<p>sbjdorlo (Hi!) brings up a good point I’d forgotten. I was very surprised (maybe shocked) to find out that many freshman classes are in the 500-700 student range for the lectures. Guess for the cost of attending, I was expecting smaller classes. My son also stopped going to lectures last year since most of the material was in OCW or online and he preferred just studying with friends to actually learn the material. According to him, the “MIT experience” doesn’t really start until at least sophomore year and freshman year is just “high school on steroids”. This year he’s in much smaller classes, that he actually attends (as far as I know!). </p>
<p>Also, I wasn’t trying to say it was bad that he had too much to do; just that if you asked him what he liked least about MIT it wouldn’t be that the classes were too hard or anything but just that there simply wasn’t enough time to do everything he wanted (and there are a heck of a lot of cool things to do there in addition to academics!).</p>