Talking about the Academic Experience at MIT

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So I'm going to talk a bit about the academic environment and what academics are like here. Freshman year, I took four classes. They are eighteen o to two, which is multi variable calculus, eighteen o three, which is Differential Equations six hundred, which is intro to computer science and Python and Ada one, which is introductory physics. It is really interesting because we number all of our majors one through twenty four majors, and we also number all of our classes. So the two classes that I took that started with eighteen were both math classes. I'm a math major, so I would say I'm course eighteen since all four of the classes I took freshman fall, where introductory classes I was in large lectures and lecture style classes. There were about nine or ten different times that the class was offered, and each class wass in a smaller style. So as a professor was doing practice problems on one white board, they would be projected onto another whiteboard next to us so we could see close up what they're doing, and we would sit at tables with groups of six to eight and work on problems together. Every Friday would be a problem solving session for just an hour, and we would get a packet of problems, give him our best effort and turned them into a, which is a teacher's assistant for my four classes. Two of them, which were both my math classes, had lectures three days of the week and recitations two days of the week, and each recitation and each lecture was an hour long for five hours total in class that week, my physics class had lecture three days a week. Wednesday was two hours in Friday was one hour, and my computer science class had lecture two days a week Monday Wednesday for an hour and a half each. So lectures and recitation were the main ways that I was able to interact with teachers, teachers assistance and grad students. Most professors would post their office hours online, um, on a calendar, and I would just show up whenever I needed help on an assignment, and they were always really willing to help. In particular, the office hours for my computer science class would have teachers assistance there, and they would be able to answer any questions you have. They would also ask me questions about my learning and help me better understand the concepts that I'm working on. They would ask me to explain my code that I wrote and asked how I got to that specific answer to a problem. So at M I. T. The student of faculty ratio is three toe one, which is exceptionally low. This really shows, I believe, because each of the professor's truly tries to make connections with their students. Even though I was in and into all introductory classes my freshman fall, I really connected with my differential equations professor, And he even invited me to do some research in his lab. Almost seventy percent of all classes have fewer than twenty students. So Adam I t there are four and a half thousand undergrads in almost seven thousand grad students. They're aren't like tens of thousands of kids going here, but it's really tight knit. Everyone gets to know each other, and I met some of my closest friends here, and I made truly amazing connections with lots of people here.