H VS M

看到Prof. David Karger最近对Quora上一个问题“Can the work be much harder at MIT than at Harvard, or about the same?”的回答：

I was an undergrad at Harvard, Grad at Stanford, and Professor at MIT. MIT is farharder than Harvard. I was very successful at Harvard; I’m not sure I would have made it through MIT at all—-and I certainly wouldn’t have outperformed the average. I don’t think this is primarily by choice of the faculty. Rather, MIT students regularly take on workloads that Harvard students would never attempt—-by stacking difficult courses, or by taking large numbers of them at once. I think this is highly counterproductive—-as I said, I did well at Harvard, which led to my later success, and I think it’s because I had a low enough workload to do well.

 

想挑战一下的，应该去M；想扩大眼界的，应该去H.