<p>That's what I suspected...
I will check the problem-sets from OCW.</p>
<p>So there is no possibility of doing ec;s taking a reasonable amount of classes and sleeping 8 hours?</p>
<p>on a daily basis, no</p>
<p>Not if you want to go to lecture also :)
Depending on the class, problem sets might be around 8 problems. If the classes you are taking are challenging for you, each problem may take an hour to understand and get through. Some classes (14.01...) will take substantially less effort.</p>
<p>An hour for each problem? Wow - Now I understand why collaboration is encouraged!</p>
<p>well to be perfectly honest its not really one question considering each one has 4-6 parts to it.</p>
<p>Yes. Like 6.041. With question 2 having part a-e, each with section i-iv. ><</p>
<p>14.01. haha. that was a fun, fun class. 14.02 was even better - no final! 8.01 also wasn't very bad - in fact, most of the freshmen GIRs didn't have very insane psets.</p>
<p>Hmmm...</p>
<p>When I read it I have feeling that most of the institute works at night, and play in the day. </p>
<p>It is innatural. It would be much better to work during the day [more efficiently, so it will take less time], and then go to do sports, waste time, urop...</p>
<p>Otherwise it is less efficient because of two reasons: 1) Your brain is packed with stimuluses [the whole day! Including some awareness packing sports and interesting ecs] , and it will be defencing itself to receive more.
2) Brain is less active in the night, and the light is much worse which worsen seeing.</p>
<p>If all institute lives in this way, why do not you force administration to switch at least some ec activities to 12pm-3am??? It would be much more efficient to do sports and ecs in the evening, and learn during the day, at least sometimes, or for a bigger part of the day [because all of us probably want sometimes to walk in the sunny day, not only work :). The creativity is boosted in such a situation, you know ;). It has rational, praxeological explanation ;) ;) ;)]</p>
<p>My 14.02 is much harder than 14.01 and has a final; 14.01 doesn't.</p>
<p>jpsi, just wait until you spend a semester here. many were once like you.</p>
<p>You should have taken 14.02 last semester, lol. Much better.</p>
<p>RP - :) . I am aware of that.</p>
<p>But anyway, what's the problem with the switch?
Would not it be more profitable for most people?</p>
<p>I do all my best work at 2 in the morning. In highschool I do, wake at 6 school at 8-4 work 5-11.5 and goof off, homework 12-3, then sleep and repeat. All my essays are written at night and that's when most homework is done. I prefer to sleep during the afternoons. So you can't just claim something as natural.</p>
<p>Yep. 14.02 last semester was easy. I didn't like the professor much, but reading the textbook and going to recitation was enough.</p>
<p>Actually, I too find my best work done at night, when I'm physically exhausted but at the top of my form mentally. You just need a break sometimes between classes, exams, labs and psets. Plus, late at night and early in the morning are when I'm most awake. Sun = sleep. Light's not an issue if you have two lamps, and is actually better than unshaded sunlight. It's unnatural, but it's the way things work.</p>
<p>Certainly, you're free to do whatever you want. We're just telling you what our lives are like.</p>
<p>Lol, exactly, I love sundays. I sleep a whole lot on sunday's into the afternoon.</p>
<p>MP. It is natural, for most of people. If you are a mutant etc. No problem, it is possible. But most people do better without melathonin in their brains.</p>
<p>I am talking about the time shift of whole campus life to make it more efficient. I know that you are smart enough to find your solutions, but I am afraid that after coming to campus there can be such process:
1) Coming
2) Much amount of work - you try to catch up.
3) You work all the time, and do not have time to change the setting of the campus life. So there is a loop... You won't have more time, because there is no time for upgrades.</p>
<p>So the solution is good in this situation, but could be better if the beginning was better. I wonder whether it is not better to work in the day, just because of physiology.</p>
<p>It takes me all day just to mentally prepare myself to do psets..</p>
<p>For most people ability peeks toward the end of the day (obviously not after being up for 20 hours already, but...</p>
<p>It's just that the 'day' for MIT students is skewed later, otherwise no difference. I do my best work between 8 pm and 2 pm, I can't think in the morning, and kind of listless in the afternoon.</p>
<p>How about those geniuses with IQ of 180(oh wait, are you guys among them?)? Does it take them like 10minutes to work on one problem?</p>
<p>Different is neccessarily a mutation, but it's my guess that MIT changes people. </p>
<p>My problem of course would be doing my problem sets early, like you say,then doing silly stuff for hours. and still not getting enough sleep. All work and no play makes me a dull boy. hehe.</p>
<p>Yeah. But work when your brain is fresh, and play when it is not.
You will be the same tired person. But you will learn more science :).
Now you remember reltively more EC's, than you would if you were learning during the day.</p>
<p>MIT changes people, and that's what I am afraid about.
That I come, and I will be to tired to organize day efficiently, so I can do everything and not get that tired.</p>
<p>That's part of college - learning how to best manage your time, your way.</p>
<p>I work best under pressure - I tend to goof off for a few hours before starting my psets. Some people do, some don't.</p>
<p>Alert! Alert! Warning!</p>
<p>jpsi, friends, is a neuropsychology graduate (yeah, been studying since 9th grade).</p>
<p>Alert! Alert!</p>