armavirumque

Might as well pitch in ...

Fall:

FRS 133 (20th Century Poetry)
LAT 105
MAT 201 (multi-var calc)
PHY 103

Spring:

ENG 344 (Modern British Poetry)
LAT 108
LIN 211 (human language)
MAT 214 (intro number theory)
WRI 112 (Modern identity)

tokyorevelation9

hey sucharita...

I'm really interested in taking Integ. Intro to the Natural Sciences sequence, and I'm looking to be an EEB Major as well, but I don't think I have the necessary physics background to take it this year. Do you think it is worth it to take general physics frosh year and then start the sequence my sophomore year, or is that a bad idea? Tell me what you think.

Tokyo

ec1234

you can't take the freshman course sophomore year if you have taken physics, as thats one of the classes that integrated covers. You oculd however take physics, chem, and computer science and take the second year of integrated science

An0nym0u5

yo, so i went in leaning towards econ, but prepping for BSE:

fall:
WRI146: Moral Responsibility in American Foreign Policy (thumbs down)
ECO101: Macroeconomics (thumbs up)
MAT203: Advanced Multivariable (DON'T DO THIS, TAKE 201!)
PHY103: General Physics I (required for BSEs, not fun)
JPN101: Introduction to Japanese (too much after the top 4, dropped at midterms)

Decided to be an ELE, w/ certs in Finance, Materials Science, hopefully WWS,
Spring:
MAT202: Linear Algebra (Required, not bad)
PHY104: Gen Physics II (required, a pain)
AAS391: Race, Class, and Intelligence in America (repetitive, but easy)
COS126: Java Programming (Good course)
ORF245: Engineering Statistics (boring as hell, but meets a ton of reqs, if you're not BSE, take a diff stats course)

ramaesch

fall 04:

ENG 310 Shakespeare I
COS 109 computers in our world (highly recommend for non-math types to fulfill math requirement)
PHI 203 Intro to Metaphysics and Epistemology (terrific--made me wanna be a philosophy major)
WRI ?? Cultural Wars in a PHilosophical Context

spring 05:

COM 206 Masterworks of European Literature (TON of reading)
PHI 384 PHilosophy of Law (absolutely amazing!)
PSY 101 Intro to Psychology (thought it would be a blow-off but it wasn't)
POL 303 MOdern Political Theory

now I'm a Slavic Languages and Literatures major... just goes to show that it's okay to experiment freshman year--don't have to take a bunch of courses in your intended major.

enjeneer

Fall '05:
MAT104 - meh
PHY103 - so with ivyboy, here, I hated this class.
CHM207 - This was my favorite class of the year, the profs are awesome (Cava is the CHM dept head, and won a teaching award this year) and it is gennerally a lot of fun
FRS103 - not offered

Spring '06:
HIS383 - excellent, Kruse is amazing
WRI106 - Contemporary Am. Prose - excellent as well
MOL214 - I didn't like it very much, but again ivyboy hit the nail on the head with this one in terms of exams
CHM202 - I enjoyed it, but it is the only option

Voovi16

Chemical Engineering major here, minor in Environmental Studies:

Fall 05:
CHM 303--Organic Chemistry
MAT 201- Multivar
WRI 122- Culture of Consumption
HIS 211- Europe From Antiquity to 1700

Spring 06:
CHM 304- Organic Chemistry II
MAT 202- Lin Alg
SOC 317- Globalization of Culture
COS 126- Intro to Comp Sci

Any future BSE's--the BEST thing you can POSSIBLY do for yourself in the first week of your math class is FIND A PROFESSOR that speaks English. It took me 4 tries before finding one (for MAT 203, then I dropped to 201) that I could 100% understand. It makes a world of difference.

I had a ton of AP credits from math, chem and physics so that's why my frosh schedule is somewhat atypical of a BSE.

If you have the option of placing out of physics, do it in a heartbeat. At first I was unsure, thinking that it might be good to get a little refresher, see if Princeton covered anything new, but halfway through the first semester everyone was complaining so much about 103.

There is a huge, huge difference between taking your writing seminar in the fall versus in the spring. If you have it in the fall, you get fall break, thanksgiving break, winter break, and other little 3-day weekends to catch up on your 4 major essays (believe me, you're going to need it). You don't have any of that in the spring, except spring break, and it makes writing sem a whole lot more unbearable. If you get assigned to writing sem in the spring, I would highly recommend switching to the fall, usually they let you.

BSE's--Beware, beware, beware of COS 126 and the curve. After your first semester, you'll be somewhat used to getting an 85ish in a class and that being an A- or an A with the curve. In COS 126, it's actually, seriously, a B. The ability levels range so much in this class, from first-time programmers to experienced ones, that there are people who actually get 100's on every test and programming assignment (a rarity at Princeton). Your success in 126 is mostly dependent on whether you get a good preceptor or not. The first day, mine walked in and said "I don't know JAVA either, so we'll be learning together." That should have been a huge red flag for me, but for some reason I never bothered to find another precept. Another thing--don't ever be afraid to question your preceptor. One time, I asked for an extension on a programming assignment, and my preceptor said no, not without a point deduction. But a friend of mine had gotten several, w/o point deductions, from his preceptor for the same class. I went directly to the head professor (kind of daunting at first), and asked him to consider it, and he overruled my preceptor, telling him that he should have given me an extension. It's easy to get kind of complacent and assume everyone above you is always correct at Princeton.

amnesia

thanks!....

daman11

more more more

Voovi16

Fall 06: (Sophomore)
ENV 201A - Intro to Environmental Studies
PHI 201- Intro to Logic
MOL 215- Intro to Cell & Molecular Bio
CHE 245- Intro to Chemical Engineering Principles
HIS 292 - Science in the Modern World

Spring 07:
CHE 246 - Thermodynamics
CHE 250 - Bioseparations
MAE 305 - Differential Equations
CEE 303 - Intro to Environmental Engineering
ENV 202A - Intro to Environmental Studies

albert87

hey, princetonians from the class of 2010.

Any advice you want to give to a BSE freshman?

Thanks

albert87

can someone tell me about the engineering department's integrated engineering program? is it worth taking?

thanks in advance

albert87

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albert87

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Voovi16

The integrated engineering program, called EMP, is the replacement for your freshman year math and physics program (PHY 103/104 and MAT 201, I believe). They combined them so that you can learn in a more multi-disciplinary way. EMP, in the spring semester, also spends a lot of time doing cool engineering projects to give you a taste of each engineering discipline (i.e., making solar panels, making a car, etc.). I've heard the program is pretty good, definitely hard, but I haven't heard that it's extraordinary or anything. So it's not like it will make or break your engineering education.