<p>I’ll say that the average amount of work required here at Caltech per class is probably about the same to what I had at Carnegie Mellon, maybe an hour or two more an assignment, but I’ve found I get a lot less out of the time I put in than I did back at CMU. There seems to be a lot less really understanding a problem and more banging your head against the desk until the letters happen to fall in a way that kinda looks like it might be right.</p>
<p>So, yeah, I think Caltech is harder than CMU was, but I think that’s more due to the philosophy at Caltech as to how classes should be taught than the actual material covered.</p>