Average number of Psets?

anon89723960
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:43:35 +0000

Except the textbook is not your typical high school textbook.



Eh, no, it’s going to be like your typical college textbook. A quick google search shows that this book is used in a number of colleges, many which are not MIT caliber. I would not expect the problems in the book to be MIT caliber problems. Skimming through the course website ([18.100A Fall 2012](18.100A Fall 2012)), which does have psets with some actual problems printed instead of references to the book, seems to line up with this as well.

From the people I know who have taken 18.100A (none of whom were math majors - the math majors seem to look down on a math major taking 18.100A), none of them had difficulty with the material. What they did have difficulty with was the fact that they had no opportunity to plan their work, since they had to get the psets done within a day or two. That was stressful, especially when friends of mine, say, had prod week for a play, or a bunch of other assignments due in the same week, but little time to get a head start. There’s a difference between stress because the problems are difficult and stress because you have a lot to do.