'08ers, you willing to answer some questions?

tunanfish
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:31:03 +0000

IMO you should pick almost solely based on professor for classes in general. One of my friends is in “a Biography of Energy” – she took it thinking it would be a good QR – but she now hates it. Other people I know picked courses based more on course topic than professor, while I chose more on professor and course reviews, and I’m much happier right now.

Also, with regard to major, I think it’s a good idea to take a variety of courses your first semester – in fact, they ban you from taking two courses from the same department as a freshman, I think. I see too many people taking prerequisites to be an Econ major with a finance certificate the first semester of their freshman year; when I ask them how they’re so certain they want to do it as a major, they respond that they just know they want to do it – how!!! Without taking a smattering of courses early, you’ll never know which fields you truly find interesting. College history is not the same as high school; college psych is not the same as high school psych. This is one of the reasons I took the HUM Sequence – it exposes me to a lot of different books, fields, and guest professors. I now am pretty sure I don’t want to be a religion major, but I might now consider Classics more than I would before.

TN