My choice: Stick with what works. There are a lot of new, untested classes in the new curriculum, and you don't know if they'll be good. Besides, there are opportunities to substitute new classes for old ones if one of them turns out to be cool. (And you get to say "Back in the day...")

aletta

I get leary when MIT makes major changes.

nelhage

I'm dubious of many of the new classes. Of course, that's not to say the old ones aren't broken.

lakmiseiru

The new curriculum is untested and unlikely to be stable until it's been taught for at least one generation of students. Don't be the administration's test case; stick with what's safe. It does have its problems, but that's true of everything, and there's no sense inviting trouble. Plus the upperclassmen can give you advice on what to take, which they can't with the new stuff. And, like you said, you can always switch.

kyrandil

for 6-1 you unequivocally don't want the new track because they just s/6.001 and a fun lab/6.01 and 6.02/; for 6-2 and 6-3 i'd be very wary; the first-time classes (and there are many kinds of first time here) tend to be really annoying

ntn

Wait for the kinks to be worked out.

cshiley

The first year of any curriculum change is full of bugs. Don't do it unless you've got a compelling reason.

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