<p>Also, what are some employment opportunities for incoming freshman who don’t want to work in the cafeterias or parking lots etc. We can’t become tutors be we need 90 units for that. Can’t work in labs yet. So, what other interesting things are there for us to do for financial support? Work study? What are the work study options.</p>
<p>As freshman, you have very little reputability and skills to offer to employers</p>
<p>If you want money, you’re most likely going to be working retail, food service, etc. until you start getting higher grades, make connections with staff and faculty, and/or get extremely lucky in open interview/job fairs.</p>
<p>I worked at Ventanas as a super for a year before quitting to get a job at a research lab–just about everyone has to pay their dues before they get a ‘nice’ job.</p>
<p>ratemyprofessors.com will give you more opinions than this forum can. just average all the scores by class, disregarding the professors (though for accuracy, you might only consider those who are teaching this fall).</p>
<p>and really … hard classes are NOT a bad thing. some of my favorite classes were the ones that i had to work the hardest in – you really learn the material, get to know and study with classmates/friends, see whether the profs can do their job well or not, etc.</p>
<p>Do they offer office jobs within departments? For example, couldn’t I do something for the chemistry department or physics department. Pick up calls, write or design for their publications. Anything besides working at the cafeterias, or other such retail jobs.</p>
<p>i did my fair share of retail before college too.</p>
<p>i had a job freshman year and i still have it now. it’s not in retail/food.</p>
<p>you can try and get a job filing papers or being a student helper if you’re proactive, have workstudy (employers like that) and are knowledgeable about chem dept rules and classes, if you work at the front desk of, say, the chem dept.</p>
<p>picking up calls…well, they’re always looking for people to make calls to ask for $$ from alumni. i get those emails all the time. they pay for training and pay like $9? an hour.</p>
<p>otherwise, just look up jobs on port triton. i can’t say that place has yielded great success for me though.</p>
<p>as for class difficulty, relative to each other:
BILD 1 - 2
Math 20A - 2
HUM 1 - n/a
Chem 6A - 2
Chem 6AH - n/a
LTWR 8A - n/a</p>
<p>yeah, they’re all 2’s (meaning i did not just get an A handed out to me like in some other classes). so what. they were all of the same difficulty. just try your hardest, and i agree with astrina, 3 of my 4 favorite classes so far were HARD. and they’re also my favorite professors too. and fyi, i got A’s in all of them because i studied HARD and learned lots.</p>
<p>if you thought hum was supposed to be easy, you may have been living under a rock … revelle and ERC are reputed to have the two hardest writing sequences.</p>
<p>I found MMW 1 to be the least interesting quarter (its a lot of anthropology and learning about ancient civilizations). However, it is the only quarter without a paper. Enjoy that unique aspect while you can.</p>
<p>That said, there is still a lot of reading involved. Its good practice for later classes though.</p>
<p>So far I’ve only asked about Chem 6ah and somebody didn’t want to expatiate. Something about how explaining would be futile because it wouldn’t deter me from taking the class. As if the explanation was only good for deciding whether or not I would take the class and not for say, “knowing thy enemy.”</p>
<p>the number of solid A’s dished out would probably make out to around 2%-3% getting that grade per lecture class. it could be higher, but it could also be lower – i’ve seen .6% in once instance ;]</p>