easier.</p>