My school is releasing the fall schedule next week. But I’ve seen the schedules from Fall 2012, 13, and 14 already. The classes I plan to take have been offered at the same time with the same professor pretty much all 3 years so I have a good idea of what my schedule will look like.
The date the schedule is released is included in the academic calendar on the registrars website at my school, so you could look for something similar from your school.
My school doesn’t release the class times and professors until next week. I don’t care too much about the time or professor. I just want to get the classes right.
@preamble1776, I don’t think that there’s a universal time for the release of the schedule of courses, but I think most schools release it sometime in March/around spring break.
My school just released the final exam schedule, and I have just one final for finals week. This professor wanted to give his final during the last week of classes, but he said that someone told him that it wasn’t allowed. I was really hoping the final would be early in the week so that I can just get it done because I only have one final; it’s going to be open notes, so it’s not worth stressing over. I checked the schedule, and the final is Monday at 8am - the very first block of finals week! I was so surprised! With my luck, I was expecting it to fall on Thursday at 6pm, lol.
I’m just really looking forward to summer, now. I was talking with a friend who is going to take summer classes at a community college, and she said that they run about $300 a class, which really isn’t bad. I was thinking about taking a couple classes, but it would do more harm than good because I don’t have enough classes as it is to take in the spring.
Lol, time and professor for me seem to mean slightly more together than the class itself; I guess my reasoning is that I like essentially all of the courses offered in my major department; they all sound really interesting - so to be able to take a 9am class with a really good professor in say, Political Theory of Abraham Lincoln, would be more enticing than taking a 2pm class with a so-so professor in say, Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Peak rush hour in Boston begins at 3pm; so if I get out of class after that, I’m kinda screwed because the trains are packed like sardines and its just really unpleasant situation to be in for an hour to an hour and a half – so my first priority is to block my classes in the morning; last semester, all of my classes ended before noon and the commute home was wonderful. I might look into taking a one day a week class (3 hours) because that seems interesting too. I took a couple of community college courses my senior year of high school that were once a week and even though there was a lot of material covered per class section, there wasn’t the stress of constantly looming assignments every other night.
The schedule of courses finally came out, and of course I was pouring over the options available for me.
As of now, and this will most likely change between now and August 24th:
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I have a class at 10, a break for an hour, and then classes at 1 and 2.
On Tuesday and Thursday, I have a class at 12:20 - 1:55 (Stats plus lab) and a class from 2:00 - 3:15. I then have a 50 minute curriculum class on Tuesday nights.
This schedule leaves me with one Gen Ed to complete in the spring. I’m pretty happy with this so far.
I just won a scholarship through my school for 1,000 dollars. 
Because my normal scholarship covers all tuition and fees, I’m receiving it in the form of a refund check. 1,000 dollars. That’s like 4,000 chicken McNuggets. LOL.
@preamble1776 Congrats!!! 
My school released it’s schedule of classes for Fall, but registration (the first part) starts in April, I believe. Also, the schedule still says Fall 2014, haha. Looks like my earliest class will be at either 11 or 12.
@preamble1776: Wait, really? 4 chicken nuggets to a dollar? But then again, I haven’t set foot in a McDonalds since elementary school… But yeah, congrats!
My school’s released classes for the Fall (either that or I just happened to find them today) and I’m a little mad that there aren’t a lot of 8am and 9am sections of certain classes; I really don’t wanna take classes past noon.
@quidditchcat - Yep; I think they advertise a 20 piece special for 5 dollars all the time on iTunes radio.
There are two classes I absolutely have to take next semester (physics II + statics and dynamics). Both are only offered once… Statics/Dynamics is at 10AM and Physics II is at 3PM. Ugh.
I don’t really care if I have morning classes or afternoon classes, but I do like them all blocked together. I especially wanted that next year since I’ll be living off campus. But I guess that’s not going to happen now.
I’m having a tough time with courses registration because time conflicts. I have to take Structural Analysis but I’m hoping to take Matrix and Linear Algebra (the one that causes most time conflicts) and an Intro to Environmental Engineering course and a Highways course.
I’m planning on taking a graduate level course next spring in structural engineering. That should be very interesting.
I got my course schedule for Fall semester all figured out, went to my advising appointment… and then probably got the world’s best bomb dropped on me: I may be able to take a few summer courses and finish my degree a year early. It would’ve been nice if my advisor and I had figured that out last semester so I wouldn’t have applied for housing (which I’ll have to cancel and lose $150 if this all pans out), but better late than never, right?
It looks like I’ll be taking and arts course (required), Parent-Child Relationships, and maybe Abnormal Psychology if I end up in summer session. If that doesn’t end up happening, my Fall schedule has Intro to Art, Parent-Child Relationships, Human Motor Development, Human Development from Birth to Age 8, and Mythology (a filler course because I really am nearly out of requirements to complete and I don’t want to take THREE upper-level HD courses in one semester).
One of my professors told me that upper division classes in most humanities and social science fields are not necessarily far more demanding than lower division classes; she claims that it depends largely on the professor. I’m not too sure if this is true or not; I have two friends who are Pol Sci majors and they’re taking a 400 level class on Queer Political Theory and I don’t know how they’re faring (all they’ve said is that the class is “scary”).
I can see it depending a lot on the subject matter. I’d probably be bored to tears in queer political theory, so it’d be extremely hard; but throw me in Game Theory or something comparable and it wouldn’t even seem like work.
@Vctory - Game Theory as part of a Political Science/International Relations department or as part of a Computer Science department? I’m thinking it depends on the subject matter too; I’m looking at a 300 level class on the Arab-Israeli conflict that seems really interesting. My school’s Pol Sci dept offers a lot of classes regarding religion and politics (Islam and the Middle East, Fundamental Christianity and Conservatism, etc) that I really wanna take; they’re all upper level too. They probably wouldn’t be nearly as demanding as the Queer Pol Theory class. (I’m not a fan of Gender Studies classes anyways – I’m in a Gender Studies class currently as an honors college requirement and it is weirdly more demanding than all of my other classes)
Sometimes I feel like lower div classes are there to gauge people’s interest. With the exception of CS, I find the lower divs to be a pain and incredibly boring. But then again, I’m only basing this off my experience with sitting in/taking classes in English, Linguistics, Math, and Chemistry…
^ I agree for the most part, but last semester I took a 100-level philosophy class, and I thought it was interesting.
I took a 100 level arts course last semester and I now don’t completely hate the arts =/
I really want to take a summer class or two, but they cost around $1,600 per three-credit class at my school. I could take them at a community college for $300. It would be nice to get ahead.
Since the winter weather has finally broken (and hopefully stays that way), I started thinking about last year. When the weather started getting warmer last year, my senioritis really started acting up, lol. I was so giddy about starting college. It’s hard to believe that I am almost done with my freshman year.
Do you guys have any plans for the summer besides possible summer classes? I am going on vacation in the middle of July; we haven’t gone on vacation since the end of my freshman year of high school, so I’m looking forward to that.