Questions about CMU Calc?

jellycat
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:48:17 +0000

21-120 has no prerequisite or whatsoever, so technically speaking, even if you don’t take the placement or the placement indicates you should take, say, 21-111, you could still register for 21-120 anyway. I don’t think your advisor would ever be chasing after you if you did that. Advisors do advise, but at the end of the day, what classes you decide to take is still entirely up to you :)

I’ve taken classes of neither, though I heard from numerous people that Mackey is awesome. Someone allegedly decided to change to math major after taking his class. But IMO, it’s more like “it’s a basic calc class, so what do you expect. prof doesn’t really matter”…