<p>Where do students spend more time on problem sets?
Is it reasonable to take MIT “time-eating” courses at Harvard, to save time for example for UROP?</p>
<p>i think MIt students can take half of the classes at Harvard… and frankly, I hear that Harvard classes are WAY easier than MIT classes.</p>
<p>It surely depends on the class. And the whole point of taking some classes at either school is to get into what is reputedly the “best course in the world” in such-and-such subject. To get the illustrious shine on your transcript takes time, at either school.</p>
<p>but harvard classes have less grudge work</p>
<p>you mean drudge work?</p>
<p>hey why did you people stop posting on this thread. I think the topic is very interesting, although I wouldn’t know what to add since I’m intl.
I was accepted RD at MIT, and got likely letter from Harvard so I’d like to learn as much as possible so my decision would be wiser :)</p>
<p>harvard sends out likely letters?</p>
<p>MIT and Harvard are both good schools and its hard to talk so generally abt both b/c they have totally diff students, a diff atmospehere, etc. I have heard that with respect to engineering, harvard students are also working 24/7 (to use the expression).</p>
<p>ognnjen: an international who gets into MIT and receives a likely from Harvard can handle the work wherever he/she goes, so don’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>The problem is, a lot of people on this forum probably don’t have enough familiarity with both MIT and Harvard to tell you about a detail like problem sets. You should post this question under the MIT forum; they might have more developed responses over there.</p>
<p>ognnjen: an international who gets into MIT and receives a likely from Harvard can handle the work wherever he/she goes, so don’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>A lot of people on this forum probably don’t have enough familiarity with both MIT and Harvard to compare a detail like problem sets. You should post this question under the MIT forum; they might have more developed responses over there.</p>
<p>You would need a really good reason to take a course at the other university. Although down the street from one another, they are far enough apart that you could not go from class at Harvard to MIT, then back to Harvard in an normal sequence, as if you were taking all three on the same campus. </p>
<p>Secondly, they are on different calendars, so the start and end of classes would not match up.</p>
<p>If you are worried about the work at MIT, then just go to Harvard. It is more fun anyway.</p>
<p>afan, students from both campus x-register all the time during the spring semester because it aligns.</p>
<p>and yes the psets at MIT are considerably more difficult. When MIT students are on the verge of academic probation, they are advise to take a few classes at Harvard to boost their GPA.</p>
<p>Well, no MIT student would be well advised to take Harvard’s Math 55 if he wants to find an easier course.</p>
<p>uhm of course not, but one difficult class doesn’t change the general consensus that MIT is harder.</p>
<p>I dont think the dificulty of the class necessarily reflects the quality of the learning. For example, an english class can require rote memorization while another class will do analysis. Ultimately learning to do the analysis will be more beneficial</p>
<p>“Well, no MIT student would be well advised to take Harvard’s Math 55 if he wants to find an easier course.”</p>
<p>That course always come up when discussing hard courses but most of the time its the only course that comes up. MIT has the 18.0_4 sequence and problem solving seminar which would gives putnam fellows a run for their money.</p>
<p>Ok, guys so can some conclusions be made?
First of all, does “harder” university means “better” as well? And furthermore how is all that important later after college or in a graduate school?
Of course, when it’s harder one can learn to really work but in general work is not the only thing that will lead you somewhere, is it?
And if you want to study hard I suppose you can do that at both MIT and Harvard, right?</p>
<p>And are Psets THAT important?</p>
<p>I’m sure that there are several major sequences (“concentrations”) at Harvard that are generally harder than SOME major sequences at MIT. But who they are harder for depends in part on what a new college student studied in high school, and what that student finds most interesting. No doubt the MIT problem sets tend, in general, to be both massively time-consuming and intellectually challenging, but I think the difference discussed in this thread is more of a difference between BOTH MIT and Harvard and your friendly local community college than it is a difference only between MIT and Harvard. </p>
<p>No one needs to speculate about this, because there are plenty of course syllabi for both colleges posted for public view on the World Wide Web these days.</p>
<p>CS 161</p>
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