<p>As said, wide range in the psets, and it depends a lot on who you are too, but you’ll hopefully push yourself to your own limit. To give you an idea, my averages (class and time on pset):</p>
<p>14.01: 0 minutes (no psets)
18.03: 2-4 hours
18.100B: 4-6 hours
8.022: 6-8 hours</p>
<p>6-8 hours will end up being pretty common for a lot of classes if you take courses that are challenging to you. But it can go up from there…
I just finished a pset that took me 20 hours flat. That’s all in one sitting ;0… that’s a little atypical (grad math class with only 5 psets), but you will end up with classes like 6.170 that are very time consuming.</p>
<p>Don’t let it frighten you though, just sleep in the next day and as they say work hard and play hard (friday I spent all day and night goofballing at the top of my lungs, which is equally exhausting). You can find your own way too; I had a friend in 8.022 who started psets a week early, did one problem a day, and frequently visited the TAs for help. Meanwhile, I prefer to muck about a few days a week and work hard every once in a while - either way, there’s plenty of free time around to just vegetate (unless you rock out with 100 units or so). In summary, yes you have to man up every once in a while…
…actually by once in a while I mean all the time…
and it occurs to me that I was in the lab all day long on thursday and friday, and I have two papers and another problem set due monday…</p>
<p>…forget everything I said, IHTFP and you’re all screwed, won’t somebody think of the children! Oh the humanity!</p>