<p>I’m curious about course 3 at MIT. I love physics, like math, and tolerate chemistry. I was thinking about majoring in physics, but I want to do something more applied and useful instead of just thinking about theoretical stuff all the time. Nanotechnology really interests me, and course 3 looks like it deals with a lot of cool nanotech research. But it also looks like it might be more chemistry than I’m interested in doing. Do any of you know anything about it?</p>
<p>To get a good idea of what it feels like, try checking the OpenCourseWare that MIT maintains. It contains videos of lectures from almost every class. It also has lecture notes, homework problems, etc.
For course 3 (material science + enrg), look here: [Free</a> Online Course Materials | Materials Science and Engineering | MIT OpenCourseWare](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/]Free”>http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/)
Glance through especially the first couple Undergraduate courses, see if you like’em.</p>