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<p>Same with the “what classes are you taking next year?” or “wow, this looks hard” sort of posts. They’re personal. Why do people post them on each other’s walls?</p>

<p>As another example, here’s a sample wall-to-wall between someone else and I: (why would he post it on my wall? It’s interesting, really)</p>

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I wrote
at 10:47pm on August 29th, 2007
holy ****, those questions are easy (with some knowledge)</p>

<p>I dunno - MIT’s “honors calculus” has easy psets. But it’s also hugely dependent on the idiosyncrasies of the professor. Maybe it was unusually easy one year.
Wall-to-Wall - Write on My Wall - Delete</p>

<p>X (UChicago) shared a link
at 10:44pm on August 29th, 2007
<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-100BFall-2006/Assignments/index.htm[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-100BFall-2006/Assignments/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Assignment 3. The first three questions are just… pathetic. I don’t know how this can be thought of as difficult. Admittedly, I’m not even that good at analysis yet.
MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.100B Analysis I, Fa…
MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.100B Analysis I, Fall 2006 | Assignments
<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-100BFall-[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-100BFall-&lt;/a&gt;…
For each assignment, first solve the corresponding assignment in the study materials section and check your answers. The solutions are courtesy of Xiaoguang Ma and Sawyer Tabony.
Wall-to-Wall - Write on Jonathan’s Wall - Message - Delete</p>

<p>I wrote
at 10:29pm on August 29th, 2007
Or theoretical version.</p>

<p>The Techers at the Caltech forums say that the analytic sections aren’t necessarily harder than the practical ones (just different types of reasoning required). There are some personalities that will be at relative ease with theoretical problems, and find such problems easier.
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<p>I shared a link
at 10:25pm on August 29th, 2007
<a href=“http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m18a.html[/url]”>http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m18a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yep, it’s the hard version</p>

<p>Was it the first HW assignment though? Or one in the middle?
Course 18: Mathematics
Course 18: Mathematics
<a href=“http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m18a.html[/url]”>http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m18a.html&lt;/a&gt;
18.01 Calculus (, ) Prereq: --Units: 5-0-7Credit cannot also be received for 18.014, 18.01AURL: <a href=“http://www-math.mit.edu/~ostrover/1801/18.01-Calculus07Spring.html[/url]”>http://www-math.mit.edu/~ostrover/1801/18.01-Calculus07Spring.html&lt;/a&gt; Lecture: TR1,F2 (54-100) Recitation: …
Wall-to-Wall - Write on My Wall - Delete</p>

<p>X(UChicago) wrote
at 10:15pm on August 29th, 2007
Is 18.100B the HARD version of analysis at MIT??? I just finished one of their 7-problem psets within 30 minutes without looking at the answer key, and I got all of them right."</p>