i go to mit, and i will be taking 6.002 next term, and i am really glad that they didn't change the class totally but offered it as a choice. they are changing a bunch of classes to make them more "hands on" but its just b.s. garbage. hands on sucks, i would much rather learn things more theoretically. when you learn with the hands on approach, they tell you "this is true, believe it" but they don't tell you why its true. the person with the theoretical background has a deeper understanding of the material, and why it works, not just how to fart around to make it work without understanding the deeper theory behind why it works. i came to mit to get away from all of this crap that i saw in high school, and i find myself running into it more and more. this crap really sucks.
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i go to mit, and i will be taking 6.002 next term, and i am really glad that they didn't change the class totally but offered it as a choice. they are changing a bunch of classes to make them more "hands on" but its just b.s. garbage. hands on sucks, i would much rather learn things more theoretically. when you learn with the hands on approach, they tell you "this is true, believe it" but they don't tell you why its true. the person with the theoretical background has a deeper understanding of the material, and why it works, not just how to fart around to make it work without understanding the deeper theory behind why it works. i came to mit to get away from all of this crap that i saw in high school, and i find myself running into it more and more. this crap really sucks.