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FYI, I’m a Junior, so I also didn’t have the option of prac phys without labs or whatever that’s made core “easier.” I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I do think that your interpretation of core is better for sanity’s sake, but I don’t think I’d have been able to pull it off as a frosh/soph. I wanted to learn the material, and I couldn’t, and that left me frustrated most of the time. I’ve been stressing from the beginning that how you feel about core is going to depend on what type of person you are. If you’re the type that can accept that you’re not going to understand everything and just sit back and enjoy seeing a lot of interesting problems without getting upset with yourself for not being able to solve them all, or even most of them, then more power to you. Enjoy Caltech.</p>