| Oh sorry, lemme clarify. Many majors, such as physics (which I am in so I know a little more about) only offer certain classes certain years or certain times of year (spring semester or fall semester). In other cases, oftentimes the best professors are the professors assigned to teach the course when most kids in your year will be taking it. So, what ends up happening (at least with the people that I know) is that if they're a semester ahead, they just hang around and take some filler courses until the next course in the sequence is offered. 8.044 for one is only offered in the spring. So is 8.033. So if you'd finished 8.02 by first semester, you will still need to wait until sophomore fall to take 8.033. 8.04 is offered both in fall and in the spring, but even then I know many just waited until spring sophomore year to take it so that 1) they could be with their friends and/or 2) the professor is better. |