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There's pace and then there's content covered. Let me tell you, MIT's EECS undergraduate curriculum is fast paced and hard, and I assume they cover more ground than the ArsDigita University did (even subtracting the general requirements that don't overlap with an EECS degree).

I think 10 months is just too little time to absorb enough (and some "downtime" in e.g. a humanities course per term can be a blessing). MIT very strongly believes they need more than 4 years and established a 5 year MEng program that many if not most graduates take advantage of.

Perhaps a more narrow goal? (And I'll note that MIT is teaching everyone in the department some EE with the CS (and visa versa); less so with the new curriculum, although today the vast majority of EECS undergraduates go for the combined EECS major instead of the ones that focus on EE or CS.)