Things you wish you would have known your undergraduate Freshman year (Physics)...

[molliebatmit]

<p>I’m a 2006 MIT grad (biology/brain and cog sci).

what is your opinion about getting the Humanities requirements done as fast as possible? is there any benefit to this?

This is not really a good idea. You can take grad physics classes any time you want (even freshman year, if you’d really like to do so), and taking one humanities class per term is a good way to keep yourself sane. It’s tough to take four science classes in a term at MIT – it’s doable, but it’s tough. Taking a HASS per semester is a good thing.</p>

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what are the benefits of working in p-set groups? In HS i work alone on my problem sets because i find that people (even those who are going to ivy schools) slow me down.

You will probably not find that people at MIT slow you down, and the benefit to working in pset groups (other than the social interaction) is mostly that sometimes psets are too hard to do by yourself.</p>

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I’ve never done research but i will start looking for opportunities in my first semester, even if it means “cleaning dishes” for a while.

No cleaning dishes. UROPs have real work to do.</p>

<p>I’m copying your thread to the MIT forum; pebbles, who’s a senior in the physics department, might be able to help you more than I can.</p>