<p>I am planning on double majoring (if it's possible for me) on Course 6 (with emphasis on CS) and Course 18. I would like to know if it's possible to do so starting my freshman year with the very basics (18.01, 8.01, etc)</p>
<p>You don't declare a major until the end of your freshman year, and can't declare a second major until later (after soph?). Since everyone, pretty much, is taking the GIRs first year, you could shape your HASS choices along those lines, but for your first year there's no big need to worry about it.</p>
<p>I'd also recommend looking at Course 18C, which is called "Mathematics with Computer Science" and may have many aspects of what you're looking for in one convenient major.</p>
<p>Thanks mootmom for being always available to help :)</p>
<p>I'm not entirely familiar with the requirements for 18 and 6, but I certainly completed a double in four years starting from the very beginning.</p>
<p>Mootmom's suggestion of 18-C is very good, though -- if you're starting from no or very little credit, a double is possible but often requires you to take absurd numbers of units per term. And really, if you can avoid total absurdity, that's probably a good idea.</p>
<p>honestly, double majors are usually unnecessary. just take the classes that you enjoy and the rest will work out naturally.</p>
<p>...what?
That doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>What asdf123 is saying is that you should take the classes you want to take, and in a year or two years look at the requirements you've fulfilled. If you look at your classes and say "Hey, if I just take x.yz and a.bc, I could pick up a minor/second major," then go for it. </p>
<p>A double isn't worth beating yourself into the ground -- you should take the classes you want to take. If that gets you two degrees in the end, so be it. If it gets you one degree plus a bunch of classes on the side, nobody's going to care.</p>
<p>Oh that's nice, right now I'm looking at the requirements of Course 8 and Course 18-C (which happens to be my favorite now) to see if it's possible to get a double on those or a minor in Course 8 without killing myself, but I don't really understand how it works for double majors.</p>
<p>I'm 18 and 6 and i'm taking a bunch of classes I don't want to take in order to do it, and I'm happy</p>
<p>^^ haha, that's nice</p>
<p>Haha, I should clarify that I did in fact beat myself into the ground for a double. And I'd do it again, too. But I didn't do it because I thought I had to or anything.</p>
<p>For a double, you need 270 units outside the GIRs (that is, anything that's a GIR -- 18.01, 8.02, Institute Lab, REST, HASS, etc does not count toward the total of 270 units) while completing the requirements for two majors. You can double-count as many classes as you want -- if 18.06 is required for both majors, then you can use it for both majors -- but it would only count as one class, and as 12 units outside the GIRs.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification Mollie :)</p>
<p>Now, I've read that MIT doesn't really teaches programming languages like C++, what if I haven't programmed with C++? will I get a degree of CS without knowing how to program that kind of stuff?</p>
<p>There's a summer project just waiting for you to dive into it!</p>
<p>~nice~ I will really learn a lot at MIT, but yeah, hard work for me!</p>
<p>Hey, Mollie, since you are doing this, I want to know: what are all the required courses you need if you want to double major in course 7 and course 9?</p>
<p>figure it out yourself.
web.mit.edu</p>
<p>It's hard to say, because both majors are pretty flexible.</p>
<p>For [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.scien.ch7.shtml%5D7%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.scien.ch7.shtml]7[/url</a>], you need
5.12, 5.60, 7.01x, 7.02, 7.03, 7.05, 7.06, project lab, and three upper-division electives (anything with 7.03 and/or 7.05 as a prereq)</p>
<p>For [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.scien.ch9.shtml%5D9%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/catalogue/degre.scien.ch9.shtml]9[/url</a>], you need
9.00, 9.01, 9.07, a lab, a UROP, and six restricted electives</p>
<p>So you could do it so your electives in both majors overlap substantially, or not. Whatever gets you psyched.</p>
<p>i guess what i mean is, why do you want a double major? nobody is going to care, like for employment or grad school, as far as i know, and it might limit your schedule and your flexibility to take classes that you enjoy or that broaden your horizons.</p>
<p>I would like a double major because I love Math, Comp Sci and Physics, and I would like to Major in Course 18C and Course 8 because in fact, is something I want to do. idk, maybe I change my mind later.</p>
<p>Anyways, I have a question about HASS classes, there's something I still don't get (I guess). It says that for the GIR you have to take 3 HASS-D subjects from different categories, then 3-4 subjects on the same category fro concentration and in total 8 subjects.
This means that you have to take 3-4 in the same category, 2 in other categories and the other 2-3 in any category you want?</p>
<p>Also, are the CI classes considered part of this HASS requirement?</p>
<p>for 8 you have to take Junior Lab</p>
<p>for the record, I'm doubling 18 and 6 but I never paid one thought about what classes I'd need until just now, end of my sophomore year</p>